Philip Sheppard

Tag: strings

  • Grammy News with Odesza!

    Grammy News with Odesza!

    ODESZA’s third studio album, A Moment Apart, came out on September 8, 2017. This album marks my second collaboration with the Seattle-based electronic music duo. I scored and performed the strings for 3 of the tracks on the album: Line of Sight, Higher Ground, and Just A Memory.
    And now there’s some BIG news…

    The album has just been nominated for two Grammy Awards! I’m stoked about this as I’m a huge fan of what Harrison and Clay create and they’re constantly on rotation on my playlists despite the fact there are some noises by me in their tracks!

  • Somewhere Along The Edge- track by track – part one

    Somewhere Along The Edge- track by track – part one

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    This is a track from my new album – Somewhere Along The Edge. The album was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in September 2016 and is my first studio album away from a specific movies soundtrack for some time.
    Each track is dedicated to someone who lives fully at the edge of life— whether explorers, artists, travellers, thinkers…
    This is dedicated to the amazing artist, technologist, fellow cellist, drone pilot, underwater photographer and more importantly, great friend, Eric Cheng.
    His photography is exquisite – echengphoto.com/index

    If you would like a free review copy then please comment below and I’ll send you a code by return.

    Philip Sheppard October 2016

    Somewhere Along The Edge on iTunes
    https://exit.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fitun.es%2Fus%2F1S4Teb
    Somewhere Along The Edge on Bandcamp
    http://philipsheppard.bandcamp.com/…/somewhere-along-the-ed…
    Somewhere Along The Edge On Spotify

  • Philip Sheppard’s new ballet

    Philip Sheppard’s new ballet

    I’ve written a new ballet score for the wonderful Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin. It’s choreographed by Thomas Noone and is titled Many. I’m simply thrilled to have worked on this. Here are some excerpts from the piece: [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/33203616″ params=”show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=3d0ac7″ width=”100%” height=”81″ ][soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/33201531″ params=”show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=3d0ac7″ width=”100%” height=”81″ ] If you like it do download – you can do that by clicking on the files… but drop me a note to say hi! If you like my music I have some albums on bandcamp and iTunes. Here’s a press release from Faber Music;

    In recent months, the name of UK composer and cellist, Philip Sheppard, has been very much in the media: a result of him having being commissioned to arrange and orchestrate all the national anthems for the London 2012 Olympics. He’s now recorded them all (205 in total!) with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. However, Sheppard has also found time to complete a 30-minute commissioned dance score for Barcelona-based choreographer, Thomas Noone.

    It’s premiered in Mulhouse by Le Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin on 22 January 2012, later transferring to Colmar and Strasbourg (9 performances in total). Sheppard has an impressive track record in writing for dance and theatre, having worked with Akram Khan, Sylvie Guillem and Juliette Binoche in recent years. In January 2012 he joins Khan and Guillem for performances of his 2006 score to ‘Sacred Monsters’, in the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris.

  • Simply Strings – new album

     

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    Here’s a new album I’ve just recorded for Universal, produced by Roberto Borzoni.

    The players are:

    Violin I: Janice Graham, Magnus Johnston, Annabelle Meare, Kathy Gowers, Marije Ploemacher
    Violin Ii: Thomas Kemp,helen Paterson, Fiona Mcnaught, Maya Bickel
    Viola: Garfield Jackson, Timothy Grant, Paul Cassidy
    Cello: William Schofield, Zoe Martlew, Jacqueline Thomas
    Double Bass: Luis Cabrera
    Solo Cello & Electric Cello: Philip Sheppard
    Hope you like it…!
  • New track – Take my Hand

    New track – Take my Hand

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    If you like this then try this tune too…

    I send my friends & subscribers my new tracks as I write them – click here for free mp3s

  • Steampunk strings

    Steampunk strings


    Here’s a sketch I’m working inspired by the incident at the Gare de l’Ouest. A touch of Victorian melodrama with a steampunk symphony orchestra…
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  • Piano and string orchestra

    Another amazing image by Trey
    Another amazing image by Trey

    Here’s a piece I recently recorded for Piano and string orchestra called Remember me this way [Audio http://radiomovies.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/14-the-tomb-of-glenn-gould.mp3]

    If you’d like a copy click here for simple instructions!

    I wanted to write something optimistic and melancholy at the same time – playful, but with an undercurrent of an elegy. Not sure if I got there!

    I heard a lovely eulogy the other day, where someone I’d been very fortunate to know was described as ‘a man with no corners’. What a great way to be remembered!