Stephen Daltry
Composer & Musical Director
Selected Credits: TELEVISION:
LEIF LETZEBUERGER: 2008 Luxembourg cinema and TV broadcast. Feature documentary on Grand Duchess
Charlotte of Luxembourg. Director Ray Tostevin, Grace Productions.
TOO SCARED FOR SCHOOL: 2004 Granada Bristol Produced and directed by Ann Hawker. Broadcast ITV ‘Real Life’ series.
JOHN’S TALE : 2003 International Films. Director Shan Stephens. Executive Producer Mike Pritchard.
THE REAL CATHERINE COOKSON - 2002 - CH4
Director Ann Hawker, a Yorkshire TV production.
SMUGGLERS - 2001 - CH4 - Blast Productions - Ann Hawker
TWO LOVES - 2000 - BBC and ZDF - Ryninks Films - Jacqueline van Vugt
CHILDREN OF THE IRON LUNG - 2000 - CH4 Director Ann Hawker. Granada.
DIANA: THE PARIS CRASH 1999 - ITV Fulcrum Productions. Dir. Paul Oramland
SNOOPERS : CH4 Director Laura Granditer - Cats Eye 1999
BATTLE FOR THE PLANET 1999 - 4-part Discovery Series. Executive Producer, David Shulman. Ryninks Films, Amsterdam
DIANA: SECRETS BEHIND THE CRASH 1998 - ITV
Director Laura Granditer. Fulcrum Productions..
THE HUNT - TV version for BBC’s Under The Sun series 1997 Ryninks Films. Director Niek Koppen. Cultural Prix Italia Winner.
Selected Credits as MD: THEATRE
2008 ‘Three Men in a Boat’,
Theatre Royal, York. Director: Paul Burbridge.
2007-8 ‘Treasure Island’,
King’s Head, Islington. Director: Chris Pickles.
2004 ‘The Dubya Trilogy’,
New Players Theatre. Dir: Justin Butcher.
2004 ‘A Weapons Inspector Calls’,
Pleasance Theatre, NW1.
Director: Justin Butcher.
2004 MD/tutor. Royal Academy of Music
Theatre workshop of stage musical
‘Forever Splendide’
2003 ‘The Madness of
George Dubya’. Arts Theatre, London. W1
Director: Justin Butcher.
2000/1 ‘Alice Through the Looking-Glass’.
British Library Theatre
& New End, NW1. Sunday Times Critics Choice.
Selected Credits as Composer: CINEMA
THE LOST WORLD OF MR HARDY 2008 Trufflepig Films.
Feature documentary on the Hardy fishing tackle firm. Directors Andrew Heathcote and Heike Bachelier.
HONEY & STING 2006 Sybil H Mair Lantern Films (20mins)
PERFECT DAY 2005 Jack Russell Productions
Director Andrea Wallace Grant. 35mm short (15mins)
THE TROUBLE WITH MEN AND WOMEN 2003 S Films Director Tony Fisher. Feature film. Producer Chris Simons. Co-composer credit.
ODOUR OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS - 2002 - Jack Russell Productions. Dir Mark Partridge - 1st Prize Milan Film Festival.
Selected Credits: COMMERCIALS:
DAILY TELEGRAPH TREASURE QUEST : Director Andrea
Wallace-Grant 1994. Smith Jones Brown Cassie.
PONDS CREAM, SPECIAL K, K CIDER, trial commercials by director Andrea Wallace-Grant.
Selected Credits: CORPORATES:
FASTLAB, GENERAL ELECTRIC 2008 Andrea Wallace-Grant, Jack Russell Productions.
HURLEY PALMER FLATT - 2005 Barron TV & The Beat Suite
LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL - 2 part series 2001/2 Director Amanda Mackenzie-Stuart
SECURICOR -2001 - Director Andy Heathcote. Produced by Demaine Associates
Library music written for the Beat Suite, and composing for Squarepeg Music Consultancy & Management
Stephen Daltry
Stephen Daltry, a pianist at Kettners from 2002-2008, received his B.A. (Hons - Class I) in Music with Radio Film & TV Studies (special option: Film-making and Composing; special study: Debussy) from Christ Church College, Canterbury, Kent, in 1983. He obtained a Diploma in acting from the Actors' Institute, London in 1987 and gained Equity membership in 1988. In 1990, after working as an actor and musician in theatre and film, and as Musical Director for Newsrevue (Canal Café, London), he won a scholarship in composing to the National Film & Television School, UK, graduating with his Diploma in 1994. His graduation film as a composer, Two Seconds to Midnight, was directed by Tony Fisher (also dir. The Trouble with Men & Women, S Films UK 2003, to which Stephen also contributed music). Whilst at the NFTS, Stephen wrote and directed his own 13-minute short, Debussy (Best of British: British Short Film Festival Haymarket, London 1994).
Stephen's first commission as a film composer was for the BBC documentary Identity Unknown, by cinematographer/director Simon Everson. Since then, he has composed music for a wide variety of documentaries and dramas, both in the UK and EU, detailed above.
AWARDS
2007 Park City Film Music Festival, Utah.
Gold Medal for Artistic Excellence for Impact of
Music in a Short Film: 'Honey And Sting'
(Director: Sybil Mair, Lantern Films)
1999 Cultural Prix Italia awarded to 'The Hunt'
(Dir. Niek Koppen, Ryninks Films) BBC2 and ZDF
Music composed and arranged by Stephen Daltry.
1994 Annecy Animation Film Festival, France.
Best Soundtrack, for 'The Occasion'
(Director Sue Loughlin, National Film & TV School).
Stephen has written on 'Film Music & Narrative' for Vertigo magazine (Spring 2003); he lectures and demonstrates on music (film music in particular) to arts clubs and film schools, including the Cairo Film School and the Halfway Production House, London.
He was an actor-guide at the Museum of the Moving Image, London in 1988 - an experience which inspired Forever Splendide (co-writer, book, Lesley Albiston) a stage musical about a fleapit cinema set in 1946 - the tale of a starstruck usherette - which Stephen wrote and composed. It premiered at the Kings Head, London in 1990 (dir. Helen le Brocq), and showed at the Hen & Chickens, London, in 1993 (dir. Lesley Albiston). The Salisbury Dramatic Association played it at the Arts Centre in 1996, and Stephen revised the piece for the Royal Academy of Music's workshop and a reading at the Bridewell, London in 2004.
In 2000, Stephen's musical version of Lewis Carroll's Alice through the Looking Glass (co-dir. & lyricist Maureen Thomas) was rated in the top two London Christmas Shows (below only Cirque du Soleil) in the Sunday Times critics and audience ratings. Press: Sunday Times: "Engaging …magical …a delight!" The Stage: "Classic Alice … lavish..crisp..comedy". In August 2006, Stephen took his original one-man comedy (classical) music show, Ludwig's Van, to the Edinburgh Festival. Reviews: "Virtuoso performer and composer" … "a boisterous comedy talent" (The Stage). "Irreverent and enjoyable ... humour half way between Mr Bean and cartoonist Gerard Hoffnung. Recommended, especially for anyone with even a passing knowledge of classical music" (Steve Lawson, 08/08/06).
As a professional actor. (Equity M00119808) Stephen's
appearances include the recent 'Three Men in a Boat' at the Theatre Royal, York (2008); multiple roles in 'Dick Turpin (Friargate Theatre, York, 2001); Police Chief Tiger Brown in the Threepenny Opera (by Brecht/Weill, dir. Geoff Sykes: Manchester Youth Theatre, 1979), Diabetes in God (by Woody Allen, dir. Phil Young, 1986); small parts in Death (by Woody Allen, Donmar Warehouse 1986); Lord Poppelwell in The Fool wr/dir. Christine Edzard (Sands Films, 1990).