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Simon Boswell (born 15 October 1956) 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, 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 1956. He studied at The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and English literature at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Playing the guitar since age 12, 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. Boswell more recently composed for and produced the album "Alma Mater", featuring Pope Benedict XVI.

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.

Film credits

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

1. "The Fantastique Film Music of Simon Boswell". 18 June 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2010.
2. ^ "Simon Boswell on Movie Music UK". 2008. Archived from the original on 13 January 2010. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
3. "Nino Buonocore YAYA Cover Image". discogs.com. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
4. ^ "HotHouse Music". HotHouse Music. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2009.
5. "Classic FM - Alma Mater Receives First UK Performance". Global Radio 2010. 7 December 2009. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
6. Enzo Giannelli. "Boswell, Simon". Gino Castaldo (edited by). Dizionario della canzone italiana. Curcio Editore, 1990. p. 205.
7. ^ "Simon Boswell on IMDb". IMDb. Retrieved 3 December 2009.

External links

• Official website
• HotHouse Music Archived 26 November 2020 at the Wayback Machine
• Simon Boswell at IMDb
• Simon Boswell discography at Discogs

• People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School
• 1956 births
• Living people
• English conductors (music)
• British male conductors (music)
• English film score composers
• English male film score composers
• 21st-century British conductors (music)
• 21st-century British male musicians
• Varèse Sarabande Records artists
• Composers from London