Stuart Hancock - a composer and arranger of film, television, commercial, theatre and concert music, and a professional pianist and accompanist. Stuart was born in 1975. He studied at Pomona College, California and Downing College, Cambridge and, in 1998, graduated with distinction from the Masters course in composing for film and television at the London College of Music (where he studied with film composer Nigel Clarke). Between 1999 and 2005, he was full-time with London music production company Mcasso, where he composed and produced music for all commercial media. He now works as a busy freelance composer and orchestrator of film, television, commercial, theatre and concert music from his studio in north London. He has won industry awards for his music and sound design on campaigns for the British Board of Film Classification, Burberry New York and the 2002 BBC World Cup coverage. He has also scored many films, both shorts and features: most notably 'EMR', which won the Raindance Film Festival and went on general release in the summer of 2005, following its Cannes premiere. 2001 saw the Royal Festival Hall premiere of his new score for the Hollywood silent movie 'Lucky Star', with the Tempus Chamber Orchestra. Stuart's soundtracks to four recent films - 'Hawk', 'Underground', 'Bodyguard: A New Beginning' and 'One Night In Turin' - have been recently released on CD and to download, to rapturous reviews ("Hancock proves that his work is up there with the best that Hollywood has to offer. Expect great things from him in the future"; Darren Rea, review of Bodyguard: A New Beginning). Stuart also composes for the theatre and concert hall. Recent concert works include a Double Flute Concerto; a quartet - 'Raptures' - for flute, violin, viola and cello; a Violin Concerto, premiered with Paul Barrett and the Southbank Sinfonia in June 2005; and Bitter Suite: a collection of sinister settings of nursery rhymes, performed by the Juice Vocal Ensemble and the London Phoenix Orchestra, at St John's Smith Square in June 2006 and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His choral work 'Choir Straits' with lyricist Kit Hesketh-Harvey for the Bath Camerata was premiered at London's prestigious Wigmore Hall on December 17th 2009, and his children's opera for W11 Opera - 'Rain Dance' - was staged at the Riverside Studios, London, in December 2010. His newly commissioned 'Folksong Suite' was premiered at the Roundhouse on March 26th 2011, by the Holst Singers conducted by Stephen Layton. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.