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Tom Lawrence is the prize winning composer and music producer behind award winning and
multi-nominated films and TV series' (please see credits for a recent list). He is also the recipient of the
Adele Mellen Prize for 'outstanding work' (Edwin Mellen Press July 2008). Tom has worked with directors
for BBC, RTE, TG4, TV3, The History Channel and independent media such as Sarah Blunt (BBC Radio
4), Peter Carr (RTE), Brendan Culleton (Akajava Films), Martin Danneels (Red Pepper Productions), Bafta
winning director Tim Fernée (Moving Still Productions), Deffie Award winner and IFTA nominated Simon
Gibney (RTE), Diarmuid Goggins (TG4), Irina Maldea (Akajava Films), Kevin Lavelle (TG4), IFTA
nominated best director Paul Mercier (Solas Films, TG4), James Phelan (Great Western Films), Ross O'
Callahan & Aileen MacDonagh (Peer Pressure), Paul O'Flanagan (Boulder Media), Paul Stevenson (RTE),
Marie Toft (RTE) etc. on a range of music scores and sound design for film, television and new media.
After leaving University College Cork with a B.A. Degree, Tom went on to complete an M.A. Music
Performance with Barra Boydell at NUI, Maynooth. He studied Jazz guitar with Liam Foley and classical
guitar with both John Feeley (Dublin Conservatoire of Music) and Maria Levia San Marcus (Geneva
Conservatoire of Music). He also studied composition and orchestration with composer Stephen
Lawrence Parker.
Tom completed a Ph.D in Music with Harry White at University College Dublin in 1999. He has also
completed several film scoring and film sound programmes including Diploma Film Music Composition
(Film Institute, Los Angeles), Screen Training Ireland; Orchestration for Film & Television Composers
(with Conrad Pope), and sound recording with Chris Watson (www.chriswatson.net) Tom also holds an
L.T.C.L. (Music Performance, Trinity College, London).
Tom is on the staff at the School of Communications, Dublin City University where he is a lecturer in
film music, media production and sonic art. He has also worked as an external examiner for Dundalk
Institute of Technology (Creative Media), Dublin Institute of Technology (Music Performance), National
University of Ireland, Maynooth (Multimedia), and University College Cork (Law Dept.). He is a full
member of the Irish Film and Television Academy, Irish Music rights organisation/MCPS, The Society
for Musicology in Ireland (SMI), The Acoustic Ecology Institute and The Wildlife Sound Recording
Society.
He gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts Council of Ireland and Aer Lingus.
Tom records exclusively with guitars by Philip Woodfield
Contact:
tom.lawrence@dcu.ie
tomlawrence@perlico.net
UK Publisher: Touch Music