I’m a multi-instrumentalist musician, film & tv composer and songwriter from coastal, rural East Lothian in Scotland. I make emotive music, which often combines finger-picked and bowed folk instruments with minimal electronica and melodic orchestration… real instruments, played from the heart.

My recent film and tv scores include the Ewan McGregor & Charley Boorman adventure series ‘Long Way Home’ (Apple TV), Oscars 2024 short film contender 'Holy Cowboys' & RTS winning ‘The Kingdom: The World's Most Powerful Prince' (BBC).

My score for feature doc 'Scheme Birds' - described by filmmaker/producer Lena Dunham as “one of the most profoundly skilful, empathetic and moving films of the year” - helped to earn the film two wins at the Tribeca Film Festival. (Best Feature Doc and Best New Director)

Other composer credits include the BAFTA Scotland winning feature Killing Escobar and my solo music has been placed in many worldwide productions such as hit UK show Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing, Yellowstone, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Leonardo DiCaprio produced docudrama Theodore Roosevelt and HBO comedy Miracle Workers (Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe.)

After a period as a touring musician in bands and electronic collectives, I began my soundtrack career composing for media with early work for the BBC’s natural history unit. Some early highlights include working with legendary journalist Jon Snow on special reports for Dispatches covering the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and scoring the RTS winning seriesThe Future of Food, presented by the late, great George Alagaih.

Alongside my media career, I’ve worked extensively in community music and arts projects funded by Creative Scotland whilst exploring and developing my own music.

Solo releases include Memories of America - described by journalist and author Chitra Ramaswamy as “beautiful music…sparse, wide-screen Americana evoking the shimmer and heat of flat lands bisected by long straight roads vibe…” and in 2023, I released a folktronica and spiritual jazz influenced EP Jumping Off Point (Faber/ Manners McDade) - it felt like rediscovering my music after a long period hustling in the film and tv worlds. I love collaborating with film-makers - there’s something so magical about the combination of music and visuals that seems to elevate and transform both mediums - but I also needed some time to remember why I fell in love with writing music in the first place, finding my own voice again, reconnecting with nature and expressing myself after so many years of collaborative work. It was a Jumping Off Point…

It wasn’t long before media work resumed with scores for The Kingdom (Rogan Productions/ BBC) & Long Way Home (Apple TV). The soundtrack album for this latter project Long Way Home - Original Apple TV+ Series Soundtrack (released July 2025 by Platoon) - was the result of initial improvised studio recordings to picture - on fretted instruments, piano/ rhodes piano & drums - followed by additional recording sessions with some of Scotland’s most talented folk artists and session players including Jenna Reid , Rachel Newton & Iain Sandilands. More details here

I’m currently working on my solo work again - this time rediscovering my singer-songwriter self. The album is in development but I think it’s destined to be a collection of new songs and instrumental works, some first composed for a short film ‘Unexpected Guests’ by Dr Robyn Thomas.

The new album will feature collaborations with Rachel Newton (Spell Songs) & Barney Morse Brown (Cellist for Robert Plant, Saving Grace & Duotone) Currently no label is involved. I hope to release ‘Unexpected Guests’ in 2026/7…more soon!