Paul McKinley
Paul McKinley was born and raised in rural Somerset where he developed a passion for music making and composition. He enrolled at the Huddersfield School of Music in 1993 before undertaking a degree in Performance & Academic Studies at the Birmingham Conservatoire in 1995, where he studied composition with John Woolf an MD at the RSC in Stratford.
He graduated from Bristol University in 2001 with an MA in Composition for Film, Theatre & Commercial Music having studied alongside the composer Martin Kiszco.
In 2003 he returned to his roots to establish a music business incorporating diverse composition and arrangement projects. Based within his home studios, where he utilizes the latest computer Logic Pro sequencing and Sibelius 6 notational software, he has successfully worked alongside music societies and groups, individual composers and publishers, educational practices as well as independent filmmakers and animators.
In 2006 he became a Music Lecturer at Bridgwater College, where he teaches composition and arranging, listening and music theory skills, sequencing, music technology and historical research.
He is also employed by Edexcel as an Examiner/Moderator on both the BTEC and GCE Music syllabus.
- ‘COMA’ – Short-listed Chamber work July 2004.
- Birmingham Chamber Music Society Composition Winner 1999.
- Huddersfield School of Music Composition Prize 1995.
- Member of British Academy of Songwriters and Composers.
- Member of Film Music network.
