Possessing a hugely unique and inventive way with composition and songwriting, David is an award-winning composer who has scored more than 100 film and television projects. These range from feature films, through animated kids shows to landmark documentary and drama series. He is just as comfortable writing a full orchestral score as he is creating a lo-fi textural piece. Being an accomplished multi-instrumentalist (piano, guitars & bass, clarinet & sax, voice), David is always able to bring real and organic elements into his scores.

Ever since he started composing, David has shown an unusual degree of musical eclecticism. As a teenager, he wrote an hour-long Requiem Mass for choir and orchestra (mostly during GSCE maths lessons), while at the same time being the guitarist and songwriter in a pop band with a cult local following.

David studied Music at New College, Oxford, where he played in bands and continued to write orchestral music at the same time as experimenting with electro-acoustics. After scoring his first film, he went to the National Film and Television School, where he studied Screen Music, working on a wide range of projects. He collaborated several times with the director Emily James, writing music and lyrics for a number of award-winning musical documentaries, including Wag the Dogma, A Brief History of Cuba in D minor, and The Luckiest Nut in the World. In these projects, David combined humorous lyrics and catchy tunes, with serious factual subject matter. This unique juxtaposition also led to the commissioning of ArtSongs, a CD of songs about art commissioned by the Tate Gallery.

In the last ten years David has become one of the go-to composers to create strong memorable songs and scores for animation. After working on the music for Charlie & Lola (winner of Best Original Score at the RTS Craft Awards in 2007), David wrote the soundtracks for The Cat in Hat Knows A Lot About That! (the title theme of which was nominated for an Emmy), Mike the Knight, Angry Birds, Q Pootle 5, Miffy, Bob The Builder, Digby Dragon, Olobob Top and Aliens Love Underpants.

David wrote epic scores for the feature films, Day of Wrath (a historical drama starring Christopher Lambert) and Silence Becomes You (a thriller starring Alicia Silverstone and Sienna Guillory) and Russell Howard’s film, A Gert Lush Christmas. He has also created intricate and unique soundtracks for a number of landmark BBC documentary series, including Wonders of Life (with Brian Cox), Richard Hammond’s Invisible Worlds, Inside the Human Body and Britain from Above (with Andrew Marr). All these scores have combined orchestral themes with electronic and frequently experimental styles.

Over the past year, as well as his continuing work on animation scores, David has been working in TV drama, writing additional music for The White Princess (for John Lunn) and Victoria (for Ruth Barrett). Under the moniker of In Analysis, and using his collection of vintage synthesizers, he has also released a concept album of songs about mothers, based on stories people have written in anonymously.