Philip Sheppard is an acclaimed solo cellist, a Professor at the Royal Academy of Music, and an accomplished composer for film and television as well as for the theatre and live events.
Recent credits include In the Shadow of the Moon (which won numerous awards including the World Documentary Prize at Sundance), Henry Mind of a Tyrant (David Starkey’s landmark series for Channel 4), The Tillman Story and the documentary film Juliette Binoche – Sketches for a Portrait. In 2009 he composed for the feature-length documentary Sergio, which has won several awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination; and music by Philip was recently used by the acclaimed Korean director Kim Ki-Duk in his feature Dream. He is currently finishing major projects for PBS and National Geographic in the US.
Philip composed and produced the music for the London 2012 Handover sequence at the Beijing Olympics Closing Ceremony. For this event he conducted the London Symphony Orchestra playing his Olympic sequence (entitled This Is London), and together with Steve Robson produced a new version of Led Zeppelin’s Whole Lotta Love performed by Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis.
His stageworks include Sacred Monsters for Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan and In-I starring Khan and Juliette Binoche.
Philip Sheppard regularly writes and plays with UNKLE and has featured as a guest artist with numerous rock musicians including Scott Walker, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie and Jarvis Cocker.
He is also a successful recording artist in his own right whose albums have received rave reviews and are regularly broadcast.
