BIOGRAPHY
Michael Omer graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, where he was awarded the Alexander Grosz Memorial Prize for composition. He also won the Llangollen International Composers’ Competition, a silver award at the New York Film & Television Festival, and has contributed scores to many award-winning television and film productions. He now enjoys a wide-ranging career writing a variety of music, for television, film, theatre and concert hall.
Michael wrote the music for the Oscar Nominated It’s Good to Talk, produced by Barney Reisz, and directed by Roger Goldby (The Durrells). This Academy Award Nominated Movie was on UK general release with the Bond movie. He collaborated with writer/producer Julian Fellowes (Oscar: Best Screenplay, Gosford Park & writer/producer Downton Abbey) scoring the BBCTV BAFTA nominated drama The Prince and the Pauper, along with the Mark Twain classic Little Lord Fautleroy which gained an International EMMY.
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Legacy television credits include Everyman; the teen-soap The BiZ! created by Chronicles of Narnia director Marilyn Fox (three series); E. Nesbit classics Five Children & It; Return of the Psammead; the All Creatures Great & Small zoo-vet spin-off One by One; (all BBC), Equinox (C4); Henry’s Leg (Meridien/TVS), together with an all-singing all-dancing christmas special for BBCTV, which featured, amongst others, UK stars David Jason and Lenny Henry, which won him the Silver Award at the New York Film and Television Festival in the category “Best Music & Lyrics”.
Other work includes a major drama-documentary series Royal Deaths & Diseases, produced by Lion Television for C4, a film for the long running series Secret History, and commercials produced by Mosaic Films for M & C Saatchi.
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Many of his concert works have had performances in London venues: To the Stars - in memory of the Space Shuttle Challenger (Barbican Hall), Ombra della Sera (Purcell Room), Little Star Began to Sing, (St John's Smith Square - also performed in Riga by the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra).
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Always open to ideas from a wide range of sources, artist David Hockney is the inspiration for another concert hall work, commissioned with funds from the National Lottery’s ‘Awards for All’ scheme: Mulholland Drive - David Hockney’s Road to the Studio, for concert band, draws it’s colour and energy from the epic 1980 canvas of a similar name. Michael was also commissioned to write The Rages of the Ages for the London Mozart Players, and this also received a premiere broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
