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Michael Csányi-Wills

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Award-winning composer Michael Csányi-Wills has written works ranging from chamber music to choral and orchestral works to feature length film scores, and has been composer in residence with the Welsh Sinfonia since September 2013. Recent works have been widely performed throughout the UK and commissions have taken him around Europe, Australia and the USA. His previous collaboration with the Welsh Sinfonia was a setting of Lewis Carroll's "Phantasmagoria" for Narrator and orchestra, which received its premiere in January 2016. Michael's most recent commission though is a Violin concerto entitled "Revisions of the Earth" for violinist Tatiana Berman and was performed by her, with the Constella Arts Festival Orchestra in Cincinnati and conducted by Jose Luis Gomez in April 2016.

Michael's Orchestral Songs recorded for Toccata Classics and performed by Ilona Domnich, Nicky Spence, Jacques Imbrailo and The Londamis Ensemble conducted by Mark Eager were released in December 2015 to critical acclaim, and was Recording of the Month at Music Web International.

Michael has also written scores for a range of films including documentaries such as "The King of Nerac", "Maestro", a feature documentary feature about conductor Paavo Järvi, and feature dramas such "The Trouble with Dot and Harry", "Be My Baby" and documentary "Chasing Flavour" written and directed by Sundance Film Festival prize-winner Gary Walkow. Michael also won the Award for Best Score at the Movie Maverick Awards for his score to the short film "A Love story in Milk".

Michael was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in January 2012 and was appointed Head of Composition at the World Heart Beat Music Academy, London in January 2013.
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Rebecca Hall in The Awakening (2011)
The Awakening
6.4
  • Soundtrack("Finlandia Hymn - Be Still My Soul")
  • 2011
Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jasper Harris in The Thief Lord (2006)
The Thief Lord
5.9
  • Composer
  • 2006
Four Tails (2014)
Four Tails
Short
  • Composer
  • 2014
Lottery Winners
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  • Composer
  • 2012

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Composer

  • Sideshow (2020)
    Sideshow
  • Sabine Kviste in Boudica (2019)
    Boudica
  • Liz McMullen in Actress (2018)
    Actress
  • Forgotten Soldier (2018)
    Forgotten Soldier
  • Snijeg za Vodu: Snow for Water (2018)
    Snijeg za Vodu: Snow for Water
  • Fields of War (2017)
    Fields of War
  • Maestro (2015)
    Maestro
  • Tunnel
    Scarlet Says
  • Four Tails (2014)
    Four Tails
  • The King of Nerac
  • Lottery Winners
  • Will (2011)
    Will
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  • Baseline (2010)
    Baseline
  • The Condition
  • Damian O'Hare in Fractured (2007)
    Fractured
    • (original music by)

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  • Chasing Wonders (2020)
    Chasing Wonders
  • Habaneros (2017)
    Habaneros
  • Tunnel
    Scarlet Says

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