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Nigel Hess studied music at Cambridge University where he was musical director of the "Footlights Revue Company". Since leaving Cambridge he has sustained an active composing career for the stage, for television and with a more recent introduction to film. From 1981-85 he was Music Director and composer for the Royal Shakespeare Company on productions such as "Much Ado About Nothing", "Cyrano de Bergerac", "Julis Caesar" and "Othello". His numerous credits for television have largely been for dramatic series and mini-series, including "A Woman of Substance", "Vanity Fair", "Campion", "Maigret", "Just William" "Testament", and "Hetty Wainthropp Investigates". Hess scored the...

Britischer Sänger, Gitarrist und Songwriter, geboren 1950 in Dudley, arbeitete zunächst im Zoo von Dudley, zog 1969 nach Jersey um im dortigen Zoo zu arbeiten. Schrieb schon sehr früh Gedichte und Songs. Als er "keine Lust mehr Leute beim Tiere angucken anzugucken" zog er nach Cornwall wo er noch heute lebt. Nimmt seit 1976 Alben auf. Sein erstes Album war "Ship to Shore" Arbeitete mit namhaften Musikern zusammen z.B. Guy Evans von Van Der Graaf Generator, Roy Harper, Steve Jolliffe von Tangerine Dream, Steve Hillage und Nik Turner von Hawkwind. Diskographie: Ship to Shore (CD Neuauflage hat 23 Minuten von...

Nigel Eaton is a British hurdy gurdy player. He played piano and 'cello, moving to the hurdy-gurdy when his father, Christopher Eaton, started to make them in 1981. In 1985 he joined the group Blowzabella with whom he has toured extensively in Britain, Europe and South America and recorded three albums. He studied baroque music repertoire and technique for the hurdy-gurdy with Doreen Muskett at the Guildhall School of Music and contemporary hurdy-gurdy techniques with Valentin Clastrier in France. In 1986 he won the hurdy-gurdy soloists competition at the St. Chartier Hurdy-Gurdy & Bagpipe Festival, France; following this up in...