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Paul Hart

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Paul Hart, born 1954, lived and grew up in Ilford. He studied piano, violin and composition at the Royal College of Music, first as a junior exhibitor and later full-time.

Having developed an early interest in jazz music he left college in 1973 and about a year later started working as piano accompanist (and sometimes jazz violinist) to Cleo Laine and John Dankworth.

In 1979 he met his business partner Joe Campbell and formed a company called Joe and Co Music specifically to write music for adverts. Thousands of films and hundreds of awards later the company is still regarded as one of the foremost in the world in this field.

In 1981 Paul renewed a friendship with David Arnold, whom he had known at college, and went on to write, amongst other things a host of radio identity jingles, including Classic FM, Jazz FM and the BBB World Service. He also scored the theme music for numerous television programmes including Tomorrow's World, Big Breakfast, Live and Kicking, In Deep and Waking the Dead. He also wrote the music for the feature film `May We Borrow Your Husband`, starring Dirk Bogarde. In 1991 he conducted his `Concerto for Guitar and Jazz Orchestra` at the Proms with John Williams. Other compositions include a large-scale work for Cathedral Organ and Jazz Orchestra, commissioned by St Albans Festival. He has written highly acclaimed pieces for wind band, 'Cartoon' 'Circus Ring' ‘Carnaby Street’ were all commissioned for the Royal Tournament series . Recent compositions include Skyrider and Sunrise and Silver Screen.