Simon Toner
- Composer
Simon Toner is a composer and musician. Simon has composed music for film, theatre, art installations and radio/podcasts. Recent commissions include collaborating with composer Oliver Vibrans on The Process, a play performed at The Bunker Theatre London, Farmland, a dark comedy short film about sisters by long term collaborator Niamh McKeown, Rosalyn, a psychological short film drama on pregnancy by Olivia Middleton, Good Girls, a rambunctious comedy short about school girls by McKeown, Fat Lot of Good, a podcast by and for fat people by comedian Helen Thorn, Change of Tune, a short film about jazz daydreams by Froydis Fossli Moe, Universal Credit, an investigative podcast by journalist Ailean Beaton and Hidden Door Festival, a short documentary produced by High Tide Media for Creative Scotland. Simon has worked as a copyist and orchestrator for composers Belinda O'Hooley and Heidi Tidow on the songbook for their score for the HBO TV programme Gentleman Jack and for film composer Simon Heath. In the first decade of his career, Simon has become part of a network of Scottish and London musicians and creatives and has toured Europe as a bassist working regularly as a recording and performing artist on a plethora of projects. Simon is a graduate with a BA (hons) in Popular Music. Simon is also an enthusiastic music educator.