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John Cameron
Composer / Arranger / Conductor Educated Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, |
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• Academy Award® Nomination: Best Score A Touch of Class
• Emmy Award® Nomination: Best Score for A Miniseries/Drama Special The Path to 9/11
• New York Drama Desk Award: Best Orchestration Les Miserables
• National Broadway Theatre Award: Best Score Les Miserables
Current/recent projects
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TV Film Scores: |
 The Path to 9/11 (2006) - An 'epic' television mini-series for ABC on the events leading up to the US terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Score Emmy Nominated. IMDb link |
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After... (2006) - Ultimate thrill seeker adventures by Urban Explorers through the off-limit zones deep beneath the city of Moscow, directed by international filmmaker David L Cunningham. John’s track Explosive Corrosive Joseph featured on Ocean's Twelve (2004) and David Holme's Soundtrack CD. Future film project: Score for Right of Admission Reserved – directorial debut by award-winning Bollywood Producer Bobby Pushkarna (in pre-production). |
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Zorro the Musical - With the Gypsy Kings, John is co-composing the score for this new musical. Workshopped in London, Los Angeles and New York, and now in pre-production for opening 2008. Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - John’s original orchestrations are featured in the new TV-linked production which has already sold out the first six months of its run in London this summer. |
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 Astrella-Celeste (daughter of 60's icon Donovan) - Orchestral arrangements for debut single Dream and EP Blue Star (release due October 2006). |
One of the most versatile composers in Britain today, John’s many film credits include his music score for A Touch of Class (starring Glenda Jackson and George Segal) for which he received an Oscar Nomination, music for Ken Loach’s award winning Kes and To End All Wars, starring Robert Carlyle and Keifer Sutherland (John conducted the London Symphony Orchestra with Celtic songs by Maire Brennan).
John's most recent composing credits include Little House on the Prairie (2004 - Disney/Touchstone mini-series), Alfie-The Musical (2005, with Darren Day as Alfie), and Becket (2004 - with Dougray Scott). He wrote the music and lyrics for a Europe-wide Top 10 If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind recorded by Agnetha Faltskog (Abba) and the track Explosive Corrosive Joseph featured on Ocean's Twelve (2004) and David Holme's Soundtrack CD.
On television his work ranges from his scores for Jack the Ripper and Jekyll and Hyde (both starring Michael Caine), to the theme for the BBC’s Crimewatch UK.
John wrote the orchestral score for every version of Les Miserables, including the original Paris version (1979), the RSC productions (directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird) in London (1985), Washington and New York (1986), which won him a New York Drama Desk Award. In May 2002 the National Broadway Theatre Award for best orchestral score was awarded to John for Les Miserables. He wrote the orchestrations for Honk! (The Ugly Duckling) at the National (Best Musical - Olivier Awards), and also Stile’s/Drewe/Waterhouse Peter Pan, premiered at the Festival Hall in 2001.
Other shows he has arranged/supervised include the 'definitive' 1991 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, The Goodbye Girl, The Card, Blondel, Mutiny!, Spend! Spend! Spend! (Best Musical - Evening Standard Awards) and The Far Pavilions (2005).
Recent composing for the theatre includes the music for Faust Parts I and II (RSC - directed by Michael Bogdanov), the National Theatre’s touring production of John Caird’s Hamlet with Simon Russell Beale in the title role, Twelfth Night at the Kungliga Dramatiska Teatern, Stockholm and Becket with Dougray Scott (Theatre Royal, Haymarket).
Besides the Grammy Award winning New York cast album and symphonic album for Les Miserables and the 1991 version of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, he has collaborated with artists as diverse as Ella Fitzgerald, Donovan, Bobbie Gentry, Heatwave, Hot Chocolate, David Essex and his own band CCS. His song-writing credits include If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind (Agnetha Faltskog/Cilla Black), Sweet Inspiration (Johnny Johnson and The Bandwagon) and Tap Turns on the Water (CCS).
He was principal arranger for the Jose Carreras albums Passion and Pure Passion and arranged, conducted and produced Carreras’ new CD Around the World. John was awarded a silver disc for Lux Aeterna, his 8-part choral setting of Elgar’s Nimrod, featured on the best-selling classical album Agnus Dei, and he has recently conducted the English Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of New College Oxford in a recording of his own large scale cantata Missa Celtica.
