Paul Lewis(V)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Mesmerized by the magical possibilities of combining music and the
moving image, Paul Lewis composed his first score for a major British
TV drama at the age of twenty, shortly after his appointment as
Assistant Musical Adviser to ABC Television. Three years later he
happily resigned his administrative post to become a full-time composer
and has for three decades produced an unending stream of orchestral and
instrumental TV scores, production library music and concert and
chamber works, as well as restoring three mediæval houses in his spare
time. He now lives in a Victorian town house by the sea in Hove with a
beach hut on the prom, and is still mesmerized by the possibilities of
combining music and the moving image. Paul's TV work encompasses drama
of all types: romantic, horror, costume and comedy, as well as
children's series, wildlife, features, animation and commercials.
Overseas sales of many of these programmes have made Paul's music
familiar to millions of viewers around the world. Paul is an
enthusiastic conductor of his work, both in the recording studio and in
the concert hall. Concert works and chamber music, always ebulliently
optimistic and unashamedly romantic, are a vital part of his output.
His orchestral works appear on CD alongside the music of other English
composers such as Sir Malcolm Arnold, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, Holst
and Delius.
