Patrick Doyle

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Patrick Doyle (born 6 April 1953) is a Scottish film composer.

Doyle, a long-time collaborator of actor Kenneth Branagh (1989), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Hamlet (1996), and Gosford Park (2001), as well as Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), both 2011).

Doyle has been nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award for "outstanding contributions to the field of film and television music."

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Life and career

Doyle was born in Uddingston, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, on April 6, 1953. He is a classically trained composer who received his diploma from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music, where he was appointed a Fellow in 2001.

Doyle appeared in several productions, including Hamlet, As You Like It, and Look Back in Anger, Kenneth Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company in 1987 as composer and musical director. Doyle began his relationship with Kenneth Branagh, who directed his first film, Henry V, in 1989. The 1989 Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Theme was later given to Henry V's song "Non Nobis, Domine." He has since written for fourteen more Kenneth Branagh films, including Dead Again (1991), Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Mary Shelley's (1994), As You Like It (2006), Murder on the Orient Express (2016), and Artemis Fowl (2017).

Doyle was diagnosed with leukemia in October 1997, just after composing for Great Expectations, directed by Alfonso Cuarón. Although not undergoing surgery, he managed to write the entire score for the animated fantasy Quest for Camelot (1998) in hospital, and he eventually recovered.

Some of Doyle's films in the 1990s have since been turned into cult gangster films, including Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way (1993) and Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco (1997).

Doyle went on to write for iconic British films such as Bridget Jones' Diary (2001), Gosford Park (2001) and Calendar Girls (2003) in the 2000s.

Doyle scored Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005, working with Mike Newell once more.

He wrote scores for Hollywood blockbusters including Thor (2011), Rise of the Apes (2011), and Cinderella (2015).

Doyle's other notable contributions include scores for family films such as Brave (2012), Nanny McPhee (2005), and A Little Princess (1995).

Doyle has appeared in several films directed by Régis Wargnier, including Indochine (1992), Une femme française (1995), and Est-ouest (1999). Both Doyle's scores for Indochine and Est-ouest were nominated for the César Award for Best Music Written for a Film.

Doyle lives with his wife Lesley, with whom he has four children.

Doyle often collaborates with artists from other fields in his scores. Plácido Domingo of the classical music world performed "In Pace" on Hamlet and Jane Eaglen's "Weep You No More Sad Fountains" on Sense & Sensibility, with both films receiving Doyle Award nominations for Best Film Score.

Doyle, Robertson, collaborated with Jarvis Cocker on Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, as well as Pulp and Tori Amos on Great Expectations.

On the Orient Express, Doyle co-wrote the song "Never Forget" with Kenneth Branagh for Murder, which was performed by Michelle Pfeiffer.

In 2013 Patrick Doyle's Music from the Movies concert, in aid of Leukaemia Research UK, was held at the Royal Albert Hall. It was directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Daniel Hill, and it featured performances from Emma Thompson, Sir Derek Jacobi, Dame Judi Dench, Alan Rickman, Richard E. Grant, Adrian Lester, and Robbie Coltrane, as well as music from Doyle's recordings performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.

In two concerts at the Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow in 2019, Doyle's work was performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Dirk Brossé. The first live performance of Doyle's "British Brave" (Gay's Brave) on Glasgow Concert Hall was the world's first live performance to film of the music Doyle composed for Pixar's Brave. "Patrick Doyle – A Celebration" and second live work by Doyle for the concert performed by the Glasgow City Halls included two original works by Doyle for the concert: "Sweet Rois of Vertew" and "Scottish Overture." This concert also featured "Corcortarsik," a solo violin piece he created for Emma Thompson's 50th birthday.

Doyle has created numerous original concert pieces. "The Thistle and the Rose," a song cycle commissioned by Prince Charles in honor of the Queen Mother's 90th birthday, performed by George Martin and premiered by Kate Winslet; and "Tam O Shanter," commissioned by the Scottish Schools Orchestra Trust.

Doyle was hired by the Syracuse International Film Festival to produce a film score for the classic silent film "It" in 2012.

Several French film festivals have welcomed Doyle as their guest of honor, including Festival international du film d'Aubagne, where Cinderella was shown, Festival International Musique et Cinéma, and the 1er Salon du Cinema in Abu Dhabi.

Varèse Sarabande released Impressions of America, Doyle's original concert suite, in 2013. In 2012, the National Schools Symphony Orchestra, of which Doyle is a patron, made its world premiere.

Doyle released works from his film scores to date, as well as Varèse Sarabande's.

Doyle contributed the opening track "Château Ferguson" to the album Fresh Air... Breathe In in support of the COVID-19 pandemic, the artist was born in the United States.

Doyle was given the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award in June 2013 for his "outstanding contributions and contributions to the field of film and television music." "Patrick Doyle's extensive body of work is some of the most influential and impactful in the industry," ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams said. He's a natural performer in film, television, and beyond, which is why he's been able to score everything from Carlito's Way to Harry Potter to "The Goblet of Fire."

At the Gent Film Festival in Belgium, Doyle received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Soundtrack Academy in October 2015.

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