Simon Russell is an EMMY Award winning freelance composer from the UK, composing music in a diverse range of styles for both Film and TV productions.
2014 EMMY Awards
Marc Bryan-Brown Photography.
® 2014 Marc Bryan-Brown.
Simon was awarded an EMMY in 2014 for his original soundtrack to “Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer”, a documentary film by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin.
April 2022
composing for a 3 part series The Wives about the victims of Warren Jeffs
composing for a new Netflix film
writing music for a new series The Rise and Fall of TopShop
March 2022
F@ck This Job a.k.a. Tango With Putin is being shown on BBC 4 2nd March at 10pm
F@ck This Job wins Human Rights Award at Thessaloniki Doc Festival
February 2022
Handmade in Bolton repeated from 13th February BBC Four
F@ck This Job screening in UK cinemas from 24th February
January 2022
repeat of Waldemar Januszczak’s 4 part series The Impressionists: Painting & Revolution begins 17th Jan BBC Four 8pm
composing for 3 part series Ghislaine Maxwell; Sex, Lies and Secrets? (Channel 4/Starz)
composing for The Wives – series about the victims of Warren Jeffs