Leigh Phillips


Leigh Phillips is an award-winning composer, orchestrator, and conductor of music for film, media, and theatre. In addition to this, he is responsible for developing unique orchestrations, and arrangements, of film-music for live concert performance and recording.
Previous collaborations have included the, BAFTA Award-winning, composer John Ottman, Grammy Award-winning television composer Joe Harnell, The Halle Orchestra, The Golden State Pops Orchestra, The London Philharmonic Orchestra, soundtrack producers Silva Screen Records and Tadlow Music; his orchestrations and arrangements featuring in productions by companies such as Decca Records, SKY, IMAX, ITV, Channel 4, Prometheus Records, Classic FM and the BBC.
One particularly prominent feature of Phillips' career has been his involvement in the reconstruction of classic film scores. Some notable examples of reconstruction projects that have utilised his orchestrations, include:
Other orchestration & composition projects have included:
In 2014, Leigh was presented with the IFMCA Special Award for his work on the reconstruction of Jerry Goldsmith's score, 'The Salamander'; previous recipients of this award included Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Haiti - The Symphony of Hope project, and James Horner.
With a long-standing interest in music-education, he was head of film-music composition at The London College of Music, where he was responsible for developing the UK's first, film-music specific, Bachelor of Music Degree.
*Denotes 2006 Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Achievement in Audio Visual Music