A unique theatrical presentation of the most remarkable film sequences from the celebrated BBC/Discovery television series The Blue Planet. The wonders of our underwater world are displayed on a giant screen while a full orchestra perform the dazzling Emmy Award-winning score composed by George Fenton. The program appeals perfectly to a broad family audience.

There has never been such an elaborate or theatrical presentation of Natural History.

About George Fenton

George Fenton began writing music for the theatre in 1974 and has worked extensively for The Royal Shakespeare Company, The National Theatre and Riverside Studios. Scores include Good, Mother Courage, Racing Demon, and most recently, Othello (Stratford 1999).

Since 1983, he has devoted much of his time to feature films and now divides his work between London and Hollywood. Film credits include: 84 Charing Cross Road, White Mischief, The Dressmaker, High Spirits, A Handful of Dust, The Company of Wolves, Memphis Belle, White Palace, The Long Walk Home, Final Analysis, Accidental Hero, Groundhog Day, Shadowlands, Ladybird Ladybird, Mixed Nuts, The Madness of King George, Land and Freedom, Heaven's Prisoners, Mary Reilly, The Crucible, Carla's Song, In Love and War, My Name is Joe, Ever After, Living Out Loud, You've Got Mail. Most recent scores include Anna and the King, Sweet Sixteen and Sweet Home Alabama and to be released later this year, Christopher Hampton's Imagining Argentina.

His film scores have been nominated for five Oscars: Ghandi, Dangerous Liaisons, Cry Freedom (Best Song and Best Score) and The Fisher King and three Golden Globes: Cry Freedom, and Anna and The King (Best Song and Best Score).

He has received BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards and nominations for work on television plays and features, such as Going Gently, Walter, Bergerac, Shoestring, The Jewel in the Crown, The History Man, The Monocled Mutineer, The Trials of Life, Life in the Freezer, Beyond the Clouds and Shanghai Vice. TV work also includes scores for several plays by Alan Bennett, such as An Englishman Abroad, Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf and 102 Boulevard Haussmann, Talking Heads Series 1 & 2 and Telling Tales. Last year he won both BAFTA and Ivor Novello awards and an Emmy for ‘Best Original Television Music’, for his score to the BBC’s Natural History series, The Blue Planet.

Besides writing music to picture he as composed Five Parts of the Dance for Graham Ashton, Birthday, a children’s opera and, in collaboration with Alan Bennett, Hymn, commissioned by Harrogate International Festival to celebrate the 30^th Anniversary of the Medici String Quartet.

He lectures at Liverpool University, the Royal College of Music and at Nottingham University where he holds a Special Professorship.