Torchwood - The SciFi World: Interview with Ben Foster

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Ben Foster interview

Date of publishing: 6th June 2008

Ben is a graduate of the Guildhall School of Music & Drama where he studied Composition and Conducting. In 2001 Ben was awarded a BAFTA scholarship to study for his MA in Film Composition at the National Film & Television School under Professor Francis Shaw and Peter Howell. Work as a composer includes over 30 scores for shorts for various European Film makers. Recent highlights include Can’t Stop Breathing (Best Short nomination 2005 BAFTAawards) and Gareth Lewis’s Normal For Norfolk. For Mcasso Music agency, Ben's TV credits include main titles for LWT’s Love on a Saturday Night, The Great British Test series for Granada, and the current arrangement of BBC’s Question Time. He has also written music for a variety of advertising campaigns including The Times, Ford SreetKa, Sprite and Burger King. Credits as a Pop arranger include five Top Ten hits as well as album tracks for a wide variety of artists including S Club, Toploader, Boyzone and others. Ben also works in the classical crossover field both as an arranger and conductor having recently worked with Aled Jones (Universal Classics), Keedie and the RPO (EMIClassics) and Hayley Westenra (Decca). His CV as a film orchestrator includes work on The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The League of Gentlemen, Apocalypse Alien Autopsy and Death at a Funeral. For the past two years Ben has worked with Murray Gold, orchestrating series 2, 3 and 4 of Doctor Who. Most recently, Ben has scored the second series of the BBC drama Torchwood (which he co-writes with Murray Gold), and was a judge on the 2008 BBC Young Musician of the Year.

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This interview has been done in collaboration with the French website Beans On Toast A French translation will be available there soon!