Oliver Kraus

Oliver Kraus born 1970 in Shepherd's Bush, London, is an English musician best known for his work as a cellist and string arranger/ producer and composer for film and television.

String Arrangements & Performance

As an Arranger Oliver has written and arranged strings for:

• Beth Orton's album, Trailer Park^[1]
• Ash's album, Free All Angels
• Tom McRae
• Duffy's debut album, Rockferry
• Sia's album, Some People Have Real Problems
• "Bound to You" from the Burlesque soundtrack
• Other artists include Alexi Murdoch, BellX1, Cary Brothers, Christina Aguilera, Gomez, Jay Brannan, Joshua Radin, Lifehouse, Liz Phair, Mandy Moore, Marc Almond, Meiko, My Life Story, The View, The Weepies, Thea Gilmore, Tracey Thorn, Priscilla Ahn, and Rachael Yamagata
• Ben Ottewell's album, Shapes and Shadows, released 2011
• Complete List

Film and television

As a Composer Oliver has written music for film and television with frequent collaboration with Cure drummer, Jason Cooper.

Film

• Eclipse dir. David Slade, song My Love co-written with Sia Furler, produced by Oliver Kraus, 2010
• From Within, dir. Phedon Papamichael, 2008 winner of Grand Jury Award for Best Music Score at the Solstice Film Festival
• Joybells, dir. Mike Hawley, 2007 (to view a portion of this documentary, http://www.joybells.co.uk/2009/11/joybells-dvd/)
• The Power of the Game, dir. Michael Apted, 2007
• Spiderhole, dir. Daniel Simpson, 2009
• The Uninvited, dir. Daniel Simpson, 1999
• h dir, Daniel Simpson 1995
• Handle With Care, dir, Alexis Bowler & Sandy Hunt, WWF 1992, Awards: Winner Best Children’s Program at Chicago International Children's Film Festival; New England Children's Film festival; British Animation Week, National Film Theatre, London; Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Television

• Meercats Natural World BBC 2 2003
• What's the Big Idea Series Discovery Ch 2004
• Cheetahs Natural World BBC 2 2005
• The Battle with my Brain Despatches C4 2005
• Toki's Tale Natural World BBC 2 2007
• Macintyre Investigates Series BBC 1 2002-3
• Whistleblowers Series BBC 1 2004-6
• Dogfighting Panorama BBC 1 2007

Notes

1. ^ McCormick, Moira (6 June 2003). "Orton rises above the crowd". Chicago Tribune. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/123244561.html?dids=123244561:123244561&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun+06%2C+2002&author=Moira+McCormick+Special+to+the+Tribune&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Orton+rises+above+the+crowd&pqatl=google. Retrieved 27 August 2011. 

References

• IMDB
• Twilight Eclipse, My Love Interview
• From Within Composers Award, June 19–21, 2008 in St. Paul, Minneapolis". Solstice Film Festival
• String Arrangement and Performance Credits on Artist Direct

External links

• http://www.myspace.com/oliverkraus

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