Tristin Norwell is a British

British people

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 composer

Composer

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, best known for his music scores and record production. He has been based in London

London

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 since 1992. He rose to notice in the mid 1990s as a record producer and music arranger collaborating with many artists in the late 90's. His efforts with Talvin Singh were rewarded with the 1999 Mercury Prize

Mercury Prize

The Mercury Prize, formerly called the Mercury Music Prize and currently known as the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for sponsorship reasons, is an annual music prize awarded for the best album from the United Kingdom and Ireland. It was established by the British Phonographic Industry and British...

 for the album "O.K.", fending off competition from Chemical Brothers, Blur and Beth Orton amongst others. His work in the 2010 score for the short film Wish 143

Wish 143

Wish 143 is a British live action short film. The film's run time is approximately 24 minutes. It was written by Tom Bidwell, directed by Ian Barnes, and produced by Samantha Waite....

helped earned that film an Academy Award nomination at the 83rd Academy Awards

83rd Academy Awards

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.

Life and career

Norwell originally trained as a classical violinist and saxophonist as a child and his father was a jazz drummer in the controversial Australian jazz rock band Sun 1972

Sun 1972

Originally from Wollongong, a town on the South Coast of NSW Keith Shadwick, Gary Norwell, Henry Correy, Ian Smith and blues guitarist Allan Vander Linden formed a blues band called King Biscuit which play the universities and nightclub circuit in Sydney in 1968-71...

. His career in music began with production mentoring from Charles Fisher (producer)

Charles Fisher (producer)

Charles Fisher is an Australian record producer. Often referred to as the song doctor. He is widely known as the producer of Savage Garden's eponymous album which yielded 10 ARIAs in 1997. "I Want You", a single from the aforementioned album also won a Channel V award in India...

 (Midnight Oil), David A. Stewart

David A. Stewart

David Allan Stewart , often known as Dave Stewart, is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named "Dave Stewart".-Early life:Stewart was born in Sunderland,...

 of the Eurythmics and then Jonny Dollar

Jonny Dollar

Jonathan Peter Sharp , better known under the artistic name Jonny Dollar, was an English Record producer and songwriter mostly known for his work on the Bristol collective Massive Attack's first album Blue Lines, for which he co-wrote the famous single "Unfinished sympathy".Amongst other works, he...

 (Massive Attack). In these times he worked with artists as diverse as Michelle Shocked, Gyan, Died Pretty, Barry Manilow, Terry Hall, Neneh Cherry, Youssou N'Dour, Bootsie Collins, Bernie Worrell, Gabrielle and Frente.

He ventured into record production, mixing and arranging many records with bands including David Holmes

David Holmes

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, Goya Dress, Pebble Beach, Jocasta (band)

Jocasta (band)

Jocasta were a Britpop band formed in London in 1994. They had two minor hit singles and released one album before splitting up in the late 1990s.-History:...

, Gabrielle

Gabrielle

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, Talvin Singh

Talvin Singh

Talvin Singh Matharoo , is a producer and composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass...

, Embrace

Embrace

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, Terry DeCastro, The Crimea

The Crimea

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, Cast

Cast (band)

Cast are an English rock band from Liverpool, formed in 1992 by John Power and Peter Wilkinson after Power left The La's and Wilkinson's former band Shack had split...

 and Warrior Charge. He worked on remixes for Ben & Jason

Ben & Jason

Ben & Jason were a singer-songwriter duo from London consisting of Ben Parker and Jason Hazeley. Formed in 1998 and pre-empting the so-called New Acoustic Movement by about a year, they released three albums on Go! Beat/Universal: Hello, Emoticons and Ten Songs About You...

, Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

, Frente!

Frente!

Frente! are an Australian alternative rock group, formed in 1991. The original lineup featured singer Angie Hart, founder and guitarist Simon Austin, bassist Tim O'Connor , and drummer Mark Picton...

, Talvin Singh

Talvin Singh

Talvin Singh Matharoo , is a producer and composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass...

, Stina Nordenstam

Stina Nordenstam

Stina Nordenstam is a singer, songwriter and musician.-Career:Nordenstam's voice led to early comparisons with artists such as Rickie Lee Jones and Björk. Her early albums, Memories of a Colour and And She Closed Her Eyes were jazz-influenced with elements of alternative rock...

, Jai Uttal

Jai Uttal

Jai Uttal is an American musician and singer-songwriter born in New York City. Often performing with his "Pagan Love Orchestra," Jai's music is influenced by his R&B roots of the 1960s and '70s and by traditional Indian music, which he first became familiar with at age 19.When he was 19, Jai moved...

, Esthero

Esthero

Esthero ,born Jenny-Bea Englishman, is a Canadian singer-songwriter who currently lives in Los Angeles, California. The name Esthero refers both to the singer and formerly to the two-person team of herself and producer Doc McKinney...

, Page & Plant, Curve

Curve

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, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

, Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....

, Alisha's Attic

Alisha's Attic

Alisha's Attic were an English duo of the 1990s and early 2000s. The two members were sisters Shelly McErlaine and Karen Poole, born in Barking and Chadwell Heath respectively. Their father is Brian Poole of 1960s group Brian Poole and the Tremeloes...

, and William Burroughs.

Scoring

Norwell's first solo film score was for the 2001 film Beginner's Luck which starred Julie Delpy & Steven Berkoff. He worked with Jonny Dollar on the Danny Boyle film A Life Less Ordinary

A Life Less Ordinary

A Life Less Ordinary is a 1997 British black comedy film directed by Danny Boyle, written by John Hodge. It stars Ewan McGregor, Cameron Diaz, Holly Hunter, and Delroy Lindo.-Plot:...

 and recorded Ewan McGregor for the film Velvet Goldmine

Velvet Goldmine

Velvet Goldmine is a 1998 British/American drama film directed and co-written by Todd Haynes. The film tells the story of a pop star based mainly on David Bowie's 'Ziggy Stardust' character and is set in Britain during the days of glam rock in the early 1970s.Sandy Powell received another Academy...

 and with Tricky

Tricky

Tricky is an English musician and actor. As a producer and a musician, he is noted for a dark, rich and layered sound and a whispering sprechgesang lyrical style. Culturally, Tricky encourages an intertwining of societies, particularly in his musical fusion of rock and hip hop, high art and pop...

 on the film Red Runners. He also worked with Dave Stewart on film scores Showgirls

Showgirls

Showgirls is a 1995 American drama film directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring former teen actress Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, and Gina Gershon...

 and The Ref

The Ref

The Ref is a 1994 American black comedy film directed by Ted Demme and starring Denis Leary, Judy Davis, and Kevin Spacey.-Plot:...

, and with Talvin Singh on G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time

G:MT - Greenwich Mean Time

G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time is a 1999 British drama film.Starring Steve John Shepherd and Chiwetel Ejiofor, the film features music by Acid Jazz and Jungle artists including Talvin Singh, Hinda Hicks and Imogen Heap...

. He has also scored music for the short films My Everything (Matt Day

Matt Day

Matthew "Matt" Day is an Australian actor best known for his film and television roles.-Early life and career:Matt Day was born in Melbourne in 1971...

), Wish (Matt Day

Matt Day

Matthew "Matt" Day is an Australian actor best known for his film and television roles.-Early life and career:Matt Day was born in Melbourne in 1971...

), and the Academy Award nominated Wish 143

Wish 143

Wish 143 is a British live action short film. The film's run time is approximately 24 minutes. It was written by Tom Bidwell, directed by Ian Barnes, and produced by Samantha Waite....

 (Ian Barnes).

In 2003, he co-founded the London-based music house Norwell & Green. Together, he and his close friend and former Anxious Record's solo artist Nick Green have scored more than 100 episodes of hugely successful prime time television including 55 Degrees North

55 Degrees North

55 Degrees North is a BBC television drama series starring Don Gilet as DS Nicky Cole, a London detective relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne after exposing police corruption. Dervla Kirwan co-stars as Claire Maxwell, an ambitious solicitor....

 for BBC, Drop Dead Gorgeous (TV series)

Drop Dead Gorgeous (TV series)

Drop Dead Gorgeous is a British comedy-drama for BBC Three. Set in Runcorn, it tells the story of 15-year-old Ashley Webb , whose life is turned upside-down when she is approached by a spotter from a local modelling agency...

 for Hat Trick, and The Invisibles (TV series)

The Invisibles (TV series)

The Invisibles is a British 2008 comedy drama series created and written by William Ivory for the BBC. It was produced by Company Pictures, shot in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.-Premise:...

 for Company Pictures. Their work on the Ashley Pharoah

Ashley Pharoah

Ashley Pharoah is a British Television writer, co-creator of the successful drama series Life on Mars, which began on BBC One in 2006....

 ITV series Wild at Heart (TV series)

Wild at Heart (TV series)

Wild at Heart is a current ITV television drama series about a Bristol-based vet and his family emigrating to start a game park in South Africa. The show premiered in January 2006 and has recently finished screening its sixth series...

 drew an unprecedented 13m viewers on its debut, and their score for this series was subsequently released by AWAL. They wrote further scores for Hope Springs

Hope Springs

Hope Springs is a 2003 romantic-comedy film, based on the novel New Cardiff, by Charles Webb, about Colin , an English painter who comes to the United States after a traumatic experience. It is there that he meets Mandy , a nursing home worker who helps him get over the breakup between him and Vera...

 for Shed Productions, as well as Waterloo Road (TV series)

Waterloo Road (TV series)

Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...

, the BBC flagship teen drama, which won the 2011 National TV Awards "Most Popular Drama".

Norwell & Green are also responsible for having written all the music for 7 TV Films including the 2010 BBC Christmas Special Whistle and I'll Come to You

Whistle and I'll Come to You

Whistle and I'll Come to You is the name of two BBC television drama adaptations based on the ghost story "Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad" by Victorian and Edwardian academic and supernatural writer M. R. James. The story tells the tale of an introverted academic who happens upon a...

, the supernatural ghost story written by M.R. James and starring John Hurt

John Hurt

John Vincent Hurt, CBE is an English actor, known for his leading roles as John Merrick in The Elephant Man, Winston Smith in Nineteen Eighty-Four, Mr. Braddock in The Hit, Stephen Ward in Scandal, Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant and An Englishman in New York...

. One of their earliest films was the adaptation of the biography Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! is a 2006 BBC Four television play starring Michael Sheen as the English comic actor Kenneth Williams, based on Williams' own diaries...

 starring Michael Sheen

Michael Sheen

Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE , is a Welsh stage and screen actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England and made his professional debut opposite Vanessa Redgrave in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre in 1991...

. They scored the adaptation of Meera Syal's Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee

Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee is a 1999 novel by Meera Syal that was later adapted into a three-part BBC television miniseries in 2005. Childhood friends Tania , Sunita and Chila are now in their 30s and at a crossroads in life...

, and David Tennant's dramatic portrayal of a memory-loss victim in Recovery (TV drama)

Recovery (TV drama)

Recovery is a British television film, first broadcast on BBC One in 2007, starring David Tennant and Sarah Parish.-Summary:It deals with the life of Alan Hamilton , the former head of a construction firm, after he receives serious personality-changing brain injuries in a road accident, and the...

. Together they also scored two of Frank Cottrell Boyce

Frank Cottrell Boyce

-Awards:*2004: Buch des Monats des Instituts für Jugendliteratur/Book of the Month by the Institute for Youth Literature , Millions*2004: Carnegie Medal, Millions*2004: Luchs des Jahres , Millions...

's television plays, God on Trial

God on Trial

God on Trial is a 2008 BBC/WGBH Boston television play written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, starring Antony Sher, Rupert Graves and Jack Shepherd. The play takes place in Auschwitz during World War II. The Jewish prisoners put God on trial in absentia for abandoning the Jewish people...

 starring Stellan Skarsgard & Dominic Cooper for Hat Trick, and the BBC TV film Framed

Framed

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 starring Trevor Eve. They also put pen to the stave under Julie Walter's performance in Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story

Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story is a 2008 BBC Television docudrama written by Amanda Coe, telling the life story of the British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse...

 for BBC.

He has also written much music for advertising.

He continues to write scores for film and television and to produce, mix and arrange records.

External links

• http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tristin+Norwell
• http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tristin-norwell-p110243/credits