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.

Credits

Filmography 2024 Oddity 2020 Caveat 2011 Moby Dick 2006 Almost Heaven 2005 The Call of the Toad A Good Woman 2004 Tempesta 2003 Grand Theft Parsons 2002 To Kill a King 2000 Children of the Holocaust 1998 La Coupe de la Gloire (Official World Cup Movie) 1997 Basil 1992 The Bridge 1986 Born American 1983 Rush Hour 1980 Beastly Treatment

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

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