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Nigel Hess studied music at Cambridge University where he was musical director of the "Footlights Revue Company". Since leaving Cambridge he has sustained an active composing career for the stage, for television and with a more recent introduction to film. From 1981-85 he was Music Director and composer for the Royal Shakespeare Company on productions such as "Much Ado About Nothing", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Julis Caesar" and "Othello". His numerous credits for television have largely been for dramatic series and mini-series, including "A Woman of Substance", "Vanity Fair", "Campion", "Maigret", "Just William" "Testament", and "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates". Hess scored the...

With 8 albums to his credit, recent high profile TV collaborations with the BBC, and a new and growing audience in the dance / rave scene boosting his traditional, long standing folk / roots / progressive following, Mazlyn Jones is perhaps at last on the verge of getting the wider acclaim and recognition that critics have often felt he deserves. His combination of natural acoustic guitar sounds and electric textures along with his playing of the Indian santor give him a unique sound. Without tapes or synthesizers he combines brilliant guitar playing with powerful and evocative visuals that emphasise the...

Nigel Eaton is a British hurdy gurdy player. He played piano and 'cello, moving to the hurdy-gurdy when his father, Christopher Eaton, started to make them in 1981. In 1985 he joined the group Blowzabella with whom he has toured extensively in Britain, Europe and South America and recorded three albums. He studied baroque music repertoire and technique for the hurdy-gurdy with Doreen Muskett at the Guildhall School of Music and contemporary hurdy-gurdy techniques with Valentin Clastrier in France. In 1986 he won the hurdy-gurdy soloists competition at the St. Chartier Hurdy-Gurdy & Bagpipe Festival, France; following this up in...

Nigel Stanford is a New Zealand composer, best known for his soundtrack for the movie TimeScapes directed by Tom Lowe, as well as his music videos Cymatics and Automatica. Discography: Timescapes (2012) Solar Echoes (2014) Automatica (2017) .