Dan Jones (Sound)

Dan Jones read music at Oxford University where he graduated with first class honours. He received the Ralph Vaughan Williams Electro-Acoustic Scholarship 1995 which he spent at the Centro Richerche Musicali in Rome. Having accumulated an extensive list of television and theatre credits since the mid-1990s, Dan has more recently emerged as one of Britain's most admired and sought-after film composers. His score for Max, Menno Meyjes' controversial first feature about the early years of Hitler, starring John Cusack and Noah Taylor, received the 2004 Ivor Novello Award for 'Best Score for a Feature Film'. Other film credits include Shadow of the Vampire, the inaugural feature from Nicolas Cage's Saturn Films, starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe, and Francesca Joseph's Tomorrow La Scala! (BBC Films), which was selected for the Un-Certain Regard slot at Cannes 2002. His most recent film credit isthe Anglo-Spanish co-production Manolete, starring Penelope Cruz and Adrien...Read More