The Master and Margarita - 2015
Stephen Warbeck
Stephen Warbeck (°1953), born in Southampton, United Kingdom, is probably one of the best-known film composers in Britain. At the age of four already, he started to study piano and composition. Later he went to the University of Bristol, after which he started his career as an actor.
He got known as a composer of soundtracks by the music he wrote for the British TV series Prime Suspect, with Hellen Mirren in the main role. The series was broadcast by ITV from 1991 to 2006.
In 1998, Stephen Warbeck got an Academy Award for the soundtrack of the filmShakespeare in Love by director John Madden. Later, he would write the soundtracks for films like A Christmas Carol (1999) by David Jones, Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) by John Madden, for the Belgian film The Alzheimer Case (2003) by Erik Van Looy, and also for the TV series A Young Doctor's Notebook, inspired by the stories written by Bulgakov, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm, which was broadcast in 2012 and 2013 by the British channel Sky Arts.
At the end of 2010, he started working on the original soundtrack for the famous American fantasy series Game of Thrones, but after a few months, he left the project.
In 2015, Stephen Warbeck was asked to write the soundtrack for the radio play The Master and Margarita, an adaptation of the novel by Lucy Catherine, which was broadcast by BBC 3 on March 15, 2015.
Warbeck himself played the banjo for this broadcast, he was surrounded by the musicians Bogdan Vacarescu (violin), Eddie Hession (accordion), Oren Marshall (tuba), Rob Millet (percussion) and Sarah Homer (clarinet).
Stephen Warbeck
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The Master and Margarita - Lucy Catherine
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Stephen Warbeck - banjo
Bogdan Vacarescu - violin
Eddie Hession - accordion
Oren Marshall - tuba
Rob Millet - percussion
Sarah Homer - clarinet
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