October 06, 2013: Patrick
Doyle on his commission from Syracuse International Film Festival Earlier this week Patrick Doyle
attended Syracuse Film University and premiered his latest score there.
Doyle was comissioned to compose 77-minute score for silent movie IT
(1927) earlier this year and the movie premiered on October 3rd
when it was screened at the festival with Patrick Doyle's score
performed live by 17-piece orchestra made up of musicians from Symphoria
and the Society for New Music, and conducted by Travis Newton, Director of
Music at Le Moyne College. Here is a little article about it, hopefully more
will follow soon. If you haven't heard the interview, in which Patrick
Doyle was talking about his new score with Tim Burden, check it out
below:
October 06, 2013:
PUPETTEER soundtrack released Patrick Doyle's first score for a videogame was recently released as
part of special "theatrical edition" edition of the game (see June 6th
post below for details), which includes the soundtrack as 256 kbps MP3. So
far the score is exclusive to the game and isn't available for purchase
anywhere else. Tracklist follows.
1 Kutaro (1:10) 2 Moon Bear King (1:08) 3 The Moon Witch (1:16) 4 Pikarina (1:08) 5 Land, Already! (1:08) 6 Open The Gate (2:41) 7 It's A Traaaaap! (1:31) 8 Onward And Upward (1:33) 9 Woe Is Me (0:56) 10 Tea Party (1:32) 11 This Saturday Morning Cartoon Is
Over! (1:36) 12 Monkey See, Monkey
Do (1:24) 13 Fire The Long
Toms! (2:53)
14 Ahoy, Moby! (1:31) 15 Danger (1:12) 16 Slitering Scourges (1:36) 17 Across The Plains (3:34) 18 Horse And Bull (1:34) 19 Bullfight (1:46) 20 Hallowee Ville (3:14) 21 City In The Fog (1:36) 22 The Gateway To Earth (1:11) 23 I'm Not Done With You Yet (1:43) 24 Stop That Monster! (1:35) 25 The Hero Of The Moon (1:18)
June 27, 2013: Patrick
Doyle's ASCAP acceptance speech Finally at
least part of Patrick Doyle's ASCAP award acceptance speech is now
available on Youtube.
June 24, 2013: ASCAP:
Patrick Doyle's Life in Music Interview Patrick Doyle was awarded with Henry
Mancini Lifetime Achievement Award by ASCAP, which also published lengthy
interview with the composer discussing in detail first 25 years of his
music. You can check this great interview also including number of
photos from various sessions and with some of the directors Patrick Doyle
has worked with.
June 06, 2013: ASCAP to
honor Patrick Doyle with Henry Mancini Lifetime Award The American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) will host its 28th annual Film &
Television Music Awards on Thursday, June 20th, 2013 at the Beverly Hilton
Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. The invitation-only dinner and awards ceremony
will pay special tribute to Patrick Doyle, and honor composers of the top
box office film music, the most performed television music and the top
video game music of 2012. Patrick Doyle
commented: “I’m incredibly passionate about the
music I create, so it’s with great pride that I receive this award from a
society made up of such a talented and diverse group of my peers. As a
recipient of the ASCAP Henry Mancini Award, I’m in terrific company.”
ASCAP President and Chairman Paul
Williams commented: “Patrick Doyle’s extensive
body of work is some of the most compelling and affective in the industry.
His ability to flawlessly cross genres in film, TV and beyond is why he
can successfully score everything from Carlito’s Way to Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire. We’re all very excited to honor him at this year’s
Film & Television Music Awards.” Full press release available here.
June 06, 2013: Patrick
Doyle's first videogame and silent movie scores 2013 is turning out to be another very
busy year for Patrick Doyle, who has recently completed his score upcoming
JACK RYAN for Kenneth Branagh as well as working on his new score for 1927
silent movie IT starring Clara Bow, which was comissioned by The Syracuse
Film Festival and will premiere on October 5th 2013, he has been also
working on his first videogame score for Playstation's PUPPETEER. Here is
the game trailer and more details as well as pre-order are available here. PUPPETEER will be released in
mid September and the special "theatrical edition" will also include
soundtrack album.
May 07, 2013: New interview
New issue of Tim Burden's Movie Magic
features new interview with Patrick Doyle discussing his latest album,
IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA. You can listen to the whole show (also featuring
interviews with Christopher Gunning, Bruce Broughton and Michael
Giacchino) here.
April 06, 2013: Happy birthday to Patrick
Doyle!
60 years old
today!
March 06, 2013:
Patrick Doyle's IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA album coming soon... Patrick
Doyle's solo album Impressions of America will be released on CD by Varese
Sarabande on April 16th. Here is the basic info from Varese's
website about this upcoming album:
"2013 certainly seems set to be a year of exciting
celebrations! We are so excited to announce our latest release by
one of film music’s greatest and most successful composers ... the great
Patrick Doyle! Doyle’s film
scores include such blockbusters as Brave, Harry Potter and The Goblet Of
Fire, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Thor, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Henry V
and so many others! Doyle is a Scotsman who has been coming to
America for many years now to bring his incredible music to
Hollywood. These many trips have now inspired their own musical work
and Doyle has composed a symphonic piece consisting of fifteen
impressions. Patrick Doyle’s IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA is a nostalgic
look at America ... its landscapes, its traditions, and its people. Scored for
full symphony orchestra, we release Patrick Doyle’s IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA
to celebrate the composer’s 60th birthday in April of 2013."
1. Washington DC 2. Pumpkin Pie 3.
Christmas In New York 4. Transcontinental
Railroad 5. The Great Depression 6. Mount Rushmore 7.
Prairie Sunrise 8. Winter In
Alaska
09. Decaying City 10.
Yosemite 11. Death Valley 12. Rushing Rapids 13.
The Great Plains 14. Old Glory 15. Thanksgiving
February 04, 2013:
Patrick Doyle's 60th Birthday Concert 2013 will bring several concerts
featuring music by Patrick Doyle. One of the most interesting and recently
announced is Patrick Doyle's 60th Birthday Concert featuring The London
Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frank Strobel. The concert will take place
on December 1st, 2013 in London's Barbican Hall and will feature Patrick
Doyle's scores such as Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, As You
Like It or Henry V. Pre-concert talk with Patrick Doyle is also
planned. For more information visit LSO's website.
January 04, 2013: The
Music of Patrick Doyle concert in Switzerland The 21st Century Orchestra has annouced several film music concerts
for their upcoming season featuring "The Music of Patrick Doyle" on March 9, 2013 featuring music from from
such films as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Henry V and Harry Potter and
the Goblet of Fire. Doyle will attend the event in person and participate
in a pre-concert talk before the concert. For tickets, visit KKL’s website. For more information about the 21st Century Symphony
Orchestra, visit the orchestra’s
official website and
Art
Productions (both sites
in German).
December 20,
2012: THR's Composer Rountable Patrick was
one of the six composers participating in recent The Hollywood Reporter's
Composer Rountables (the others being Marco Beltrami, Mychael Danna,
Alexandre Desplat, Danny Elfman and Fernando Velazquez). You can read the
article and also watch LENGTHY interview with the composers discussing
various aspects of their craft here
.
December 06, 2012: BRAVE
nomination and interview Patrick Doyle
was recently nominated for ANNIE award (together with Mark Andrews and
Alex Mandel) for his score for BRAVE. He has also been recently
inteviewed by Los Angeles Times and you can read the article online (and
also see a rare picture of Patrick Doyle in a kilt) here. The other ANNIE nominees in
Music in a Feature Production category
are:
Alexandre Desplat – Rise of the
Guardians – DreamWorks Animation Bruce Retief –
Adventures in Zambezia – Saltzman Communications Henry Jackman – Wreck-It-Ralph - Walt Disney Animation
Studios Joel McNeely, Brendan Milburn, Valerie
Vigoda - Secret of the Wings – DisneyToon Studios John Powell, Adam Schlesinger, Ester Dean - Ice Age:
Continental Drift – Blue Sky Studios John Powell,
Cinco Paul – Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax – Illumination Entertainment Mark Mothersbaugh – Hotel Transylvania – Sony Pictures
Animation
June 24, 2012: Three new interviews Patrick Doyle has been doing a lot of
publicity recently for his score for Pixar's BRAVE. Here are three of
the most recent interviews featuring brief interview from BRAVE
premiere in Los Angeles earlier this week as well as two more shot
during his stay in Los Angeles during which he also participate in Q+A at
the SCL screening of the movie on June 20.
June 13, 2012: New interview from Film Music
Magazine New Interview
with Patrick Doyle was released yesterday in Film Music Magazine. Patrick
Doyle is not only discussing his work on BRAVE score in general but also
working with his son on one of the original songs and hinting his future
plans including sequel of RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. You can read
Daniel Schweiger's interview here .
June 04, 2012: first
BRAVE samples Newly released BRAVE feature offers brief excerpt from
the recording sessions with The London Symphony Orchestra as
well short mini-interview with Patrick Doyle. You can watch it here. Full interview will be
released as part of June issue of Film Score Monthly Online and
today, FSMO subscribers can actually listen to special 7-minute suite from
the score. For more information, click here .
May 01, 2012:
BRAVE OST announced, new concert piece to premiere in July BRAVE: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be
released by Disney Records on June 19. You can already pre-order the album
at Amazon. For tracklist and other details, click on the cover
image on the right. Patrick Doyle has also recently completed his new
concert work, entitled Impressions for America: A Suite for Orchestra,
which will premiere in July
during the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford. The piece was composed
especially for the members of National School Symphony Orchestra. You can
watch video from the rehearsal, including interview with Patrick Doyle at
BBC's website.
March 06, 2012: BRAVE
trailer New trailer of upcoming Pixar movie BRAVE
(featuring music by Patrick Doyle recorded in early 2012) was recently
released and is currently available in Japanese with english subtitles
only. International version in original english language is most likely
coming very soon. In the meantime you can watch the trailer
below:
December 13, 2011:
MAN TO MAN MovieScore Media announced release date of
long-planned release of Patrick Doyle´s score for MAN TO MAN. The album
will be finally released on December 27th as digital download and on CD.
The first CD edition is limited to 1000 copies. The score should be
available through most specialised retailers during next few weeks.
Tracklist coming soon.
November 12, 2011: THOR
recording sessions Watch Patrick Doyle working with conductor
James Shearman on THOR score with The London Symphony Orchestra. This
short extra is included on recent Blu-Ray release of the
movie.
November 12, 2011: Website
launched First trial version of this website has been
launched. More content and updates coming soon. So far all pages are
accessible at least in their temp versions including more-less finalised
biography, filmography, multimedia, discography and contact
pages.
(c) 2011 Petr Kocanda. All content is presented for
promotional purposes of the composer only and shouldn't be copied without
proper licence from rights owners.