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Julian Stewart Lindsay is a musical composer, currently residing in the United Kingdom and working as composer-in-residence at Hampton Court House School. He composed the incidental music for several Doctor Who stories.
Biography
Prior to Doctor Who
He was trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Lindsay has worked with artists such as Culture Club, Jermaine Stewart, Stevie Wonder, and The Beach Boys. Lindsay collaborated as a songwriter with Carl Wilson on "Maybe I Don't Know" from The Beach Boys.
Lindsay wrote the string and horn arrangement on Lyin' In Bed by Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers mixing reggae with symphonic music. He also played keyboards for some of the Culture Club sessions; notably piano on "Victims" on Colour by Numbers. Lindsay also co-wrote on the majority of the debut album of Jermaine Stewart's The Word Is Out. Lindsay has written the music for television films and documentaries.
Work on Doctor Who
Lindsay's first Doctor Who credit was creating the incidental music for the Season 33 story The English Way of Death, he then went on to do the incidental music for several more stories from Seasons 33-35.
Lindsay was chosen to compose a new arrangement of the theme tune for Season 35, this theme was used from The Hail Mary-The Chimes of Midnight.
After Doctor Who
In 1999 he was commissioned by the Durham Cathedral Chorister School to write a new work for the millennium to be performed in Durham Cathedral. The result was Vox Dei, a spiritual work inspired by the notion of godliness/spirituality being in everything and everyone. It was performed with a choir of some 200 singers. The organist was Daniel Hyde, who subsequently became an organ scholar at King's College Cambridge. The soloist who sang the title rôle in Vox Dei at its première was Gena West.
Lindsay composed the music for Fox Wars which broadcast on 22 October 2013..
Personal Life
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