Composer/ Orchestrator/ Arranger
Credits for Film/TV include Toast, In The Night Garden, Tronji (BBC), Eragon, Harry Potter & The Golbet of Fire, The Golden Boy. Credits for Popular Music Arrangements include Pavarotti, Simply Red & Saint Saviour.
James McWilliam is a composer, arranger and orchestrator based in central London. James’ professional career began at Metropolis Studios in 2000 after forging a strong working relationship with producer Andy Wright for whom he has written countless arrangements including tracks for Pavarotti, Simply Red and Jeff Beck. At a similar time Andy introduced James to David Whitaker, one of the country’s foremost film composers and arrangers. After 10 years they still have a close working relationship and James has worked as David’s assistant on a number of film scores and pop arrangements.
In 2005 James began work with the Oscar winning film composer Dario Marianelli and film composer Patrick Doyle. Working with the latter enabled James to get his first taste of orchestrating on Hollywood film scores including Harry Potter, As You Like It and Last Legion. James has also written a number of arrangements for Warner Entertainment, Universal Music and Endemol TV.
Recent and current work includes … Orchestrating the score for forthcoming film ‘Les Kaira’ for composer Eric Neveux, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall, BBC Drama Toast for Ruby Productions (Orchestrations), Composing the score for a forthcoming feature on Ipcress, orchestrating/conducting arrangements on a forthcoming studio album from Mick Hucknall, orchestrating for composer Richard Blackford on a TV project for ZDF, conducting the Royal Philharmonic & the London Session Orchestra during sessions at Abbey Road, scoring BBC One Children’s TV show Tronji and arranging the opening theme of the BAFTA winning Children’s TV Show, ‘In The Night Garden’ for a concert at the Royal Festival Hall performed by The London Philharmonic Orchestra.
James has an MA in Composition from Goldsmiths College and a BA from Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.
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