Arranger & Orchestrator

Lawrence (Larry) Ashmore

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Larry graduated from the Royal College of Music, London.Studies : Composition, Double Bass, Conducting.
Joined Boyd Neel Chamber Orchestra and later, London Symphony and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, playing double bass. Subsequently played bass free-lance in all areas of the profession from Opera to Rock.
In 1966, joined BBC Radio as Arranger, working in Light Entertainment department. Transferred to TV to work on new show, "Top of the Pops", doing the show live each week, for three years.

Since 1971 has worked commercially mainly in realm of Cinema and TV Films (as far back as 1961 had worked on "Lawrence of Arabia") and, to date, has completed arranging or orchestrating over 130 Film Scores.

Following an eight year period from 1979 living in Spain and the USA and working also at his other career of Painter, continued Film and Recording work with Instrumental Albums of music by Abba, John Denver and Harry Belafonte. Returned to Britain in 1987 and joined Howard Blake, composer of "The Snowman", and assisted him with the completion of five major concert works .(See Credit list)

That year had also returned to the world of Film Music having met Patrick Doyle who was about to start on the score for Kenneth Branagh's "Henry V", Patrick's first feature film. For their work on this picture Patrick and Larry won an Ivor Novello Award (best film score). Has now scored nearly all Pat's pictures and also a number of scores for three other British composers, Trevor Jones, Rachel Portman and Jenny Muskett, and while in the US has also worked with several composers including Lawrence Rosenthal and Basil Poledouris.
In the field of Concert Music he has orchestrated Three ballets for composer Paul Reade : "Hobson's Choice", "Far from the Madding Crowd" and "Byron", all for Birmingham Royal Ballet. For Patrick Doyle, scored "The Thistle and the Rose", a song cycle for soprano, chorus and orchestra, commissioned by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales to commemorate the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.

RCA Records commissioned him to write and arrange for the American clarinettist, Richard Stolzman, music by Gerald Finzi and Larry himself, on an album of English music. This year he arranged a newly discovered piece by Armstrong Gibbs for the Guildhall String Ensemble which will be premiered at the Wigmore Hall in November. They have already recorded it on the Hyperion label.

Recent film workhas been centered around a French picture, "East West" and arrangements and orchestrations for the Kenneth Branagh Musical production of "Love's Labour's Lost", and more recently Bridget Jones's Diary.

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Films

The Fall of the Roman Empire (D. Tiomkin)
Lawrence of Arabia (Maurice Jarre)
Pope Joan (Maurice Jarre)
When Eight Bells Toll (Wally Stott)
Julius Caesar (Michael Lewis)
Theatre of Blood (Michael Lewis)
Lady Caroline Lamb (Richard Rodney Bennett)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (Miklos Rosza)
Straw Dogs (Arr. Source Music)
The Great Waltz (Arrangements)
Agatha (Johnny Mandel)
Amityville III (Howard Blake)
Henry V (Patrick Doyle)
Dead Again (Patrick Doyle)
Indochine (Patrick Doyle)
Much Ado about Nothing (Patrick Doyle)
Arachnaphobia (Trevor Jones)
Cliffhanger (Trevor Jones)
Carlito's Way (Patrick Doyle)
Frankenstein (Patrick Doyle)
The Jungle Book (Basil Poledouris)
A Little Princess (Patrick Doyle)
Lassie (Basil Poledouris)
Sense and Sensibility (Patrick Doyle)
Pinocchio (Rachel Portman)
Hamlet (Patrick Doyle)
Donny Brasco (Patrick Doyle)
Great Expectations (Patrick Doyle)
Quest for Camelot (songs and Underscore. David Foster -
- Carol Bager Sager, Patrick Doyle)
Les Miserables (Basil Poledouris)
Love's Labour's Lost (Patrick Doyle)
Bridget Jones's Diary

TV

Upon this Rock (CBS)
News at Ten (title ; Thames)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (ABC TV)
Astra TV Satellite launch
1996 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony

Concert Works

The March of the Human Spirit - (Mikis Theodarakis)

Three Ballets : "Hobson's Choice", "Byron" and
"Far from the Madding Crowd" - (Paul Reade)

Four Concert Works : "The Song of St. Francis" (Cantata)
"Diversions" (Cello & Orchestra)
"Concert Dances" (Large Wind Orchestra
"Toccata" (Orchestra) - (Howard Blake)

"The Thistle and the Rose" (Soprano, Chorus & Orchestra)
- (Patrick Doyle)

"Pictures at an Exhibition" (arr. for Piano & Orchestra) - (Mussorgsky)

"Fantasie" in F minor (arr. for Orchestra) - (Schubert)

"Five Bagatelles" (Arr. for Clarinet & String Orchestra) - (Gerald Finzi)

"Four Seasons" A Suite of English Folk Song settings
(Clarinet & String Orchestra) - (Lawrence Ashmore)

"The Face in the Lake" (Narrator & Chamber Orchestra) - (Patrick Doyle)

"Prelude, Andante & Finale" (for String Orchestra) - (Armstrong Gibbs)
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