David Hewson (composer)

David Graham Hewson is a British composer of scores for television and films.

Hewson began composing at the age of 11, influenced by his primary school music education, which had been based entirely on the Schulwerk. This influence stayed with David and shaped a lot of his much later music. During his time in primary school, he also started to receive piano lessons from the renowned classical concert pianist and teacher Christine Gough.

In his late teens he studied composition with Professor Richard Arnell, a former pupil of John Ireland at Trinity College of Music, London, and enrolled in a part time courses on electronic music with Tristram Cary at the Royal College of Music. After gaining his B.Ed (Hon) he taught music for six years, and during this time built up a large repertoire of compositions, for chamber solo and instrumental combinations including vocal music.

Compositions

Hewson now works from his own fully computerised composing studio in East Sussex where he pursues a full-time job as a composer.

His television commissions have covered a wide spectrum. He is mostly called upon to score Drama-Documentary, particularly covering human aspects and emotional content. He is one of the most prolific writers for film and television in the country. His KPM Library music CDs are used all over the world to score an enormous variety of productions.

Overview of works

Theme tunes

*"The Selina Scott Show"
*"First Edition" (channel 4)
*"English Villages" (Reader's Digest)
*"The U-Boat War" (Discovery Channel)
*"If I Ruled the World" (BBC)
*"The Storm" (Channel 4)
*"Two the Ends of the Earth" (Discovery)
*"Mysteries of the Mummies" (Discovery)
*"Homicide in Kennewick" (Channel 4 Equinox)
*"The Windsor's" (Channel 4)
*"In the Footsteps of Elizabeth David" (Arts and Entertainment channel)
*"Hunting Hitler" (Arts and Entertainment channel)
*"A Biography of Princess Margaret" (Channel 5)
*"Air Rage" (Channel 5)
*"James Bulger" (Channel 5)
*"Talk TV" (Channel 5)
*"24 Hour News" (ITN)
*"Self Experimenters" (Channel 4 Equinox)
*"History of the Future"
*"Lifeline" (Carlton)
*"Election 2001" (ITV)
*"Don Roaming" (Channel 4)
*"The Michael Watson Story"
*"Search for the Nort West Passage" (Channel 4)
*"Blitz" (Channel 4)
*"I Shouldn't be Alive" (Discovery Channel)
*"Howard's way" (BBC)
*"Eastenders"
*"Morley Brothers" (Channel 4)
*"Heaven Man Earth" (Channel 4)
*"Six Into One" (Channel 4)
*"The MTM Story" (Channel 4)
*"The Scars of War" (Channel 4)
*"Police Action Live" (ITV)
*"Century"
*"Willie's War"
*"Speed Kings"

John Halas films

*"Dilemma"
*"Doctor in the Sky"
*"Toulouse Lautrec"
*"The Light of the World"

Albums

*"The Science of Uncertainty"

Concerts

*"concertos for oboe"
*"War God II at St. John's Smith Square, London" (contributor)
*"Twenty-Four Hours in TT Scale" (Co-writer with Richard Arnell)

External links

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