Gareth Murphy
Gareth Murphy is a screen composer, orchestrator and arranger based in London.
Selected Credits
Gareth has worked with Academy Award-nominated composer Patrick Doyle in the music departments on Disney’s ‘Artemis Fowl’ and Sony Pictures’ ‘All Is True’, both directed by Sir Kenneth Branagh. He has also worked with composer and director Sally Potter on her score for ‘The Roads Not Taken’.
Recently, Gareth has worked as an orchestrator on Big Talk Productions’ Bafta-nominated ‘Ludwig’ series starring David Mitchell, for which he worked closely with the composers to deliver an exciting reimagining of some of Beethoven’s most famous pieces. He also orchestrated the modern, inventive score for dark comedy feature film ‘The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Writer About a Serial Killer’, which premiered at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival.
Additionally, Gareth orchestrated Chinese–Hong Kong crime drama film ‘She’s Got No Name’ and provided additional orchestration for Natalie Holt’s BAFTA-nominated ‘Loki’ Season 2 score. Prior to this, Gareth orchestrated Sky Cinema’s ‘This is Christmas’, with an original score by Christian Henson, and he was the Music Researcher and Classical Music Arranger for Searchlight Pictures’ biographic drama ‘Chevalier’.
Gareth has worked with BAFTA on a number of occasions, writing the music for new TV scripts which have been showcased at their BAFTA Rocliffe events.
He regularly collaborates with commercial artists, creating arrangements for Grammy Award-winning artist Rick Springfield’s latest tour (these arrangements are also featured on Springfield’s ‘Orchestrating My Life – Live at the Saban’ DVD), and arranging brass for the forthcoming EP by scoring trio Zero VU (HBO: ‘Tuff Money’, Sky Cinema: ‘The Drifters’).
In 2020 Gareth released ‘After Midnight’, a piece written for the Santa Barbara Symphony’s ‘Sundays With The Symphony’ concert series.
Gareth graduated with a Masters in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music, where he studied as a John Barry Scholar.