bio: Simon Toner is a composer and musician from Scotland. Simon has composed music for film, theatre, art installations and radio/podcasts. His latest electronic score was for FLOOERS, the fantastic short directed by long term collaborator Niamh McKeown and commissioned by the Edinburgh International Book Festival.Simon was asked to lead a workshop for Edinburgh International Film Festival's EIFF Youth. The film introduces young filmmakers to film music and Simon talks with the talented young director, Duncan Forbes about their collaboration on his film 'Pizza Boy.Recently Simon has collaborated on multiple projects as an associate composer and multi-instrumentalist for Ivor Novello award winning composer Oliver Vibrans (click on links to listen!). Over the past 2 years they have collaborated on The Process, a play performed at The Bunker Theatre in London, Oliver Twist for Leeds Playhouse and Ramps on the Moon, The Merchant of Venice for Stafford Shakespeare Festival, Chateau Ghoul, an interactive Zoom show for LipService Theatre, A Snail of Two Cities, a comic animated short film, and most recently What Happened To You?, a touring puppet-theatre show for children about cerebral palsy.His past work also includes, Farmland (watch full film here), a dark comedy short film about sisters by long term collaborator Niamh McKeown, Rosalyn (watch full film here), a psychological short film drama on pregnancy by Olivia Middleton, Good Girls (watch full film here), a rambunctious comedy short about school girls by McKeown, Fat Lot of Good, a podcast by and for fat people by comedian Helen Thorn, Change of Tune (watch full film here), a short film about jazz daydreams by Froydis Fossli Moe, Universal Credit, an investigative podcast by journalist Ailean Beaton and Hidden Door Festival (watch in full here), a short documentary produced by High Tide Media for Creative Scotland. Simon has worked as a copyist and orchestrator for composers Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow on the songbook for their score for the HBO TV programme Gentleman Jack and for composer Simon Heath. In the first decade of his career, Simon has become part of a network of Scottish and London musicians and creatives and has toured Europe as a bassist working regularly as a recording and performing artist on a plethora of projects. Simon is a graduate of Edinburgh Napier University with a BA (hons) in Popular Music. Simon is also an enthusiastic music educator.  ∞