Vera
ITV
2011-present
The Tunnel
Sky Atlantic
2016-2018
The Tunnel
Sky Atlantic
2016-2018
Ben Bartlett is one of the UK's most in-demand composers. His music has spanned a huge range of TV and Film over the last 20 years.
Since winning a BAFTA for his score for the BBC blockbuster Walking With Dinosaurs, as well as receiving a a Primetime Emmy Nomination, Bartlett's work has been heard on innumerable award winning productions. Whilst building a truly vast body of experience in both TV and Film, Bartlett has received many other award recognitions including an Ivor Novello Nomination for his score for BBC Scotland's Fiona's Story, and several Royal Television Society nominations including the feature The Mark of Cain directed by Marc Munden. His score for the period drama Lucan inspired the Guardian to write "...Bartlett's music has been the crowning glory of this show…" and received a MASA nomination.
Ben's much loved music to the highly popular long running ITV series Vera, which stars Brenda Blethyn, has seen audiences reach in excess of 6 million and been recently released as a soundtrack album. His scores for the Sky One's Lucky Man, ITV's The Loch and Sky Atlantic's The Tunnel saw Bartlett explore a huge range of musical approaches from solo violin, chamber voice and live aleatoric string orchestra, through to unique synth programming and solo piano performed by the composer.
His collaborations with director Adrian Shergold led to his work with Ray Winstone on the ITV Drama The Trials Of Jimmy Rose, as well as the 3-part epic He Kills Coppers, based on the Jake Arnot novel.
Ben has also written extensively for concert hall and theatre, receiving critical acclaim for his mini-opera El Tigre, based on a poem of Pablo Neruda. He piano work Caprice was performed at The Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.
He lectures on composition and has judged on awards panels including BAFTA and Ivor Novello.
Ben works from his studio complex in West London.
2000 - BAFTA winner - Best Original Music
Walking with Dinosaurs
2000 - Primetime Emmy nominee
Walking with Dinosaurs
2005 - RTS nominee - Best Titles Music
The Ghost Squad
2007 - RTS nominee - Best Score
The Mark Of Cain feature
2009 - Ivor Novello Award nominee -
Best TV Score
Fiona's Story
2009 - RTS nominee - Best TV Score
Mutual Friends
2014 - MASA nominee - Best TV Score
Lucan