Michael Walters

Music Composer

Romsey, United Kingdom

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About Michael

Classically trained, Michael is a vastly experienced composer, orchestrator and conductor who holds a Doctorate in composition (Leeds) in addition to numerous Fellowship awards. His catalogue of chamber music is published globally and he has been fortunate to receive three Royal Premieres, in addition to several broadcasts on national radio and television.

In 2010, he orchestrated numerous tracks for the Columbia Artists US touring show Celtic Circle before becoming increasingly in demand for production music. More recently he composed the winning entry to the ThinkSpace Trailer Competition (‘The Edge’); a score which also made the final at the Short Sounds Film Festival in 2017. In 2016 he scored the Nanyang animation ‘Girl Upstairs’, the Kamoon Film short ‘Bragging Rights’ and the drama ‘Red Hoodie’ by Paternoster Productions.

2017 brought opportunities to score the dark drama ‘Hookworm’ (BFI premiere) and 'Beyond the Horizon' (RTS Nomination), in addition to numerous library placements on BBC and other primetime TV channels.

2018 saw Michael scoring the sci-fi thriller 'Forward Fix', the latest offering from Paternoster Productions, in addition to more success at the Short Sounds Film Festival with ‘Tundra’ bringing home the Best Score spoils.

2019 has so far seen Michael scoring the comedy ‘The Witch Hunters are Coming’, the children’s feature ‘Skullz’, in addition to serving as Music Editor on the indie feature ‘Dead Fred’.

Influenced by the likes of Olafur Arnalds and Johann Johannsson, Michael’s preferred style is very much about orchestral and synth subtlety; those ethereal ‘edge of audible’ timbres which often add a disproportionate amount of value to the narrative and sub-text in thrillers and dramas.

Full filmography and additional credits can be viewed on IMDb.

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The Witch Hunters are Coming (2019)
Film Composer
Skullz (2019)
Film Composer
Dead Fred (2019)
Film Music department
Dark Secrets (2018)
Film Composer
Forward Fix (2018)
Film Composer
Hookworm (2017)
Film (Drama, Romance, Thriller and Short) Composer Now Tamara is fully recovered, she is ready to heal her relationship with her wife, Miri. However, Miri keeps her distance, and an attempt to get the truth out leads to painful accusations, confessions of guilt, and a violent confrontation that could open a deeper, more permanent wound.
Bragging Rights (2016)
Film (Comedy and Short) Composer Add a Plot »
Red Hoodie (2016)
Film (short) by Paternoster Productions Composer
The Girl Upstairs (2016)
Film (short) by Nanyang Composer
Mirror Mirror (2016)
Drama by Kamoon Films Composer
The Wasteland
Film (Drama) Composer The Wasteland. A mystery thriller set in the Derbyshire Dales. The story follows the journey of Laurence, a loner, a man with a hidden past, who arrives in a small village on the offer of work from a local farmer Frank. Taking the job of rebuilding a field boundary stonewall, Laurence becomes intrigued with the mysterious figure of Holly, the wife of Frank, whose own troubles, both with depression and possible mental domestic abuse lead Laurence on a new journey , a journey that after time, he wishes he had not begun. Written by Stuart Wheeldon