Stuart Hancock
Stuart graduated with distinction from the Masters course in Composing for Film and Television at the London College of Music in 1998, and worked with commercial music production company Mcasso from 1999 to 2005, winning several industry awards. Stuart’s extensive list of film music credits begins his new score to the classic Hollywood silent movie Lucky Star, first performed at the Royal Festival Hall in 2001. The soundtrack releases to two recent action movies (Underground and Bodyguard: A New Beginning) prompted one critic to announce that Stuart’s music “is up there with the best that Hollywood has to offer. Expect great things from him in the future”. Earlier this year, Stuart scored the World Cup football documentary One Night In Turin, which went on general cinematic release in May, prompting the same reviewer to score it 10 out of 10 and comment that “there's something about this score that captures, for me, everything that's great about movie soundtracks. This is an emotional score that should be listened to as loud as you think you can get away with without annoying the neighbours.”
Stuart’s concert music includes a Double Flute Concerto; a quartet – Raptures – for flute, violin, viola and cello; a Violin Concerto (performed in the Sinfonia's December concert); and Bitter Suite: a collection of sinister settings of nursery rhymes, performed by the Juice Vocal Ensemble and the London Phoenix Orchestra, at St John’s Smith Square in June 2006 and broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His comic cantata Choir Straits for Kit & The Widow and the Bath Camerata enjoyed a Wigmore Hall premiere in December 2009, and his children’s opera Rain Dance for W11 Opera was staged last week at Riverside Studios, Hammersmith.
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