Sheridan Tongue

Sheridan Tongue is a BAFTA-nominated television and film music composer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has written and produced soundtracks for many television series including the BBC's Wonders of the Universe and Wonders of the Solar System, Silent Witness (Series 9 - 20), Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking],[1] DCI Banks (Series 1 - 5)[2] and Spooks (Series 3), the score for which achieved a BAFTA Television Craft nomination for Best Original Television Music;[3] he has also engineered and mixed records for artists such as Blur, Beverley Knight[4] and The Verve.

Sheridan Tongue
Born
Sheridan Tongue
OccupationTelevision and film music composer
Years active1995 - present
Spouse(s)Pamela Tongue
Websitewww.sheridantongue.com

Early career

As a schoolboy he went to the Royal Belfast Academical Institution (RBAI) and the City of Belfast School of Music (CBSM) and enjoyed musical studies before going on to university at Surrey University. He graduated in 1989 with a BMus in Music and Sound Recording from the Tonmeister course at the University of Surrey,[5] Tongue spent several years working in many commercial studios around London as a programmer, engineer, session musician and songwriter for recording artists including Blur, Beverly Knight, The Verve and Jocelyn Brown[6] before setting up as a freelance film and television composer.

Film and television credits

Film
  • Shadow Observers
  • A to Z (Director - Michael Geoghegan)
  • The Kitchen Child (Director - Angela Carter)

Television drama

Television documentaries

Awards

References
  1. Tongue, Sheridan. "Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking". SheridanTongue.com.
  2. Tongue, Sheridan. "DCI Banks Seasons 1-5". SheridanTongue.com.
  3. Official BAFTA Craft Awards Database nominations for 2004 (accessed November 1, 2008)
  4. "Made It Back" - a pop record by Beverly Knight (accessed November 3, 2008)
  5. Notable alumni of Surrey University's Tonmeister course (accessed November 2, 2008)
  6. Credits Archived 2009-07-06 at the Wayback Machine from Sheridan's official website (accessed November 2, 2008)
  7. Sheridan Tongue at IMDb
  8. "Russian Revolution in Color". Smithsonian Channel.
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