Howard Davidson is a composer of music for film, television, radio and the theatre. Davidson has over 300 scores to his credit, many in collaboration with noted documentary maker Michael Wood and made for the

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and

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. His orchestral scores have been performed by the

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, and both the

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and

Philharmonia The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London. It was founded in 1945 by Walter Legge, a classical music record producer for EMI. Among the conductors who worked with the orchestra in its early years were Richard Strauss, ...

Orchestras. Radio credits include Iris Murdoch's '' Under the Net'', Nabokov's '' Laughter in the Dark'' and Terre Haute by

Edmund White Edmund Valentine White III (January 13, 1940 – June 3, 2025) was an American novelist, memoirist, playwright, biographer, and essayist. A pioneering figure in LGBTQ and especially gay literature after the Stonewall riots, he wrote with ra ...

. For television, recent productions include Titanic-Birth of a Legend and Michael Wood's In Search of Shakespeare, In Search of Myths & Heroes and more recently The Story of India. He is a Professor of Composition for Screen at the

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Howard Davidson on Blaze Music
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