“Sail on a Sunset” from Revealing Beauty album used in the highest earning Russian film of all time!
Yes, multi award winning 2017 Russian film “Three Seconds” uses music from the Revealing Beauty album, several years after the theme first appeared in the BBC series “Francesco’s Mediterranean Voyage”. The film has grossed over $66,000,000 at the box office! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5987402
News – August 2011
Chris has finally completed scoring two major series – The 5 part BBC1 ‘Landmark’ series, “Empire” presented by Jeremy Paxman, which is scheduled for broadcast in October 2011, and “The Queen’s Palaces” presented by Fiona Bruce, a 3 part BBC1 series which begins on Monday 12 Sept 2011 at 9:00 pm. Chris has also been writing and producing songs for various artists.
Music composed by Chris recently appeared in several other BBC programmes, including:
How do You Solve a Problem Like Lolita?
Lost – The Mystery of Flight 447
Victoria: A Royal Love Story
The Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece
Gods & Monsters: Homer’s Odyssey
Treasures of the Anglo Saxons
Film 2010
Springwatch
Universal Publishing Production Music has licensed several of Chris’s works – some of the above placements resulted from this, as did recent use by The Disney Channel.
East West, creators of many of the world’s finest sample libraries chose a piece by Chris called “Prayer For the Dying” as a demo for their incredible Hollywood Strings library. You can listen to the track here.
I have been passionate about music from a very young age, playing both classical piano and violin since I was seven years old. During my teens I spent hours at the piano working out how to play songs that I liked... whether they were Pop, Rock or R&B. Writing songs followed naturally, while at the same time I was discovering quality film music by masters such as John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith. This inspired me to learn to compose for film and television. In 1990, a top BBC producer/director, John B Hobbs, was impressed enough to give me a chance at scoring the series "Mulberry", starring Geraldine McEwan. The passion for scoring to picture grew stronger, and the journey continues...