Simon Boswell

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.

Early life 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, 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.

Career 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".

In Autumn 2006, his album Close Your Eyes was released on his own Flick Records

Television 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

Discography 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