Jamie Salisbury

Jamie Salisbury has written award winning scores for films, adverts and theatrical productions. Since obtaining a Masters in Composition for Film and Television from London College of Music, Jamie has built up a varied and impressive portfolio of work while performing regularly as an accomplished pianist and keyboard player at top venues across the UK.

As a composer, he works in various styles from classical and jazz, to world and dance music. He is equally at home working with orchestras and live musicians as he is with production from his home studio just outside London.

In 2004 Jamie was awarded the LCMM Sony Award for "Music and the Moving Image" for "Scoops", a composition for animation performed and recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra. He was twice nominated for The Postgraduate Composers Prize (for Most Oustanding Allrounder) at LCMM in both 2004 and 2005.

In 2011 Jamie composed the world's first orchestral score for an eBook novel. Endworlds: Echoes of Worlds Past was recorded with a 70 piece orchestra in Prague, mixed by Steve Price (The Blue Planet, Mamma Mia) and mastered at Abbey Road Studios.

Music composed for various visual media includes:

Endworlds: Echoes of Worlds Past by Nic Read - eBook and soundtrack album

Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message 2011 - soundtrack featuring the English Session Orchestra and the London Community Gospel Choir

Myro, the Smallest Plane in the World - soundtrack album

Stationery - Dir. Jason Fairley

Look Closer - Cinema advert for HDCM

Clean Slate - Dir. James Westcott

Theatre music includes:

The End In Mind -
Original musical, lyrics by Chris Lane, produced by Andy Barnes

The Last Tycoon -
Original musical, book and lyrics by Matt Charman, Jacobs Well Productions

Falling for Eve -
Original musical, book and lyrics by Matt Charman, Jacobs Well Productions

Games People Play -
Edinburgh Komedia, Jacobs Well Productions

Frankenstein - Bloomsbury Theatre, London

Many other compositions and arrangements for orchestra, wind orchestra, jazz band, and other ensembles.

Jamie has also composed, co-written and produced for various pop albums and production music projects.

As a pianist and keyboard player, Jamie has played with many pop and jazz artists, in venues ranging from Ronnie Scott's and The Jazz Cafe to Shepherds Bush Empire and the London Astoria, as well as many TV appearances. He has also demonstrated the latest developments in music technology in his freelance role as Yamaha's UK synthesizer demonstrator.

He holds a Masters degree in Composition for Film and Television from London College of Music as well as a BA (Hons) in 20th Century Music Studies from the University of Sussex, England.