Dave Hewson (composer)

David Graham Hewson is a British composer of scores for television and films.

Hewson began composing at the age of 11, influenced by his primary school music education, which had been based entirely on the Schulwerk. This influence stayed with David and shaped a lot of his much later music. During his time in primary school, he also started to receive piano lessons from the renowned classical concert pianist and teacher Christine Gough.

In his late teens he studied composition with Professor Richard Arnell, a former pupil of John Ireland at Trinity College of Music, London, and enrolled in a part time courses on electronic music with Tristram Cary at the Royal College of Music. After gaining his B.Ed (Hon) he taught music for six years, and during this time built up a large repertoire of compositions, for chamber solo and instrumental combinations including vocal music.

Compositions

Hewson now works from his own fully computerised composing studio in East Sussex where he pursues a full-time job as a composer.

His television commissions have covered a wide spectrum. He is mostly called upon to score Drama-Documentary, particularly covering human aspects and emotional content. He is one of the most prolific writers for film and television in the country. His KPM Library music CDs are used all over the world to score an enormous variety of productions. He is also well known for his arrangements and versions of the music for the ITV News at Ten, and all of the regional news broadcast by ITV for the whole of the UK.

Overview of works

Theme tunes

• The Selina Scott Show
• Summer with Selik (NRK Norway)(Best Film of the Year. Sold to 64 countries worldwide)
• First Edition (channel 4)
• English Villages (Reader's Digest)
• The U-Boat War (Discovery Channel)
• If I Ruled the World (BBC)
• The Storm (Channel 4)
• Two the Ends of the Earth (Discovery)
• Mysteries of the Mummies (Discovery)
• Homicide in Kennewick (Channel 4 Equinox)
• The Windsor's (Channel 4)
• In the Footsteps of Elizabeth David (Arts and Entertainment channel)
• Hunting Hitler (Arts and Entertainment channel)
• A Biography of Princess Margaret (Channel 5)
• Air Rage (Channel 5)
• James Bulger (Channel 5)
• Talk TV (Channel 5)
• ITV News at Ten - 1992 and 2008 (ITN/ITV)
• ITV News - 1995, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2009 (ITN/ITV)
• News and Views (ITN News Channel/ITN)
• Self Experimenters (Channel 4 Equinox)
• History of the Future
• Lifeline (Carlton)
• Election 2001 (ITN/ITV)
• Election 2005 (ITN/ITV)
• Election 2010 (ITN/ITV)
• Don Roaming (Channel 4)
• The Michael Watson Story
• Search for the Nort West Passage (Channel 4)
• Blitz (Channel 4)
• I Shouldn't Be Alive (Discovery Channel)
• Howard's Way (BBC)
• Morley Brothers (Channel 4)
• Heaven Man Earth (Channel 4)
• Six Into One (Channel 4)
• The MTM Story (Channel 4)
• The Scars of War (Channel 4)
• Police Action Live (ITV)
• Century
• Willie's War
• Speed Kings
• BBC Arabic TV and Radio

John Halas films

• Dilemma (with Richard Arnell)
• Doctor in the Sky (with Richard Arnell)
• Toulouse Lautrec (with Richard Arnell)
• The Light of the World (with Richard Arnell)

Albums

• The Science of Uncertainty

Concerts

• concerto for oboe
• War God II (Richard Arnell) at St. John's Smith Square, London (contributor)
• Twenty-Four Hours in TT Scale (Co-writer with Richard Arnell)

External links

• Official website
• David Hewson discography at Discogs
• David Hewson at the Internet Movie Database

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