Patrick Doyle (born April 6, 1953, Birkenshaw, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish musician and film score composer. His collaboration with Kenneth Branagh and the Shakespearean community is well known, but his scoring talents are versatile, and he has composed orchestral scores for a variety of films and film genres, including Disney's Shipwrecked, the gangster drama Carlito's Way and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In the latter half of the...
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Patrick Doyle (born April 6, 1953, Birkenshaw, South Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish musician and film score composer. His collaboration with Kenneth Branagh and the Shakespearean community is well known, but his scoring talents are versatile, and he has composed orchestral scores for a variety of films and film genres, including Disney's Shipwrecked, the gangster drama Carlito's Way and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In the latter half of the 1990s, he utilised a combination of synthesizers, chorus, and solo vocals, along with a traditional orchestra.
Doyle graduated in 1974 from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, where he studied piano and singing. His first music score was written in 1978, and subsequently, he has written the music for a host of radio, television, theatre and film productions. He lives in Surrey with his wife, Lesley, and his four children.
Doyle joined the Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987 as composer and musical director, with an...
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