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PeterScholes

  • Composer
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Auckland composer and clarinetist Peter Scholes began his screen career in style, composing and arranging the lush score for Desperate Remedies (1993). Since then he has supplied sounds for tragic romances (Memory and Desire), horror (The Tattooist) and three one-off TV dramas. Scholes has conducted for orchestras in London and Prague; he also founded and is musical director of the Auckland Chamber Orchestra.

Screenography

Emilie Richards - Der Zauber von Neuseeland
2011 Composer Film
Roof Rattling
2009 Composer Short film
Life's a Riot
2008 Composer Television
The Tattooist
2007 Composer Film
50 Ways of Filming "Fabulous"
2005 Composer Television

Awards

2008 Qantas Film and Television Awards
Nominated for Best Original Music - Film: for The Tattooist

“Scholes chose to use an unconventional orchestration utilizing a mix of samples, real sounds, synthetic sounds, and processed real sounds — a variety of sound material that would appear disguised and balanced in unorthodox ways.”

— Randall Larson on Peter Scholes’ score for The Tattooist - Cinefantastique website