John Hardy Music
John Hardy, Hugh Fowler & Johanna Ballou
w: www.johnhardymusic.com
Biography
John Hardy is a long established composer who comfortably inhabits many different styles of work. John has been commissioned to write many choral and orchestral works for live performance as well as undertaking literally hundreds of musical projects for TV, film, radio, theatre and other multimedia applications. Musically, the company covers a wide variety of stylistic bases from lush large scale orchestral and choral works to quirky and innovative hip hop.
Winner of Best Original Music, BAFTA Cymru 2003 for Series 2 of the zany psychodrama series Fondue, Rhiw A Deinosors [Fondue, Sex & Dinosaurs]. Winner of Best Original Music, BAFTA Cymru 1994 for the Oscar-nominated,RTS Best Drama, & multi-BAFTA winning Welsh film Hedd Wyn. Nominated for Best Original Music nomination [for Triongl] BAFTA Cymru 2004.
John has scored many features, including the British commercial film Rancid Aluminium (staring Rhys Ifans, Steven Berkoff, Tara Fitzgerald & Sadie Frost) in 2000 and the Oscar nominated Welsh film Hedd Wyn, which won the RTS best drama award, and a string of other awards.
List of Work
Past highlights include:
Dawn – winner of the DM Davies award2005 and BAFTA Cymru winner Best Short Film 2006
A Mind To Kill - still showing around the world starring Philip Madoc as Inspector Bain, for Five, Pearson International, HTV-Carlton & S4C.
The five hour-long documentaries Egypt Uncovered for the Discovery Channel, France 5, S4C & seen around the world; now released as a set of 3 DVD/ 3 VHS by Readers’ Digest, and playing again on Discovery/Times in North America.
Under Milk Wood 90’ drama for BBC Radio 4’s 50th anniversary production, TX: Radio 4, Oct ’03. dir. Alison Hindell, starring the voice of Richard Burton [recorded 1963], with newly recorded voices of Sian Phillips, Matthew Rhys, Glyn Houston, John Humphrys, & other Welsh stars.
A Clockwork Orange [90’] by Anthony Burgess, dir. Alison Hindell, TX: Radio 4, Dec ’97 - Still available by mail order from BBC – Radio Collection, ISBN 0563557079, 2 CDs.
Other Hardy compositions are available as production [library] music on Music House through EMI, on behalf of BBC Music Publishing [BBC Worldwide] via BMGZomba, and on the Sain label.
Recent selected works include:
True Horror with Anthony Head
(DISCOVERY/October Films)
Colin & Cumberland
(BBC ONE Winner of two awards at the 2006 Celtic Film Festival; two nominations at BAFTA CYMRU April 2006)
The Rugby World Cup: England's Story
(BBC ONE)
Ellen MacArthur: In the Eye of the Storm
(BBC ONE)
Stalin: Inside the Terror
(BBC TWO)
Hidden Gardens
(BBC TWO)
Mountains and Man
(Discovery Channel)
POWs of the American Revolution
(History Channel USA)
In Parenthesis
(BBC Radio 3 - verse drama bringing to life action in battle in First World War, based on prose-poem by writer/painter David Jones. Music highly praised by Sue Arnold in The Observer, Nov'04)
The Gate
(Psycho-dream thriller drama for BBC Radio 3)
Under Milk Wood [50th anniversary production]
(BBC Radio 4)
Fondue Series 3
(BAFTA Cymru Best Orginal Music award winner)
Jacob's Ladder
(ITV / Dutch TV)
When the Romans came to Wales
(Channel 4)
Merlin and the Dragon
(Animation short / Channel 4)
Painting Flowers
(BBC TWO / BBC FOUR)
Memories Of Dreams
(Documentary by Toni Strasburg for South African & French TV )
Sunny Side Up
(Short comedy film, directed by Simon Ludders, D.M.Davies Award winner 2004 )
Gem Y Ganrif [Game Of The Century]
(S4C - dramatised documentary about the famous rugby international in 1905 when the all conquering All Blacks team were beaten by a whisker by Wales - Winner of Spirit Of The Festival Award at Celtic Film Festival 2006)
For a full listing of his works, please visit the website.
Samples
1) The Slips
2) Betrayal
3) Prelude - Not Darkness but Twilight
Contact
a: Chapter, Market Road, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
t: mobile: 07710 237629, studio: 029 2031 1050 ext. 233
e: hugh@johnhardymusic.com
