DOM SHOVELTON

Music composition & production to picture, media & events.
Sound design & 5.1 mix capable.

Dom's past includes the classical cello, followed by most kinds
of guitar and bass. He also co-wrote and performed with Nitin
Sawhney/Trilok Gurtu veteran Sanchita Farruque. After a stint
signed to Revco Records he started writing music commercially,
and was hired by theatre director Robert Delamere as his
composer for the stage, writing the scores for plays performed
at the Donmar Warehouse, the Hampstead Theatre, Liverpool
Everyman and the National Theatre of Craoiva. This experience
stood him in good stead for composing subsequent scores for
large-scale events such as Zoomorphic at the V&A and Zurich
Bank's extravaganzas in the Arizona desert. In the meantime his
roster of clients for TV idents, corporate films and advertising
grew, and he diversified into composing scores for short films.
These include award winning films for Nokia, Bentley, Lexus,
HSBC, Samsung, Toyota, Rio Tinto, Winter Olympics 2010,
Wella, BUPA, BT, Laing, Ericsson & more recently Olympic
Broadcast Service Identities for the 2012 Olympics in London,
plus launch themes for the new Jaguar F-Type & Generation 4
Range Rover autumn 2012.
With a large body of commercial projects behind him, Dom still
composes for TV and advertising - expanding from his largely
UK client case to include a series of TV Channel Branding
projects for Saudi TV. He has also recently been working with
the acclaimed chamber ensemble CHROMA, with his piece “The
Longing” for string trio premiered in 2009 and a new piece for
tango sextet premiered in June 2010. CHROMA also performed
& recorded Dom's music for the Ericsson Brand Film -
Networked Society.
He continues to collaborate with Sanchita Farruque (lyricist &
vocalist), Eric Appapoulay (MPG award winning multi-
instrumentalist) & David McEwan (MPG award winning
producer & mix engineer).

Freelance Composer & Music Producer