Paul Mottram

Welcome to the site of the media and concert music composer, Paul Mottram.

Hear the new ‘drum n bass meets orchestra’ track Inferno and In Memoriam, co-written with Gareth Johnson (the man with the 'beats') and played by the RPO. These and more will shortly be released by Audio Network

2006 Television Credits include The Armstrongs (BBC2), Meerkat Manor (Animal Planet), World Cup Football Theme (UKTV) and commercials for Ambipur and Flash - Britain's Cleaner.

Paul's other credits include music for the comedy series People Like Us BBC2), Spooks (BBC1), Dr Who (BBC1), QI (BBC2), Bremner, Bird and Fortune (C4), documentaries such as Horizon (BBC2), Who do you think you are (BBC1) Vic Reeves Rogues Gallery (BBC3) and Ray Mears Bushcraft (BBC2) , in addition to numerous TV commercials such as Rover, Pizza Hut, Hitachi and Daihatsu. He has also written music for the Radio 4 comedy/dramas In the Red, Babblewick Hall, In the Balance and House of the Spirit Levels.

As an orchestrator he has worked on some notable feature films such as Chaplin , Rain Man, Shirley Valentine, Castaway, The Three Amigos, Valmont and High Spirits and has reconstructed some of William Walton and Malcolm Arnold’s ‘lost’ film scores of the 40’s and 50’s.

He also currently writes for media music libraries Boosey & Hawkes and Audio Network and some of his concert and educational music is published by Spartan Press.