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Rachel Portman

Rachel Portman

Born December 11, 1960 · Haslemere, Surrey, England, UK

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Biography

Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman, OBE (born 11 December 1960) is an English composer who is best known for scoring films. Portman's career in music began with writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Mike Leigh's Four Days in July and Jim Henson's Storyteller series. Since then, Portman has written over 100 scores for film, television and theatre. Her other works include a children's opera, The Little Prince (which was later adapted for television) and Little House on the Prairie, a musical based upon the Laura Ingalls Wilder books Little House on the Prairie (2008). Portman was commissioned to write a piece of choral music for the BBC Proms series in August 2007 called The Water Diviner's Tale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel Portman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Sound 106

2010s

  1. 2019

    Mimi and the Mountain Dragon

    Music

  2. The Street

    Original Music Composer

  3. Archie

    Music

  4. 2017
  5. 2016
  6. I Wish For You

    Original Music Composer

  7. 2015

    Sainsbury's: Mog's Christmas Calamity

    Music

  8. 2014
  9. 2013
  10. Paradise

    Original Music Composer

  11. Girl Rising

    Music

  12. 2012
  13. 2011
  14. 2010

    National Theatre Live: London Assurance

    Music

2000s

  1. 2009
  2. 2008
  3. 2006

    Infamous

    Original Music Composer

  4. 2005
  5. 2004
  6. 2003
  7. 2002
  8. 2001

    The Emperor's New Clothes

    Orchestrator, Original Music Composer

  9. 2000

1990s

  1. 1999
  2. 1998
  3. 1997
  4. 1996
  5. Palookaville

    Original Music Composer

  6. 1995
  7. A Pyromaniac's Love Story

    Original Music Composer

  8. 1994
  9. War of the Buttons

    Original Music Composer

  10. Great Moments in Aviation

    Original Music Composer

  11. Friends

    Original Music Composer

  12. 1993
  13. 1992
  14. Rebecca's Daughters

    Original Music Composer

  15. Elizabeth R: A Year in the Life of The Queen

    Music

  16. The Cloning of Joanna May

    Original Music Composer

  17. 1991

    The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Daedalus & Icarus

    Original Music Composer

  18. The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Orpheus & Eurydice

    Original Music Composer

  19. The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Perseus & the Gorgon

    Original Music Composer

  20. The Storyteller: Greek Myths - Theseus & the Minotaur

    Original Music Composer

  21. Life Is Sweet

    Original Music Composer

  22. 1990

    Living with Dinosaurs

    Original Music Composer

  23. The Widowmaker

    Music, Original Music Composer

  24. Antonia and Jane

    Original Music Composer

  25. Shoot to Kill

    Original Music Composer

  26. Shoot to Kill

    Original Music Composer

  27. Sometime in August

    Music

  28. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    Music

1980s

  1. 1989

    The Woman in Black

    Original Music Composer

  2. Nice Work

    Original Music Composer

  3. Young Charlie Chaplin

    Original Music Composer

  4. Monster Maker

    Music

  5. Precious Bane

    Original Music Composer

  6. 1988

    The Storyteller: The Three Ravens

    Original Music Composer

  7. 1987

    The Short & Curlies

    Original Music Composer

  8. 1914 All Out

    Original Music Composer

  9. The Falklands War: The Untold Story

    Original Music Composer

  10. A Little Princess

    Original Music Composer

  11. 1986

    Good As Gold

    Music

  12. 1984

    Four Days in July

    Original Music Composer

  13. Last Day of Summer

    Original Music Composer

  14. Sharma and Beyond

    Original Music Composer

  15. 1982

    Experience Preferred... But Not Essential

    Original Music Composer

  16. Privileged

    Original Music Composer

Appearances3

2000s

  1. 2007

    Lights, Action, Music

    Self