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May 2012 - started scoring;
    an epic 2hour feature length documentary for BBC,
    a Cutting Edge documentary for Channel 4
    an investigative documentary for ITV and
    another 1 hour documentary for Channel 4,
            which means I have again closed shop for the forseable future.



universal Some of my music from a couple of BBC series I have scored is now available on the Universal label

October - started scoring another 4 part series for BBC and have closed shop again, since I am now writing music for 3 BBC series.

September - How Much For My Brother? - a short film, directed by Joe Tucker, I wrote the music for has been selected by the London Film Festival



September - now scoring a 2 part about Shakespeare, presented by Simon Schama, for BBC 1 and 6 part for BBC 2 about Great Ormond Street Hospital

July - my music for The Battle of Britain won
a
Jerry Goldsmith award for Best Documentary Score

Jerry Goldsmith award

July - accepted one more and am now scoring a documentary about the Ground Zero mosque (Frontline / Channel 4), directed by Dan Reed.

May - I am now booked flat out until January 2012 and can't accept any new comissions. Sorry.
 
May - have been asked to score a 2 hour documentary for BBC 1 about the war in Afghanistan + another 2 hour for BBC 2 on Shakespeare presented by Simon Shama + a 6 part series for BBC 2

May - have been made a full voting member of BAFTA

April - scoring 2 documentaries for Ch4, writing the music for a TV commercial and some library tracks. Thank God for coffee!

March - my music for The Battle of Britain won Best feature documentary Soundtrack at Movie Music UK

    "Young Portuguese composer Miguel d’Oliveira impressed greatly in the documentary category with his score for BATTLE OF BRITAIN, a BBC documentary which looked at the famous World Ward II air conflict with new perspective; d’Oliveira’s music channelled the best of Ron Goodwin-style British heroism and pomp-and-circumstance, but distilled it through modern techniques to great effect"         Jon Broxton, Movie Music UK 2011



February - my music for The Battle of Britain got nominated for                  
                  Best feature documentary score by the IFMCA

February - interview on Soundtrack with John Mansell

February - started work on a Channel 4' Cutting Edge documentary for Blakeway Productions.

January 2011 - Music journalist Tim Burden, from Film Score Monthly, names The Battle of Britain score as one of the 10 Best Scores of 2010
 
January 2011 - Brandnew Films re-releases The Toybox soundtrack


December 20th - I have now closed shop for the year and I wish you all
                    a very Happy Christmas and a great 2011

November 2010 - accepted a new commission to score a 1 hour BBC programme about the King James Bible (BBC productions - Manchester), presented by Melvyn Bragg 

November 2010 - I have been asked to score another Cutting Edge documentary for channel 4, shooting early next year. 

I have been invited to conduct a series of workshops about music technology at the Horniman Museum in London, probably starting early January 2011.


September 2010 - I have accepted a new comission to score a BBC documentary about Icelandic sagas. Looking forward to this one.

September 2010 - some of my music is being used on a couple of videos (Two's a pair) that are being screened at the V&A this Friday the 23rd (part of the London Design Festival)

August 2010 - accepted a new comission - 2 episode documentary for BBC 2 about children in care (BBC productions - Scotland), with Neil Morrissey

August 2010 - Have started work on a Nom yogurt TV advert (Ogilvy) and 4 episodes of The Gates of Latin America (Wall to Wall)

August 2010 - Stopped this nonsense of writing in the third person

July 2010 - started scoring The Battle of Britain (Lion Television), with Ewan McGregor, for BBC 1

July 2010 - Miguel has been commissioned to write the score for a 4 part mini-series The Gates of Latin America for PBS.

July 2010 - scoring How Much For My Brother?, a dark comedy directed by Joe Tucker (JokeDisco Films / Film London)

June 2010 - started a new score for the Channel 4 documentary, Interview With an Incubator



April 2010 - still working on America: The Story of Us and starting a new score for a Channel 4 Cutting Edge doc about the elections

March 2010 - wrapping the Cutting Edge score and starting a 2 episode score for the series America The Story Of US (History Channel)

January 2010 - starting work on a 1 hour Cutting Edge documentary for Channel 4, The Air Hospital,  about the C-CAST Globemaster missions in Afghanistan

November 09 - scoring 7 part series The Bible: a history for Channel 4, writing additional music for the second BBC series of Merlin, scoring 3 part BBC documentary about the Great Ormond Street Hospital and also working on The Living Artist for ABC Australia
       

August 09 - As final proof that no one reads this website anyway, Miguel has just been asked to score a 7 part series for Channel 4 about the history of the Bible and a documentary for ABC network

June 09 - Miguel has been asked to score a 3 part documentary for BBC 2
                 and has now closed shop to new commissions until further notice


May 09  - Miguel started scoring a 1 hour documentary about the world oldest mums for Channel 4

April 09 - Miguel started scoring 5 part docu drama The Queen for Channel 4

March 09 - Victorian Sex Explorer wins Royal Television Society award for Best history documentary  


March 09 - Miguel started scoring a 2 hour documentary about
Byron for Channel 4


January 2009 - Miguel has also started work on a new 2 part documentary for PBS NOVA (US).
The Making Of a Doctor
, is an incredible 2 hour journey that follows the lives of 7 doctors, from the day
they got into Harvard Medical School in 1987 untill the present day.

October 08 - Miguel is scoring a couple of episodes of BBC one's new drama Merlin and has also been
commissioned to score a series of 4 documentaries for BBC two.

20th June - SOLSTICE art installation opens in London -  Classic FM interview

June 08 - Miguel is scoring a BBC documentary about the hair trade and has been commissioned to write the
score for another Ch4 doc (First Cut strand)

May 08 - Miguel has just scored The Victorian Sex Explorer, a documentary for Channel 4
presented by Rupert Everett, about British Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton

February 08 - Miguel is presently score producing and orchestrating the soundtrack for Michael Winterbottom's
latest feature film, Genova.

 

d o w n l o a d s

The Battle of Britain promo score

album cover    

Please find the link to the score by clicking on the text or album cover above

 
**NEW**
Merlin - series one - promo cues from episode 8 - limited time


The Air Hospital score

**NEW** 9 tracks plus album cover (2nd July 2010)

As promised, please find the page with the score for The Air Hospital on the link above


                                       

p r e s s


"one of the most inventive and creative horror scores I have heard in a long while"
"this is a real winner and
the boundless creativity exhibited by Miguel d’Oliveira never fails to impress me each time I listen"

Michael Beek in Music From The Movies

"It is the use of the human voice that, as well as the innovative and the interesting use of a plethora of instruments, that lingers in the memory once the album has ended"
"A horror score definitely worth hunting down down"

Alan Rogers in ReelMusic