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Read the biography for Christopher Gunning - a prolific British composer of music for film, television and the concert hall.
Mar 29, 2023 · The widely acclaimed English composer and conductor Christopher Gunning, known for both his film and television music and his symphonic orchestral compositions, has died at the age of 78.
Christopher Gunning was a British composer of music for films, television and the concert hall. He composed 13 symphonies, numerous concertos and other concert works, and a large number of scores for films and television dramas, including Agatha Christie’s ‘Poirot,’ La Vie en Rose, Middlemarch, Cold Lazarus, Rebecca, Under Suspicion ...
Christopher Gunning is a British composer of music for films, television and the concert hall. He has composed 7 symphonies, numerous concertos and other concert works, and a large number...
Christopher Gunning is a prolific British composer with a passion for writing large-scale symphonic works, more intimate concert pieces, and film and TV scores. In his concert music he has developed an individual yet approachable, colourful, and highly expressive language which frequently gives his music a strongly dramatic and emotional flavour.
Chandos’s exploration of British orchestral music shows no signs of slowing down, and has recently added a new name to its catalogue, that of Christopher Gunning (born 1944). Primarily known up until now as a film composer, Gunning has, in fact, long had classical tuition, always working in a style that has reflected that.
A British composer, who worked across film and television in an award-winning career spanning 50 years. Christopher Gunning won four BAFTAs, three for Original Television Music for Porterhouse Blue (1987), Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2004) and Middlemarch (1994), adding another for the film La Vie En Rose (2007).
