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- Deborah Mollison is an award winning composer, songwriter and pianist who is perhaps best known for her score to East is East which was one of the most commercially successful independent British movies ever produced in the UK. Deborah 's impressive diversity of style is born of a love of the adventure of writing music. Her rapid speed of composition and ability to be original within any given musical genre is matched by her skills of orchestration, arranging and conducting . Deborah began composing at the age of seven, when it was discovered that she was gifted with an acute sense of perfect pitch. At the age of 13 she was accepted to study composition, pianoforte and flute at the Royal Academy of Music.
Deborah then went on to study film scoring at the University of California and Los Angeles with Don Ray, Jerrold Immel and Jerry Goldsmith. Following this, Deborah gained her doctorate at Middlesex University where she specialized in researching cognitive thought patterning in musical composition.
With a body of classical work, which includes commissions from the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia, Deborah continues to compose concert music and was inspired greatly by her lessons with composer Elisabeth Lutyens.
In May 2007 Deborah was awarded an ARAM from the Royal Academy of music.
Deborah has scored for film and television on both sides of the Atlantic including the US feature, The Boys of Sunset Ridge, the Carlton drama series The Thing About Vince with Timothy Spall and No Tears featuring Brenda Fricker which won the award for Best Mini-Series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2002.
Deborah has worked extensively for the BBC and Channel 4 on documentary series including Wild Weather, Better Designs and Secrets of the Ancients. More recently Deborah has revisited her comedy writing to complete two series of Uncle Max and the action comedy, A Spring in her Step.
As a songwriter whilst signed to Rondor Music in the late nineties, then subsequently to Universal Music publishing. Deborah worked with an impressive list of writers including Nick Kershaw, Rick Astley, Marti Pellow, Sam Brown, Chris Difford, Brian Kennedy, Kim Appleby and Tony Swain. Deborah has written songs for a few of her TV shows, including Uncle Max series one.
Deborah has also composed music for numerous TV adverts including Virgin, Levis, Signal and Vodafone. By: Vortex Music- IMDb Mini Biography By: Vortex Music - Deborah Mollison is an award-winning songwriter and film composer who is best known for her score to BAFTA nominated 'East is East', one of the most commercially successful independent British movies of all time.
She began composing at the age of seven when it was discovered that she was gifted with an acute sense of perfect pitch. At the age of 13, Deborah was accepted to study composition, pianoforte and flute at the Royal Academy of Music, and continued on there until the age of 21. She won the Else Cross prize for Pianoforte and gained her LRAM, ARAM and BMus. Deborah then went on to complete her Master's degree, studying with Elisabeth Lutyens, a pioneering female serial composer who's film scores gave Deborah an interest and insight into the art of film composition.
Deborah became bitten by the film scoring bug and continued her education across the Atlantic, studying Film Scoring at the University of California in Los Angeles. While in the US, Deborah scored the US feature 'The Boys of Sunset Ridge', the Carlton drama series 'The Thing About Vince' with Timothy Spall, and 'No Tears' featuring Brenda Fricker, which won the award for Best Mini-Series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2002. It was also around this time that Deborah completed her PHD in music which focused specifically on the cognitive thought patterning involved when musical composition is created.
As a songwriter, Deborah has worked with an impressive roster of writers including Nick Kershaw, Marti Pellow and Brian Kennedy. She has also arranged album music for artists such as Montserrat Caballé and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. In addition Deborah won 'Song UK' for her first ever rock song.
Deborah has worked extensively for the BBC and Channel 4 on documentary series including 'Wild Weather', 'Better Designs' and 'Secrets of the Ancients'. Since then, Deborah has revisited her comedy writing to complete two series of 'Uncle Max' and the action comedy, 'Tied to a Chair'. She has also composed music for a variety of adverts including Virgin, Levis, Signal and Vodafone, and recently composed a bespoke wedding march for the marriage of a Saudi Arabian princess.
Most recently Deborah scored the short film 'Sipped' directed by Freddie Connor for which she won the 'Award of Merit for Individual Achievement in Music'. Prior to this Deborah composed for the short films 'Luna Park' directed by Freddie Connor, and 'Heather's painting', which won the best score in a short award in the Portsmouth International Film Festival 2016. In addition to being a skilled and versatile composer, Deborah is equally versed in orchestration, arranging and conducting. She regularly conducts her own work and has enjoyed conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Irish Film Orchestra.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Air-Edel
- Has a twin sister and they call each other twinny and twingo.
- Father played professional football, with Tottenham, Aldershot and Watford FC's in the 1950's, Jack Price.
- Studied film scoring at UCLA with Jerrold Immel, Don Ray and Jerry Goldsmith.
- Married to musician Gareth Mollison, grandson of Sir Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn OBE, FRSE, WS.
- Has one child, Harriet Mollison.
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