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Steve Hamilton is an award winning composer and saxophonist.
He has worked on hundreds of TV and film soundtracks, commercials,
multi-platinum selling albums and world tours.
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Composer
Biography and Credits
As a Composer
Steve Hamilton has achieved international success writing and producing music for TV commercials, short films, documentaries and brand films. He won The New York Film Festival music award in 2004 and 2008, Best Short at The Los Angeles Film Festival and The Rhode Island Film Festival in 2010, and Best Film at The 48hour Film Challenge in 2004. The Baghdad Blogger - Salam Pax, a series he scored for BBC's Newsnight, won a Royal Television Society Award in 2005. In 2006 he wrote the music for A Doctor’s Story for the BBC which won an Emmy.
Clients have included: Ribeye films Wmh Studio 9 films BBC 1 BBC 2 Channel 4 Little Green Island Films The Perfect Music Company Beetroot Rainey Kelly Eclectic The Leith Agency Guardian Films McCann and BBH.
As a Saxophonist
Steve has recorded and toured with artists including Amy Winehouse Aretha Franklin Alicia Keys The Auteurs Blur Anastasia Andy Burrows Beyonce Bono Brian May Corinne Bailey Rae The Beloved Chaka Khan Curtiss Stigers The Disconauts Denai Moore Fish Gary Barlow The High llamas Tony Hadley Jamelia Jimmy Cliff Jimmy Sommerville King Krule Lionel Richie Mark King Miss Dynamite Madeline Bell Madness Mica Paris Mel C Night Works The Pet Shop Boys Paul Young Roy Wood Roger Daltrey Rick Astley The Ralfe Band Radiohead Roger Taylor Stereolab Swing Out Sister Stevie Wonder The SAS Band Snowboy Stereophonics Tom Robinson Tina Turner The Temptations The Wildhearts Zucchero Ray Davis Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Tom Grennan Disclosure The Feeling
He's also played on hundreds of film soundtracks and TV commercials and themes. In addition to the saxophone he plays flute, clarinet, bass clarinet and Xaphoon.
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