Jeremy Holland-Smith
Composer
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Jeremy is a composer, arranger, orchestrator and conductor across film and TV, concert hall and ballet.
Continuing his long running collaboration with composer Joby Talbot, his recent work includes song orchestrations and co-arrangements for Warner Bros’ Wonka. The film stars Timothée Chalamet as a young Willy Wonka.
Jeremy also wrote the original score for Netflix’s Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, an animated musical adaptation of the Leslie Bricusse musical Scrooge, starring Jessie Buckley, Luke Evans, Olivia Colman and Jonathan Pryce. Jeremy arranged and produced the original Bricusse songs, as well as writing two new songs, including the featured duet Later Never Comes.
Other recent work includes orchestrations and arrangements for the hit animated films Sing and Sing 2 for Universal Pictures, the BBC adaptation of Les Misérables, additional music and arrangements for Steven Knight’s upcoming Disney+ drama A Thousand Blows starring Stephen Graham, and the original score for feature The Passing, which won three BAFTA Cymru awards and for which Jeremy won the Music+Sound Award for Original Feature Film score.
More TV and film score credits include the highly acclaimed BBC documentaries I Shot my Parents and North Korea: Murder in the Family and the score for the return of the BBC series The League of Gentlemen. Jeremy has won awards for his advertising campaigns including Phones 4u (winner of the 2012 Music+Sound award for Sound Design in Cinema Advertising) and scored the US campaign for Hertz.
As an orchestrator and conductor, Jeremy regularly collaborates with composer Paul Englishby with credits including Queens of Mystery (Acorn), The Musketeers (BBC), Witness for the Prosecution (BBC), Decline and Fall (BBC) and A Royal Night Out (Ecosse Films). He also works with composer Murray Gold, with credits including Doctor Who (BBC), and Life Story (BBC). He has conducted orchestras in Prague, Vienna, LA, Brussels, Australia and London and made his debut at the BBC Proms in 2015.
Jeremy regularly collaborates with choreographer Will Tuckett, scoring ballets The Secret Garden and Changing Light for the Sarasota Ballet. Other concert work includes The Caretaker’s Guide To The Orchestra with the Dockland’s Sinfonia, for which Jeremy was nominated for a British Composer Award in 2018.