Studio Orchestrations

16/08/2024

Out today on . Pleasure, as always, to orchestrate for Alastair King and his team, this time for composer Rupert Gregson-Williams. 🙏🏻🎹🎼 [Paul]

08/08/2024

Delighted (the right word for a Crime / Horror film?) to provide as part of Jehan Stefan Service team to Herdís Stefánsdóttir for the highly anticipated M. Night Shyamalan , out tomorrow in UK .

The is loosely inspired by Operation Flagship, an elaborate 1985 sting operation by the U.S. Marshals Service’s Fugitive Investigative Strike Team, where F.I.S.T. invited over 5,000 fugitives to a faked American Football game.

I can confirm that no string instruments were harmed in the performance of all the , unsettling required during the of the . 😬🤣

07/06/2024

Hi Everyone - we’re so excited to share our new Studio Orchestrations music catalogue, with over 150 titles to buy or hire (click the link in the first comment). Please take a look and let us know what you think in the comments - there’s plenty for every occasion, including those of you who are already thinking about Christmas!

08/04/2024

Always great to for Guy Farley, this time for a cute family story I can definitely relate to! As an aside, I also happen to drive VW...! 😁

Life never stops surprising us. With the new Tiguan, you're prepared for pretty much anything. vehicle displayed shows op...

24/12/2023

You need music to stuff the turkey (or nut roast) to at 9pm tonight, you say? How kind of my friends BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jamie MacDougall and Roderick Dunk to provide such exquisite musical accompaniment on BBC Radio Scotland! (Have a listen out for my Christmas Celebration Overture then too!). Repeated on at 6:30am (when the kids will have already been up for a few hours and you need your first mulled beverage and 🎄 Merry Christmas everyone and wishing you all a peaceful and blessed 😇 2024 (broadcast link in the first commenf)

10/11/2023

It's taken me almost four years to reach this point. A lot of hard work and determination has made this possible. This album consists of completely original music written by myself, arranged by Paul Campbell, and performed by the Ulster Orchestra. I also had the pleasure of mixing this album, something I love doing.
I know some people roll their eyes and think, 'Phil, get back to making some techno.' Weirdly, I still think of this as 'techno,' a bit like punk music. For me, the most interesting stuff develops over time, like punk developing into post-punk and its experimental offshoots. I think it's important not to stick to one idea for too long and keep trying new things. Seeing something grow from small sketches and brainstorms into something on this scale gives me great joy, and it's challenges like this that keep me going.
I'd like to express my huge thanks to Patrick McCarthy for making this possible. The Ulster Orchestra has been very good to me, and I hope to work with them a lot more in the future. Also, thanks to The Strand Arts Centre for providing me with a creative home for the last five years.
I would love it if you could please take a moment to check the link for various ways of checking the album, you can watch the full visual show on YouTube, just follow the link here.
https://linktr.ee/philkieran

16/09/2023

Hi Everyone, Just a brief note to say that we have deactivated our "formerly known as Twitter" account. We'll still be around on here and . Hope you're having a great weekend! 😎

28/08/2023

Very proud and honoured to have my Game of Thrones medley featuring in the BBC proms at the Royal Albert hall tonight with the BBC concert orchestra. It will feature on BBC radio, BBC sounds, iplayer and be shown on BBCTV this coming Saturday night.

Hope some of our FB friends might tune in for a listen or watch

(John Langley)

The Prom will also be broadcast on BBC Two on Saturday 2 September at 7.50pm for an edited version titled Fantasy Film Music at the Proms

16/08/2023

Time to let the cat out of the bag:

my Game of Thrones medley is to make its proms debut at this sold out event Monday bank holiday August 28th.

The 8 minute piece was licensed by Hal Leonard/Universal publishing recently and will be played by our friends at the BBC concert orchestra.

It’s always an honour (and definitely never routine) to have a chart played at the proms and this is a big deal for me.

Studio orchestrations have been very honoured to have opportunities to contribute and collaborate for the proms (as well as proms in the park in various cities). Business partner Paul Campbell’s Auld lang syne is now played annually at every Last night of the proms, he also had a couple of charts commissioned and played in the 2018 folk prom and we both worked on the opening 5 Argentinian tangos of the inaugural Tango prom the same year so we have much to be thankful to the BBC music and proms teams for.

With choir and orchestra (and even some quartertones) this GOT medley however is my largest and most ambitious project for the proms to date and will be played on both radio and TV.

If you have a chance or a moment, please do check it out….. (and Paul’s Auld Lang Syne a couple of weeks after that).

Encounter music from The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones and other titles in a Prom celebrating soundtracks from the worlds of film, TV and gaming.

06/11/2022

A little impromptu Brahms 2, and why not.

Spielberg cheers on the film legend, as he plays a Brahms concerto at the piano.

31/08/2022

Happy birthday indeed. What a legend ….. and even played folk violin for Billy Joel on Downeaster Alexa.

29/06/2022

29/06/2022

We are so excited to announce the launch of our new website. Feel free to have a look around! Big thanks to Dave Galbraith at Break Design Consultancy for his fantastic work. 🤩🎼🙌🏻

https://www.studio-orchestrations.com/

21/06/2022

Paul Campbell's latest orchestration project for composer Guy Farley. Enjoy.
https://youtu.be/tfFbINTbIA8

16/03/2022

Blink and you’d miss the Studio orchestrations logo on the orchestral books in the clip.

A great ambitious Labour of love project led by Andrew Wyke at TBI media and music director, our dear friend, Jon Ranger. Score prep by John Langley for SO.

11/01/2022

One of a number of projects Paul Campbell and John Langley brokered over the Autumn 2021, this one for the Ulster Orchestra transmitted on BBCNI on NYE.

Paul was due to do the brunt of it but in the end he got too busy with other film/TV scoring projects so John ended up adapting, reducing and arranging from scratch a bundle of charts from Back to the future, Titanic, Game of Thrones, Your Highness. Paul wrote lovely charts from Line of Duty and Belfast.

All in all a really nice progam presented by Eamonn Holmes celebrating the huge amount of filming activity and influence that Northern Ireland has enjoyed over the past few years. A pleasure to work with the Ulster Orchestra once again under the calm and ever generous stewardship of conductor David Brophy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0012z6z/northern-ireland-onscreen

Eamonn Holmes introduces soundtracks from Northern Ireland’s film and TV industry.

02/09/2021

Released last weekend for Cardiff Pride but equally appropriate for the Tokyo Paralympics, John Langley’s new arrangement for Welsh National opera of This is me.

Featuring the WNO chorus and orchestra with guest soloists and semi chorus from Royal Welsh College of music and drama.

https://youtu.be/NVzfzDuzXyE

10/04/2021

A bit of a self-shout out today for John L.

New WNO PlayOpera went live this morning featuring a brand new orchestration of Dance of the unborn chicks from Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussourgsky by me.

The brief was to go back to the original piano version and avoid going anywhere near the Ravel orchestration since it s still (bizarrely) copyright in the USA and would need licensing, so this was great fun to re-invent and rediscover.

Huge thanks as always to Georgina Graves Govier at WNO for her loyalty in using SO to create these orchestral reduction commissions, little and often, throughout the past year. They are always fun to write and to hear played so brilliantly by the WNO orchestra.

We have another one in the melting pot already for later in the year but do enjoy this lovely little gem in the meantime.

Listen at 0,45"

Play Opera

20/03/2021

can be amazing. Went to the park with my family (and the dog) this morning and now on at Abbey Road Studios from my for Guy Farley. Home for lunch and dinner! 🎻🎧😁 [Paul]

19/03/2021

Great to be back at the ‘biscuit tin’ for two days of with the lovely for . Blessed to be working! [Paul] 🙏🏻🎧🎻🎹