Michael Price has quickly become one of the UK’s most sought after composers and music editors.

Michael Price has quickly become one of the UK’s most sought after composers and music editors. In the last 18 months he has scored 3 feature films, alongside significant music editing achievements on Richard Curtis’ LOVE ACTUALLY, and as lead music editor on Peter Jackson’s trilogy THE LORD OF THE RINGS and currently on BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON. Michael is equally at ease writing in full orchestral or more electronic and contemporary idioms, and is greatly in demand as a producer, arranger and programmer having worked on more than 30 major studio pictures.

Michael’s music career began with the widely respected Tonmeister course at Surrey University, where he won the PRS composition prize in 1990. After writing a number of scores for contemporary dance, he became Musical Director of DNA Dance and Music whose projects included the arts council funded chamber opera, ALL THE GARDEN GOLD based on the life of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

In 1996 Michael was invited by film composer Michael Kamen to program synths on the Paramount movie EVENT HORIZON. This led to a long working relationship encompassing a number of film scores in London, LA and Prague, and concerts in Berlin, New York, San Francisco and Geneva. Following the successful production of the score to BAND OF BROTHERS (HBO/Spielberg/Hanks), Michael was approached to music edit on THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING for New Line Cinema.

As a music editor, Michael has been nominated for 3 MPSE Golden Reel awards, winning in 2001 for THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING.

Michael has recently completed composing the score for the feature film SOME THINGS THAT STAY and is currently working as music editor on Working Title’s THE EDGE OF REASON (BRIDGET JONES 2) having only just completed his work on the extended DVD of THE RETURN OF THE KING.

Recent Film Credits

BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON
Working Title | Music Editor

SOME THINGS THAT STAY
LadyHawke Ventures | Composer

LD 50
Four Horsemen Films | Composer

ASHES AND SAND
Open Road Productions | Composer

LOVE ACTUALLY
Working Title Films | Music Editor

LORD OF THE RINGS (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Return of the King)
New Line Cinema | Lead music editor, 5.1 master score editing

BAND OF BROTHERS
HBO, Spielberg, Hanks Music co-producer, session production, programming, orchestration, conducting

TOMB RAIDER (first score)
Paramount Pictures, Synth Programmer, LA Co-Producer Electronic Score Design, Cue Co-Production, Cue Re-Editing

THE TIME MACHINE
Dreamworks | Music Editor, Session Music Editing

SPIRIT: STALLION OF THE CIMARRON
Dreamworks | Session Music Editing

INSOMNIA
Warner Bros. | Session Music Editing

X-MEN THE MOVIE (in LA)
20th Century Fox , Synth Programmer, Electronic Score Design, Cue Co-Production, Cue Re-Editing

FREQUENCY (in LA)
New Line Cinema | Music Co-Producer

IRON GIANT (Czech Phil in Prague)
Warner Bros | Electronic Score Production

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
PolyGram | Music Producer, Produced Theme Song with Phil Palmer | Vocal. Mick Hucknall

EVENT HORIZON
Paramount Pictures | Music Assistant, Programmer

Other Selected Production/Programming Credits

KAMEN
NEW MOON SYMPHONY, SLATKIN NSO, WASHINGTON

METALLICA WITH SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA S and M
Album and concerts, Music Preparation, Concert Co-Producer, Supervision of Orchestration, Production of Orchestra Mix in SF, New York and Berlin, Supervision of all Audio Pre-Production

NETAID CONCERT IN GENEVA
Assistant MD, String Charts and Production with Des'ree, Texas, Bryan Ferry etc.

FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
HBO | Music Co-Producer