Paul Saunderson is a British film composer with with over 80 credits in Film & TV to his name. His work includes the landmark BBC STUDIOS documentary series EARTH that tells the 4.5 billion year story of our Earth, Apple TV’s comedy drama TRYING starring Rafe Spall + Esther Smith, RAW'S award winning documentary THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS (Tim Wardle dir.)  and hit SKY One action series STRIKE BACK.

 

Other works include the NETFLIX Original film LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT starring Ben Hardy and Haley Lu Richardson, Camelot Films PRIZEFIGHTER starring Russell Crowe and Ray Winston and collaborating on Sister Pictures CLEANING UP starring Sheridan Smith, SKY Atlantic’s mystery thriller RIVIERA (Julia Styles) and MTV's action adventure series THE SHANNARA CHRONICLES. Saunderson also wrote the music for Keith English’s adaptation of the Jo Brand Novel THE MORE YOU IGNORE ME (Sheridan Smith and Mark Addy) and Tom Edmunds DEAD IN A WEEK or your money back (Tom Wilkinson and Aneurin Barnard), collaborating with ELBOW'S front man Guy Garvey and I AM KLOOT'S bass player Peter Jobson. 

 

Coming from a both a classical and band background, Paul has demonstrated the ability to score Films and TV shows covering a diverse range of genres.  His unique tone to Paul’s scores is underpinned by his innovative approach to musical sound design, complementing his skills as a multi-instrumentalist, performing and recording on the majority of his scores from his South London studio. This was highlighted in 2019 with Paul releasing his debut album “Passage” on Decca imprint 1631 Recordings. 

 

Saunderson learnt his craft working as arranger/programmer and additional composer on over 35 feature films including KICK-ASS (Matthew Vaughn), CORIOLANUS (Ralph Fiennes), BLACK SEA (Kevin Mcdonald), JOHNNY ENGLISH: REBORN (Rowan Atkinson), 47 RONIN (Keanu Reeves), and Aardman’s latest feature animation SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE MOVIE.

 

After receiving his Music degree from The University of Leeds in composition and electro acoustic music he immersed himself into the world of film music working as assistant to the award winning composer llan Eshkeri (Still Alice, The Young Victoria, Stardust, Layer Cake) and production assistant to Grammy award winning fil music producer Steve McLaughlin (About A Boy, Heat, Batman, Die Hard, Lethal Weapon).

 

Saunderson has worked with many recording artists; writing arrangements and collaborating with Elbow, Badly Drawn Boy, Coldplay, Kasabian, KT Tunstall, Tom Odell, The Cinematic Orchestra, Ash, and Andy Burrows, Guy Garvey, SWINDLE and most recently SIPHO.  

 

Paul has recently completed FIGHT OR FLIGHT an action comedy for renowned American production company Thunder Road Pictures and new Amazon romantic comedy PICTURE THIS for 42 starring Simone Ashley and Hero Fiennes Tiffin.