Patrick Doyle was born on 6 April 1954 in Addingston, near Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in 1974. After graduating from the Academy, he worked as a piano teacher for some time, later as an actor and composer took part in a variety of theater, television and cinematic projects. His first major composition was the music for the play "Glaswegas", first shown to the audience in 1978 at the Edinburgh Festival. He collaborated with Scottish
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Patrick Doyle was born on 6 April 1954 in Addingston, near Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in 1974. After graduating from the Academy, he worked as a piano teacher for some time, later as an actor and composer took part in a variety of theater, television and cinematic projects. His first major composition was the music for the play "Glaswegas", first shown to the audience in 1978 at the Edinburgh Festival. He collaborated with Scottish television and the BBC, and in 1981 he starred in a small role in Hugh Hudson's famous film Chariots of Fire.
In 1987, Doyle met actor and director Kenneth Branagh and soon joined his Renaissance theater company, at first as an actor, and later as a composer and music director. He was also the author of the music for the first film directed by Brana - the film adaptation of Shakespeare's play Henry V (1989). This was Doyle's first major success - the music for Henry V was highly praised by critics, and the final song "Non Nobis Domine" (a reworking of an old psalm) was recognized as the best main musical theme of the year and received the Ivor Novello Award. Doyle’s work impressed the Prince of Wales Charles, and at his request, the composer wrote a series of songs for the ninetieth anniversary of the Queen Mother, called “The Tortoise and the Rose.”
In the future, Doyle wrote music for almost all of Kenneth Branagh’s films: “Die Again” (1991), “Much Ado About Nothing” (1993), “Frankenstein Mary Shelley” (1994), “Winter Fairy Tale” (1995), “Hamlet” (1996), “Future Efforts of Love” (2000), “As You Like It” (2006). In some of them he played small roles, including Soldier Court in Henry V and Balthazar in Much Ado About Nothing. In 1996, for the music for the film Ang Lee “Sense and Sensibility” (1995), Doyle was nominated for Oscars, the British Academy of Film and Television and the Golden Globe, and the following year he was waiting for another Oscar nomination for Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet. Since the early nineties, he periodically collaborated with the famous French director Régis Varnier in his films Indochina (1992), French Woman (1995), East-West (1999) and Man-to-Man (2004).
Among other most famous works of Patrick Doyle in cinema - music for the films "The Way of Carlito" (1993, directed by Brian De Palma), "Donnie Brasco" (1997, directed by Michael Newell), "Great Expectations" (1998, dir. Alphonnegore, Robert McCord, 2001), "Briage" (Alphonnege Park, "Alphon), "Alphonnege Rege" (Greston, Michael Regeston, 2001). He also owns the musical tale "Face in the Lake", which premiered at New York's Carnegie Hall in February 1998. Sony later released "Face in the Lake" along with two other authors' musical tales on CD. The text of the tale was read by the famous actress Kate Winslet. Among the musicians who at various times took part in the recording of Doyle’s works are such celebrities as tenor Placido Domingo and conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Not so long ago, Doyle again worked with the director of the film “Donnie Brasco” Michael Newell on the film “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” (2005), replacing the composer John Williams, the author of music for the three previous films about the adventures of the young wizard.
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