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Dan Jones read music at Oxford University where he graduated with first class honours. He received the Ralph Vaughan Williams Electro-Acoustic Scholarship 1995 which he spent at the Centro Richerche Musicali in Rome.

Having accumulated an extensive list of television and theatre credits since the mid-1990s, Dan has more recently emerged as one of Britain’s most admired and sought-after film composers. His score for Max, Menno Meyjes’ controversial first feature about the early years of Hitler, starring John Cusack and Noah Taylor, received the 2004 Ivor Novello Award for ‘Best Score for a Feature Film’. Other film credits include Shadow of the Vampire, the inaugural feature from Nicolas Cage’s Saturn Films, starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe, and Francesca Joseph’s Tomorrow La Scala! (BBC Films), which was selected for the Un-Certain Regard slot at Cannes 2002. His most recent film credit is the Anglo-Spanish co-production Manolete, starring Penelope Cruz and Adrien Brody.

Dan’s television drama credits include Dead Set, E4’s high-profile horror drama based on Big Brother; the 6-part BBC series Strange and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Twockers. He has worked on many distinguished documentary films, including two recent and much talked-about contributions by filmmaker Tom Roberts to WGBH Boston’s Frontline series: In the Company of Soldiers and The Insurgency. In 2002 Dan was chosen with fellow composer Ben Salisbury to write the music for Sir David Attenborough’s 10 × 1-hour BBC series The Life of Mammals – the score being recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Dan works extensively in theatre, as composer, sound designer, and most recently as a director. He is co-director of The Sound and Fury Theatre Company, and in the summer of 2009 co-directed (and provided the sound design for) their acclaimed production of Kursk at the Young Vic in London – which subsequently transferred to the Edinburgh Festival. Credits in the rock music world include the string arrangements for Alpha’s second album, The Impossible Thrill, on the Virgin label, and a collaboration with Jarvis Cocker.