n e w s

June 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 (Wall to Wall) 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 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

    o n   T V

Cameron's Black Tory - Documentary on Channel 4, Sunday 6th june at 7pm

America: The Story of Us - the final episode (and the only one w/ my music) is on the History Channel May 28th, 9pm Pacific time

Pushing The Boundaries - the first episode of a 3 part documentary starts on BBC 2 Tuesday 6th April, at 9pm

The Bible: a history starts on the Discovery Channel in early April

The Air Hospital  will air on Channel 4 on the 25th of March at 9 pm

The Queen will start on ABC (US) in the fall of 2010

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

f e s t i v a l s

For The Love OF God wins best student animated short at  Palm Springs International ShortFest

For The Love Of God wins BEST ANIMATION at Santa Barbara Film Festival

For The Love Of God wins the SILVER HUGO at Chicago International Film Festival

For The Love Of God wins the GRAND PRIZE at Rhode Island International Film Festival

For The Love Of God selected for Sundance 2008 , AFI Fest 2007 , Brief Encounters 2007,
Austin Film Festival 2007 and Cinanima 2007

The Toybox selected for Full Moon Horror Film Festival, USA 2007

For The Love Of God selected for Telluride Film Festival 2007

Immeasurable selected for Edinburgh International Film Festival

For The Love Of God nominated for the Cinefondation award at Cannes Film Festival 2007