Composers
Debbie Wiseman MBE
© Martyn Goddard
Born: 1963
Debbie Wiseman has composed over 100 scores for film and television productions including Brian Gilbert's Wilde and Tom and Viv, Lewis Gilbert's Haunted, Peter Kosminsky's Warriors and The Dying of the Light, Susan Streitfield's Female Perversions, In Defence, The Biographer, Tom's Midnight Garden, The Missing Postman, The Good Guys, The Upper Hand, A Week in Politics, Children's Hospital, The Churchills, The People's Century, Vets in Practice, Little Napoleons, Is it Legal?, Zoo, Resurrection, Death of Yugoslavia, Doomwatch, Shrinks, Family Life, The Second Russian Revolution, The Gettys, It Might Be You, Making Babies, Health & Efficiency, Loved By You, Deep In My Heart, The Dynasty: The Nehru-Gandhi Story, Bloom, Parking Wars, Postcards From The Edge, Hiroshima - The Decision To Drop The Bomb, Incident in Judea, Medicine Women, Tales of the Serengeti, The Cuban Missile Crisis, Absolute Truth, School Days, The Hidden Camera Show, Mirad - A Boy From Bosnia, Born To Be Wild: Operation Lemur with John Cleese and A Rap At The Door.Debbie has won and been nominated for numerous awards including Winner of TV Theme Music of the Year for The Good Guys in the 1993 Television & Radio Industry Club Awards, and Winner of Best Original Theme Music 1991 for Shrinks in the Silents to Satellite Awards. Debbie was nominated for the Rank Film Laboratories Award for Creative Originality in The Carlton Television Women in Film and Television Awards 1994 and nominated for Best Commissioned Score from a TV Production in the 1995 Ivor Novello Awards and the 1996 Royal Television Society Awards for Death of Yugoslavia. Wilde was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Film Score.Debbie has featured on numerous television and radio programmes including Call My Bluff (BBC TV), Gloria Hunniford's Open House, Mad About Music (BBC Radio 3), The Music Machine (Radio 3), The John Dunn Show (Radio 2), Every Note Paints a Picture (Radio 3), The Afternoon Shift (Radio 4), Woman's Hour (Radio 4), In Tune (Radio 3), Classic FM, London Today, Music File (BBC TV) and at The Royal Festival Hall's Screen Extravaganza concert as part of the UK centenary of the cinema celebrations.Debbie's settings of Oscar Wilde's fairy tales 'The Nightingale and the Rose' and 'The Selfish Giant' have been recorded by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Sir Neville Marriner with Stephen Fry and Vanessa Redgrave for Teldec. The album has been nominated for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for the 2002 Grammy Awards.Debbie presented the Channel 4 series Backtracks, examining the role of music in film and television productions.
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