Nigel Beaham-Powell

Personal Statement

Personal Statement

Associate Senior Lecturer: Commercial Music. School of Music and Performing Arts.

MA [Edinburgh University]

Membership of Professional Bodies/Subject Associations:

Writer Director, Performing Right Society to 2011
British Academy of Songwriters and Composers

Teaching Specialism:

Music Business Skills
Copyright
TV and Film Composition

Key Publications/Exhibitions/Performances:

Television and film composer of over 400 scores.

Recent work includes: Miracle of Carriage 456 (C4 2008) , Hotel Ground Zero (C4 2008) , The Miracle of Stairwell B (C4 2006) The Man Who Predicted 9/11 (C4 2005) The Day Mountbatten Died (BBC2, May 2004), Second By Second
(National Geographic September 2004), Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (Channel 4, November 2004), Jungle (BBC1, November 2003), Theory Of Everything (Channel 4, December 2003), Anatomy of a Sharkbite (Channel 4, December 2003). Past work includes Wogan (BBC1), The Chief (ITV), Saturday Night Clive (BBC1), Harry's Mad (ITV) Comic Relief (BBC1) Ruby Wax (BBC2) and The Natural World (BBC2).

Currently working on sixth library music album for Carlin Production Music. Completed Time and Tension (Soho Production Music) released 2011

Occasional writer for Sound On Sound

Current Scholarship:

Participant in the round table debate on copyright reform reported in the New Statesman June 2006

Other External Roles:

Ivors Judge 2012, Trustee of St Georges music venue in Bristol, Ivors Judge 2009, Keynote Speaker Canadian Board of Heritage/Ottawa 2008, Keynote speaker CIAM Warsaw 2007, Ivors Judge 2007, Member of the Copyright Reform Group hosted by the Adam Smith Institute
CISAC (International Confederation of Authors and Composers) delegate Paris June 2006
Re-elected Deputy Chair of the Performing Right Society January 2006 for two further years
CISAC (International Confederation of Authors and Composers) delegate Dublin May 2005
Guest Lecturer at Bristol University (November 2004)
Guest Speaker at the MPA (Music Publishers Association) November 2004
CISAC (International Confederation of Authors and Composers) delegate, Seoul October 2004