Richard G. Mitchell

Richard G Mitchell is an English composer of music primarily for movies and television.

Mitchell was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Preston, Lancashire. He attended Hutton Grammar School and later St Martins School of Art in the late 1970s where he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Was awarded an Ivor Novello Award and is best known for scoring the movies: To Kill a King, Grand Theft Parsons, A Good Woman and the 1996 BBC period TV series The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Original Scores
Mitchell is an English composer best known for his writing and arranging period movie scores for choir and orchestra, though his compositions span a very wide range of styles varying from classical to more contemporary electronic genres such as drum and bass and trip hop. He also has a reputation for working in a diverse range of world music styles, such as the Tibetan score for Nick Gray's Escape from Tibet in contrast to a country and western pedal steel guitar-based score for Grand Theft Parsons, successful with film music critics at the 2004 Sundance Festival.

His original score for To Kill a King in 2004 continued his successful relationship with director Mike Barker, for whom he scored A Good Woman in 2005, and later the Sea Wolf in 2008, followed by Moby Dick.

His score for the film Trial by Fire won an Ivor Novello Award in 2000 and the BBC period drama The Tenant of Wildfell Hall won Best Score at the Royal Television Society Awards in 1998.

In 2005, Mitchell composed the music for The Call of the Toad, written by Günter Grass and directed by Robert Gliński. The score was recorded with the Polish Symphony Orchestra, and nominated for a Polish Academy Award.

Other commissions
Aside from composing original scores for Film, Mitchell has scored music for Theatre Productions and Live Events which include the Opening Ceremony for Euro '96 at Wembley Stadium. He was commissioned to write the score for one-man theatre show Ousama with Nadim Sawalha directed by Corin Redgrave at the Brixton Shaw Theatre, and a jazz suite for the Francis Bacon Retrospective Exhibition at the Tate Britain in 2008.

Filmography
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 * Oddity
 * Caveat
 * Moby Dick
 * Almost Heaven
 * The Call of the Toad
 * A Good Woman
 * Tempesta
 * Grand Theft Parsons
 * To Kill a King
 * Children of the Holocaust
 * La Coupe de la Gloire (Official World Cup Movie)
 * Basil
 * The Bridge
 * Born American
 * Rush Hour
 * Beastly Treatment

Original Soundtrack Albums
2012 2009 2006 2003 2001 1998 1996 1992
 * Moby Dick
 * Sea Wolf
 * A Good Woman
 * To Kill a King
 * Grand Theft Parsons
 * The Glass
 * Invasion: Earth
 * The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
 * The Bridge

Television Work
2009 2006 2005 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986
 * Sea Wolf
 * Perfect Day: The Millennium
 * How to Have a Good Death
 * Class of '76
 * The Stepfather
 * Helen West
 * The Glass
 * True Originals ("Latika Rana")
 * Brits Abroad
 * Where There's Smoke
 * Trial by Fire
 * Trauma Team
 * QED
 * Get Real
 * Invasion: Earth
 * Coast to Coast
 * Escape From Tibet
 * Bridget Jones Diary
 * Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction
 * The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (3 episodes)
 * Euro 96 Opening Ceremony
 * Harry
 * SuperMax (First Tuesday)
 * Stolen Brides (Network First)
 * Scotland Yard
 * Brat Pack
 * Cluedo
 * MasterChef
 * War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
 * Across the Lake
 * Seoul Olympic Theme
 * Worlds Beyond
 * Truckers
 * In The Footsteps Of Scott

Awards

 * Won  Ivor Novello Award for "Trial By Fire" (2000)
 * Nominated  Polish Academy Award for "The Call of the Toad" (2005)
 * Nominated  Royal Television Society Award for "The Glass" (2001)
 * Won  Royal Television Society Award for "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
 * Won  The New York Film and TV Festival best original score for "Rush Hour" (1985)