Marc Wilkinson

Marc Wilkinson
Born	27 July 1929 (1929-07-27) (age 82) Paris, France
Nationality	Australian
Field	musical composition

Marc Wilkinson (born in Paris, France, on 27 July 1929) is an Australian composer and conductor best known for his film scores and music for the theatre. For most of his life resident in the UK, his approach has combined traditional techniques with elements of the avant-garde. Now retired from composition, he currently lives in France.

Biography

Born in Paris, Wilkinson studied composition at Columbia and Princeton Universities; he also took some private lessons with Varèse in New York.^[1] For a time he was resident composer and musical director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, then musical director of the National Theatre (1966 – 74).

Works

Film scores:

'If....' (1968)
'The Royal Hunt of the Sun' (1969)
'Play for Today' (TV series) (1970–79)
– The Lie (1970)
– Blue Remembered Hills (1979)
'Blood on Satan's Claw' (1971)
'Family Life' (1971)
'The Darwin Adventure' (1972)
'The Man and the Snake (short)' (1972)
'The Triple Echo' (1972)
'Eagle in a Cage' (1972)
'I The Return' (short) (1973)
'The Hireling' (1973)
'Philadelphia, Here I Come' (1975)
'Days of Hope' (TV mini-series) (1975)
– 1926: General Strike (1975) (19)
– 1924 (1975) – 1921 (1975) – 1916: Joining Up (1975) 'The Morning Spider' (short) (1976)
'The Mango Tree' (1977)
'The Quatermass Conclusion' (1979)
'Quatermass' (TV series) (1979)
- An Endangered Species (1979)
– What Lies Beneath (1979)
– Lovely Lightning (1979)
– Ringstone Round (1979)
'1979 Eagle's Wing' (1979)
'The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980)
'Hammer House of Horror'(TV series) (1980)
– Visitor from the Grave (1980) 'Very Like a Whale' (TV movie)(1981)
'Looks and Smiles' (1981)
'Tales of the Unexpected' (TV series) (1981–88)
– The Way to Do It (1981) – The Skeleton Key (1982)
– The Absence of Emily (1982)
– A Harmless Vanity (1982)
– A Time to Die (1988)
'A Voyage Round My Father' (TV movie) (1982)
'The Bell' (TV series) (1982)
– Episode #1.4 (1982)
– Episode #1.3 (1982)
– Episode #1.2 (1982)
– Episode #1.1 (1982)
'Enigma' (1983)
'All for Love' (TV series) (1982-3)
– A Dedicated Man (1982)
– Mrs. Silly (1983)
'The Case of the Frightened Lady' (TV movie) (1983)
'Kim' (TV movie) (1984)
'Coming Through' (TV movie) (1985)
'1987 Screen Two' (TV series) (1987)
– Visitors (1987)
'Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV series) (1987)
– Wolf to the Slaughter: Part One (1987)
'A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China or: Surface Is Illusion But So Is Depth (documentary) (1988)
'Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead' (1990)

References

1. ^ http://moviemusicitaliano.webs.com/britishcomposers.htm

External links

• Review of Wilkinson's soundtrack for 'Blood on Satan's Claw'

Persondata
Name	Wilkinson, Mark
Alternative names
Short description	Artist, Illustrator
Date of birth	3 October 1952
Place of birth	Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of death
Place of death