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Michael J McEvoy
American composer and musician based in London, UK.
About Me
Michael is an award-winning composer with many film, television and pop music credits to his name
including the score for Richard Loncraine’s feature Finding Your Feet starring Imelda Staunton, Timothy
Spall and Celia Imrie. Other projects of note include the evocative jazz score to the acclaimed BBC/PBS
documentary Jazz Ambassadors and Churchill and the Movie Mogul for BBCFour.
In 2019 Michael received an Ivors Composer nomination for Jazz Composition for Small Ensemble for
his
piece Mother Medusae. Performed by Thomas Gould (violin), Kristjan Randalu (piano) and Stephan
Braun
(cello). The work mixes jazz and classical harmonies with rich melodies and percussive rhythms.
Michael’s film and TV composing credits also include Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles starring
Zac Efron and Clare Danes and indie feature Forget Me Not (Winner London Independent Film
Festival)
starring Tobias Menzies. He is an accomplished arranger and provided string orchestrations for Ricky
Gervais’ David Brent: Life On The Road. Michael’s music also appears in films including Wild Card
starring Jason Statham, Wild Target with Emily Blunt, plus TV drama, The Wire.
Michael has scored many prestigious long-form documentaries including the Peabody award winning
documentary The Jazz Ambasassadors, BAFTA-winning J’accuse,
Einstein’s Big Idea and Battle of the Hood and Bismarck and National Geographic’s landmark ocean
series Alien Deep and many others. He has three regional Emmy nominations, winning Best
Instrumental Music for PBS’s ‘Tennessee Yearbook’ and an Ivors Composer Award nomination.
Michael studied piano and viola at the Centre for Young Musicians and Leeds College of Music. He also
plays guitar, mandolin and assorted stringed instruments which often feature in his scores. In 2006 he
gained a Masters in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music in London and was
awarded
the prestigious Joseph Horovitz Prize in Composition for Screen. As well as music for screen, Michael
has
composed for jazz, classical and choral ensembles.
He has written and produced three
albums including The Long Way Home (2014) which received glowing praise and featured a stellar
line
up of British jazz stars including Nigel Hitchcock, Gerard Presencer, Jason Rebello, Ben Castle and
James
Maddren. His most recent project is his 10 piece big band called The Jazz Sapiens. Their first album
called Remembrance: 1955 to 1963 was released in October 2023. More information about his
recordings and live work is available on his website: michaeljmcevoy.com.
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