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New year resolution - Update
this website at least twice a year - Wishing you all a Beautiful Christmas and a fantastic 2014 -
August - About to start scoring
a 4 part series for Channel 4 about West End
musicals plus a 1 hour documentary for ITV
directed by Lana Salah. May / June - Starting work on
14 hours of TV - 2 BBC two series, a 1 hour BBC
one documentary plus a 7 part for Ch4.
- The
Murder Workers has been selected for the Sheffield Doc
Fest April - The TV series
Great Ormond Street Hospital, for which I wrote
the music last year, got nominated for a BAFTA April - scoring a series
of TV commercials for the Iglo advertising
campaign in Germany, Austria, Holland and
Belgium.
My Homefront score got a few nice reviews by Steven Kennedy, David Doncel and Michael Beek at FSM, BSO Spirit and BeekBlog respectively. Plus it made it to the Best Of 2012 on Tim Burden's feature at Film Score Monthly.
October - I have a
new library album out, on the Universal
label
October
2012 - finishing the last episode of ITV
drama Homefront, the score for a brilliant
Ch4 documentary about the US election and
the score for a BBC 2 hour epic documentary
about International Aid.
Also about to start on a new Cutting Edge Ch4 documentary and soon on another for BBC one.
one of my recent tracks being
played by the London Metropolitan Orchestra
Short video of my latest recording
session, for ITV drama series Homefront,
plus;
an epic 2hour feature length
documentary for BBC about International Aid
a Cutting Edge documentary for Channel 4 about Ian Brady and another 1 hour documentary for Channel 4 about the US election.
October - started scoring another 4 part series for BBC and have closed shop again, since I am now writing music for 3 BBC series. September - How Much For My Brother? - a short film, directed by Joe Tucker, I wrote the music for has been selected by the London Film Festival  September - now scoring a 2 part about Shakespeare, presented by Simon Schama, for BBC 1 and 6 part for BBC 2 about Great Ormond Street Hospital
July
- accepted one more and am now scoring a
documentary about the Ground Zero mosque
(Frontline / Channel 4), directed by Dan Reed. May
- I am now booked flat out until January 2012
and can't accept any new comissions. Sorry. May - have been made a full voting member of BAFTA April
- scoring 2 documentaries for Ch4, writing the
music for a TV commercial and some library
tracks. Thank God for coffee! March
-
my
music
for
The
Battle
of
Britain
won
Best
feature
documentary
Soundtrack
at
Movie
Music
UK
"Young Portuguese composer Miguel
d’Oliveira impressed greatly in the documentary
category with his score for BATTLE OF BRITAIN, a
BBC documentary which looked at the famous World
Ward II air conflict with new perspective;
d’Oliveira’s music channelled the best of Ron
Goodwin-style British heroism and
pomp-and-circumstance, but distilled
it through modern techniques to great effect"
Jon Broxton,
Movie Music UK 2011
February - my music for The
Battle of Britain got nominated for
February - interview on Soundtrack with
John Mansell February - started work on a
Channel 4' Cutting Edge documentary for Blakeway
Productions. January 2011 - Music journalist
Tim Burden, from Film Score Monthly, names The Battle of
Britain score as one of the 10 Best
Scores of 2010
November 2010 - accepted a new commission to score a 1 hour BBC programme about the King James Bible (BBC productions - Manchester), presented by Melvyn Bragg November 2010 - I have been asked to score another Cutting Edge documentary for channel 4, shooting early next year. I have been invited to conduct a
series of workshops about music technology at the
Horniman Museum in London,
probably starting early January 2011.
September 2010 - I have accepted
a new comission to score a BBC documentary about
Icelandic sagas. Looking forward to this one. September 2010 - some of my
music is being used on a couple of videos (Two's a pair) that are being
screened at the V&A this Friday the 23rd
(part of the London Design Festival) August 2010 - accepted a new comission - 2 episode documentary for BBC 2 about children in care (BBC productions - Scotland), with Neil Morrissey August 2010 - Have started work
on a Nom yogurt TV advert (Ogilvy) and 4 episodes
of The Gates of Latin America (Wall to Wall) August 2010 - Stopped this
nonsense of writing in the third person July 2010 - started scoring The Battle of Britain (Lion Television), with Ewan McGregor, for BBC 1 July 2010 - Miguel has been commissioned to write the score for a 4 part mini-series The Gates of Latin America for PBS. July 2010 - scoring How Much For My Brother?, a dark comedy directed by Joe Tucker (JokeDisco Films / Film London) June 2010 - started a new score for the Channel 4 documentary, Interview With an Incubator
March 2010 - wrapping the Cutting Edge score and starting a 2 episode score for the series America The Story Of US (History Channel) January 2010 - starting work on a 1 hour
Cutting Edge documentary for Channel 4, The Air
Hospital, about the C-CAST Globemaster missions in
Afghanistan November 09 - scoring 7 part series The Bible: a history for
Channel 4, writing additional music for the
second BBC series of Merlin, scoring 3 part BBC
documentary about the Great Ormond Street
Hospital and also working on The Living Artist
for ABC Australia August 09 -
As final proof that no one reads this website
anyway, Miguel has just been asked to score a
7 part series for Channel 4 about the history
of the Bible and a documentary for ABC network June 09 -
Miguel has been asked to score a 3 part
documentary for BBC 2
April 09 -
Miguel started scoring 5 part docu drama The Queen
for Channel 4 March 09 - Victorian Sex Explorer wins Royal Television Society award for Best history documentary
January 2009 - Miguel has also started work on a
new 2 part documentary for PBS NOVA (US). October 08 - Miguel is scoring a couple of
episodes of BBC one's new drama Merlin and has also been 20th June - SOLSTICE art installation opens in London - Classic FM interview June 08 - Miguel is scoring a BBC documentary
about the hair trade and has been commissioned to
write the May 08 - Miguel has just scored The Victorian Sex Explorer,
a documentary for Channel 4 February 08 - Miguel is presently score
producing and orchestrating the soundtrack for
Michael Winterbottom's
d o w n l o a d s
Please find the link to the score by clicking on the text or album cover above 9
tracks plus album cover (2nd July 2010)
p r e s s Homefront ★★★ "Another emotionally
engaging drama from the U.K. that is yet
to appear in the U.S.,Homefront follows
six army wives over the course of its
six-episode Season 1 run. The ITV
program features music by Miguel
d’Oliveira, who crafts some wonderful
orchestral music with thematic
connections that make for an enjoyable
if brief listening experience. Steven A.
Kennedy, Film
Score Monthly 2013
Homefront Miguel
is forging an enviable composing career, through
no less than very hard work and a lot of skill.
A ‘Jerry Goldsmith Award’ for Battle of Britain,
a fantastic orchestral score for BBC One’s
documentary about the legendary air battle and
presented by Ewan McGregor (the doc, not the
award) was a pinnacle for the Portuguese
composer who now calls London home. Crafting
score after score for Channel Four’s Cutting
Edge and a host of factual features and series
for the BBC – including Great Ormond Street
Hospital, Shakespeare and Us and the recent The
American Road Trip: Obama’s Story – have given
Miguel the basis for a fine career and the
projects only seem to get bigger and better.
This summer he turned in his first TV drama
score, for ITV1’s Homefront, and with the London
Metropolitan Orchestra at his disposal the
composer impressed the producers, and this lowly
writer. I just know that this will be first of
many dramatic scores from Miguel d’Oliveira. Michael
Beek, BeekBlog,
2013 Shakespeare & Us
★★★★ The composer is far from the normal conventions in the music for documentaries and applies a diverse and deliberately scattered, unstructured score, which globally is unpredictable and chaotic, at times exquisitely refined and in others simple and superficial. He references circumstantially Renaissance music but also he is experimental; he is in some themes melodic and atonal in others, but he achieves that most of his themes have its own entity and, altogether, stand and show the complexity and heterogeneity of what is narrated in the documentary. Conrado
Xalabarder, Mundo
BSO
Young Portuguese composer Miguel d’Oliveira
impressed greatly in the documentary category
with his score for BATTLE OF BRITAIN, a BBC
documentary which looked at the famous World
Ward II air conflict with new perspective;
d’Oliveira’s music channelled the best of Ron
Goodwin-style British heroism and
pomp-and-circumstance, but distilled
it through modern techniques to great
effect" Jon Broxton, Movie Music UK 2011 "It is the use of the human
voice that, as well as the innovative and the
interesting use of a plethora of instruments,
that lingers in the memory once the album has
ended"
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