Oliver Davis
Composer Oliver Davis has parlayed a long record as a composer of film and television scores into a successful career as a composer of orchestral scores that, in performance, have attracted top-notch London orchestras and soloists. He has also been active as a composer of ballet and has released highly successful albums under his own name.
Davis was born in the U.K. in 1972. He attended the Royal Academy of Music, studying composition with Justin Connolly and graduating in 1994. Among Davis' extensive television credits is one for a sequence in the "Diggs" episode of season 25 of The Simpsons, a riff on the series' venerable couch gag that has been viewed on a streaming video service more than six million times. He has written 12 television series soundtracks and music for 15 short films, two major British films for television, and soundtracks for feature films in Britain (The Ringer) and the U.S. (An Unkindness of Ravens and Sleepwalk with Me). Davis has also written songs, including one called Song for Malala, both for and independently of dramatic productions. His ballet scores, executed as part of collaborations with choreographer Erico Montes, include the well-reviewed Within the Hours.
Davis began to gain widespread exposure in 2015 with the release of the album Flight, featuring his music as recorded by violinist Kerenza Peacock and the London Symphony Orchestra. The release was named Featured Album of the Week on Britain's popular Classic FM radio network, gained wide radio airplay in many countries, and cracked top levels on both British and U.S. classical sales charts. A selection of pieces from the album, which does not fit easily into the categories of crossover, minimalist, or neo-Romantic, was made into the ballet Flight of Fancy and performed in 2016 by the Tulsa Ballet in the state of Oklahoma. The album spawned the equally successful Seasons, which includes songs based on the sonnets depicted by Vivaldi's Four Seasons violin concertos. A third album in the series, Liberty, appeared in early 2018. Davis has continued to issue albums under his own name, mostly with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, on the Signum Classics label. These have included Arcadia (2019), Solace (2021, with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra), Air (2022), and Blue (2023).
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Discography
15 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Oliver Davis: Solace
Oliver Davis, Budapest Scoring Orchestra, Illényi Péter
Classical - Released by Signum Records on 5 Mar 2021
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Oliver Davis: Air
Oliver Davis, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Signum Records on 6 May 2022
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Oliver Davis: Liberty
Oliver Davis, Paul Bateman, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Signum Records on 2 Feb 2018
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Arboretum: II. Acai Palm
Paul Bateman, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Kerenza Peacock
Classical - Released by Signum Records on 7 Apr 2022
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Oliver Davis & Antonio Vivaldi: Seasons
Grace Davidson, Kerenza Peacock, Ivor Setterfield
Classical - Released by Signum Records on 9 Oct 2015
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Dream Songs: Lost
Davidson Joshua, Grace Davidson, Beth & Flo
Classical - Released by Signum Records on 8 Sep 2023
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Winds of Change
Oliver Davis, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released by Signum Records on 21 Apr 2022
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Sun Stands Still
Oliver Davis, Benedict Moriarty
Classical - Released by Signum Records on 20 Jan 2021
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The Elements: Water
Classical - Released by Signum Classics on 18 Sep 2019
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What Do I Say (feat. Ken Samson)
R&B - Released by Oliver Davis on 5 May 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo