Patrick Doyle

 

[1953 -] Graduated in voice and piano in the mid-70s, Scottish composer Patrick Doyle joined the film market as a consequence with his partnership with actor and director Kenneth Branagh. Doyle joined Branagh´s theater group as music director and also as an actor. It would be natural to compose the soundtrack for the first film Branagh directed, Henry V (1989). The movie naturally conduced director and composer on other projects. Both worked together in Dead Again (1991), Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994) and Hamlet (1996). Doyle is one of the most creative and efficient composers in symphonic idiom operating in the contemporary market and expand his work to other films as Needful Things (1993) Carlito's Way (1993), Sense and Sensibility (1996), Man to Man (2005), and the animation Brave (2011), always with evident refinement.