Simon Boswell
English composer, conductor, and musician (born 1953)
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| name | Simon Boswell |
| background | non_performing_personnel |
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| origin | London, England, United Kingdom |
| genre | Film score |
| occupation | Composer, conductor, musician, producer |
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| name = Simon Boswell | background = non_performing_personnel | birth_date = | origin = London, England, United Kingdom | genre = Film score | occupation = Composer, conductor, musician, producer | website = Simon Boswell (born 15 October 1953) is an English film score composer, conductor, producer and musician. His body of work includes over 100 credits.
He was nominated for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Original Television Music for the drama series The Lakes, the Anthony Asquith Film Award for Best Original Film Music for the film Hardware and was nominated for a Goya Award for Best Original Score for the film Perdita Durango.
Biography
Early years
Boswell was born in London in 1953. He studied at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and English literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
Playing the guitar since age 12,{{cite web | url = http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2009/06/the-fantastique-film-music-of-simon-boswell/ | title = The Fantastique Film Music of Simon Boswell | publisher = | authorlink = Randall Larson | date = 18 June 2009 | accessdate = 9 February 2010}} he was an accomplished guitarist and was signed by Transatlantic Records in 1975 whilst still at college. This led to the release of his first solo album, "The Mind Parasites", a collection of contemporary acoustic songs and instrumentals.
He formed the band Advertising in 1977. Boswell later became a record producer both in the United Kingdom and Italy. He produced Renato Zero's album and album of Nino Buonocore.
Film scoring
Boswell's film career started in 1985, and since then he has countless awards from around the world and has been nominated twice for a BAFTA award.
Boswell has also worked on two projects with the Vatican. "Santo Subito" was his first project, which was a film collaboration setting the speeches and the singing of Pope John Paul II to Boswell's music and visuals.{{cite web | url = http://www.hot-house-music.com/ | title = HotHouse Music | publisher = HotHouse Music | date = | accessdate = 3 November 2009 | archive-date = 26 November 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20201126105201/http://www.hot-house-music.com/ | url-status = dead Boswell more recently composed for and produced the album "Alma Mater", featuring Pope Benedict XVI.{{cite web | url = http://www.classicfm.co.uk/music/music-news-and-features/alma-mater-receives-first-uk-performance/ | title = Classic FM - Alma Mater Receives First UK Performance | publisher = Global Radio 2010 | date = 7 December 2009 | accessdate = 10 February 2010}}
Television scoring
Boswell has composed for BAFTA nominated TV series The Lakes, and collaborated with film-maker Brian Hill and poet Simon Armitage on "Pornography: The Musical" and "Songbirds".
Other music
Boswell has worked with musicians from bands such as Blur, Orbital, The Sex Pistols and Echo And The Bunnymen. In 1982 he produced and arranged the album Via Tagliamento 1965-1970 for the Renato Zero. His credits as arranger and producer includes albums by Amii Stewart, Tony Esposito, Tullio De Piscopo and Nino Buonocore.
In Autumn 2006, his album Close Your Eyes was released on his own Flick Records
Quote: "I cut up my previous scores into bits and re-assembled them as new songs mixing full orchestra with musicians from Blur and The Kills and spoken word parts for some of the actors and directors I have worked with along the way – including Ewan McGregor, Ray Winstone, Goran Visnij, Dario Argento and Alejandro Jodorowsky."
Art
Boswell continues to work on an art project called BLINK!, an audio-visual installation looped to last forever of portraits extracted from news footage, and individually scored with their own soundtracks. This was first exhibited at the ICA in London in 2002 on 4 simultaneous cinema-sized screens.
Personal life
He married and divorced, having had a son named Jack; he lived with the actress Lysette Anthony and has a son by her, Jimi, born in 2004. In 2008 Jimi was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis. Simon is now married to the contemporary fine artist Lg White who is also the lead singer in his band 'The And', who are performing Simon's film score's Live.
Film credits
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TV credits
2007
- Tin Man
- Nearly Famous (6 episodes)
- Catwalk Dogs 2006
- Jackanory (2 episodes)
- The Magician of Samarkand
- Muddle Earth 2004
- Sea of Souls (2 episodes) 2003
- Pornography: The Musical 2002
- Widows 2001
- Mind Games 2000
- Jason and the Argonauts 1999
- Tube Tales (segment "Bone") 1998
- Killer Net
Other music credits
2004
- In My Father's Den - Music Recordist 2003
- Octane - Soundtrack Producer 1999
- Women Talking Dirty - Music Arranger
- The Debtors - Conductor 1998
- Cousin Bette - Music Arranger and Producer 1994
- Second Best - Music Arranger
- Burn:Cycle - Soundtrack Producer 1987
- Fino alla morte (TV) - Music Arranger
References
References
- (2008). "Simon Boswell on Movie Music UK".
- "Nino Buonocore YAYA Cover Image".
- Enzo Giannelli. "Boswell, Simon". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. p. 205.
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