Gilbert Gabriel(II)
- Composer
- Actor
- Music Department
Gilbert Gabriel has a B.mus(hons) and MA in film studies. He is a film
music composer, songwriter and producer whose music and songs have
featured in TV, Films & Radio around the world. He received an Ivor
Novello nomination and was awarded Gold records and BMI certificates
for radio play and sales.
He studied piano, film composition and film studies at several institutions including Goldsmith's University, Westminster University and spent time as the in-house composer at The London Film School. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on 'Film Soundtracks and Subjective States in Cinema' at Cardiff University with professor Theo Van Leeuwen. He studied piano under John Tilbury (who played piano for the composer Morton Feldman, a contemporary of John Cage) and studied composition with Howard Skempton (minimalist composer and experimentalist).
His credits include: The Dream Academy (Life in a Northern town and The Love Parade), composing music for Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Trains, Planes and Automobiles and Diane Keaton's Heaven. Independent films Paris (John Cale) and The Light Trap as well as collaborations with Massive Attack vocalist Shara Nelson, Polysterene (X ray Spex), Shola Ama and Kirsty Hawkshaw (Opuslll).
Gilbert is writing and recording a fourth Dream Academy album, as well finishing a solo project with Kroke's Tomasz Kurkurba (Peter Gabriel/Nigel Kennedy collaborator).
He studied piano, film composition and film studies at several institutions including Goldsmith's University, Westminster University and spent time as the in-house composer at The London Film School. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on 'Film Soundtracks and Subjective States in Cinema' at Cardiff University with professor Theo Van Leeuwen. He studied piano under John Tilbury (who played piano for the composer Morton Feldman, a contemporary of John Cage) and studied composition with Howard Skempton (minimalist composer and experimentalist).
His credits include: The Dream Academy (Life in a Northern town and The Love Parade), composing music for Ferris Bueller's Day Off; Trains, Planes and Automobiles and Diane Keaton's Heaven. Independent films Paris (John Cale) and The Light Trap as well as collaborations with Massive Attack vocalist Shara Nelson, Polysterene (X ray Spex), Shola Ama and Kirsty Hawkshaw (Opuslll).
Gilbert is writing and recording a fourth Dream Academy album, as well finishing a solo project with Kroke's Tomasz Kurkurba (Peter Gabriel/Nigel Kennedy collaborator).