Laurence Chapman

Laurence Chapman is a composer & orchestrator specializing in TV, Film and Game Music . Laurence was born in Cambridge in 1985; growing up in a music-filled household he began composing after hearing the film scores of Jerry Goldsmith. His early music consisted of compositions for his school orchestra and various jazz trios and quartets of which he was a member before writing for local youth orchestras. Whilst living in London in the late 2000s, Laurence arranged and performed piano parts on two EPs with Ed Sheeran. He lists his main musical influences as, Bach, Beethoven, Shostakovich, Brahms, Mahler, Elgar, Stravinsky, Walton, Jerry Goldsmith, Harry Gregson-Williams, Alexandre Desplat, and more recently, James Macmillan, Peter Maxwell-Davies, Thomas Adès and Oliver Knussen.