| Name:
| Andrew Claxton
| | Skills:
| Composer, Player, Teacher (composer, keyboards, piano, tubas)
| | Phone:
| +44 (0)1865 865654
| | Address:
| Ivony, Cumnor Hill, Oxford OX2 9JA, United Kingdom
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| | Award winning composer with private professional studio. Winner Oxford Town Hall Centenary Composers Competition 1997. Finalist 1998 British Television Advertising Craft Awards. Many documentary scores for BBC1, BBC2 Ch4, Arts & Entertainment Network (USA) including Fragile Earth, Dispatches, Secret History, Horizon, Inside Story. Art/feature films, concert/stage works, events/multimedia, albums.
Distinctive, cross-cultural, post-modern style incorporating elements from past and present. Known for and strongly characterised by habitual use of ALPHONIC techniques (see Grove's 2000). Some recent projects: Health Education Authority immunisation advert 98- , 'Drug Raped' BBC1 Inside Story Aug 98, 'Polygamy' A&E autumn 99, 'The Forbidden Journey' BBC2 (special) autumn 99, 'Silent Spaces' Wendy Ryans's art-film Bologna Sept 99, 'Honk' London Jazz Festival Nov 99.
Also an accomplished performer (eg M.Mus in Performance). Keyboards, piano, tubas. Recorded/toured with Dead Can Dance 1987-93, Peacock Epoch 87- , Meltdown 98- , Gintare 99- .
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