Harry Escott


Harry Escott is a British composer living in London. He has composed the scores to several films, including Shame, Hard Candy and A Mighty Heart. He scored Eran Creevy's second feature film, the action thriller Welcome to the Punch which was executive produced by Ridley Scott and had its cinematic release in 2013. This was the second time he had worked with Creevy, having scored the director's debut feature, Shifty, for which he received a BIFA nomination in 2008.
Escott's recent television credits include BBC One dramas series What Remains and River, and upcoming thriller series for Fox Networks, Deep State. He has scored films for Michael Winterbottom, Paddy Considine and Clio Barnard. His most recent score for Clio Barnard, Dark River, included a song co-written with PJ Harvey, "An Acre of Land", released on Cognitive Shift Recordings. Regularly Escott works with the psybient group Shpongle.
He studied music at the Royal College of Music and Somerville College, Oxford.
His choral work, "O Viridissima Virga", was written for the choir of St Bride's Church, London.

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