Simon Porter Email & Phone Number

I am a freelance composer writing for film and television. I scored my first feature, Inmate Zero (also known as Patients of a Saint), in 2018, recording more than 50 minutes of music with the Sofia Session Orchestra and Choir in Sofia, Bulgaria. I co-scored my first prime-time television documentary also in 2018 - Drowning in Plastic, presented by Liz Bonnin - which premiered on BBC1 in October. At the beginning of 2019 I had the opportunity to score Containment, one of six short films set in the official Alien universe, as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Ridley Scott's 1979 original. I also score commercials, with clients including Booking.com, Betway, and L'Oreal. When not scoring to picture, I write production music for libraries including EMI and BMG, and have had music synched in such television programmes as The Apprentice, Panorama, and WWE, as well as for film trailers, including Dumbo, Logan Lucky, and Live by Night. Film-scoring and production music have afforded me the opportunity to record my music at Abbey Road and Angel Studios in London, as well as at studios abroad in Budapest and Sofia.I gained my Batchelor of Music from City University in 2007, specialising in both instrumental and electroacoustic composition, as well as the study of ethnomusicology. While I am continuing the former professionally through my career, I keep up my pursuit of the latter between projects, travelling as much as I can, learning about and participating in the music of the places I visit at the same time. So far, my travels have enabled me to take percussion lessons in Cuba, Belize, India, and Colombia.

Listed skills include Film, Music, Short Films, Film Production, and 17 others.