Murray Gold
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Gold in his London studio.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Murray Jonathan Gold |
| Born |
28 February 1969 Portsmouth, England |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Labels | Silva Screen |
Murray Jonathan Gold (born 28 February 1969) is a five-time BAFTA nominated English composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. He is best known as the sole composer of all music for the 2005 revival of British TV series Doctor Who.
Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA five times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006) and twice for Doctor Who (2009 & 2014). His score for the BAFTA winning film Kiss of Life was awarded the 'Mozart Prize of the 7th Art' by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated four times by the Royal Television Society in categories relating to music for television.
He has worked with Russell T Davies, the former writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, many times in the past on projects such as Casanova (starring David Tennant), The Second Coming (starring Christopher Eccleston) and Queer as Folk 1 & 2. He has also provided the incidental music for the 2000s version of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) alongside James Bond composer David Arnold, who provided the theme tune.
He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series Shameless and scored the period drama The Devil's Whore. More recently Gold scored another David Tennant series, in BBC1's Single Father. In this, Gold opted for a more popular music style ensemble rather than writing for orchestra.
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