Barrington Pheloung

Barrington John Adam Lewis Pheloung (born 14 December 1954) is an Australian composer, now living in England. Best known for the theme and incidental music to the Inspector Morse television series, he has also composed for dance companies, such as the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and for events, including the opening night of the Millennium Dome. His film work includes Hillary and Jackie for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, "Touching Wild Horses" and Shopping. He also made the music to Revolution Software's adventure games In Cold Blood and the first two Broken Swords. His music has also been covered by rock band Boston on their tribute album "More Than A Pheloung". Pheloung's other work includes music for the Sydney Opera House's Twentieth Birthday Celebrations and he contributed to the music for the film, Truly, Madly, Deeply in which he also appeared. He composed the incidental music for the first series of Boon. He composed the full music score for the video games Broken Sword 1 and Broken Sword 2. He also composed the soundtrack for the film, Shopgirl. An album of collected works, entitled "Once More With Pheloung", is scheduled for release early in 2009. It is also worth noting that Barrington Pheloung has been (and may still be) an associate lecturer at the South East Essex College (of Arts and Technology)