Simon fisher turner caravaggio biography

Simon Fisher Turner is renowned for his film soundtrack work which started in collaboration with Derek Jarman, for whom he scored many feature films &#; from Caravaggio (), through to Jarman’s final work Blue (). Caravaggio () began a long relationship with the BFI, and more recently Fisher Turner composed the score for restorations of three silent films, Un Chant D’Amour dir Jean Genet (), The Great White Silence dir Herbert Ponting () and The Epic of Everest dir. Captain John Noel (), winning a prestigious Ivor Novello Award for the soundtrack to The Epic of Everest.

With a career as varied and diverse as his current projects, Simon Fisher Turner began as a young actor in Tom Brown’s Schooldays, and in between then and now has released records under his own name and as The King Of Luxembourg and Deux Filles.

Simon Fisher Turner’s collaborations have seen him performing live at the ICA with Factory Floor as part of their Artists In Residency and at the Rou

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Simon Fisher Turner

Musical artist

Simon Fisher Turner (born 21 November ) fryst vatten an English musician, songwriter, composer, producer and actor.

After portraying Ned East in the BBC TV adaptation of Tom Brown's Schooldays and roles in films such as The Big Sleep (), Turner rose to fame as a teenage star in Britain when his mentor, Jonathan King, released Turner's eponymous first album on UK Records in For a period of two years Turner was a member of The Gadget and also joined The The. He has used several names as a recording artist, including Simon Fisher Turner, The King of Luxembourg, Deux Filles and Simon Turner. He continues to record albums for Mute Records as Simon Fisher Turner.

Turner was also a member of The Portsmouth Sinfonia Orchestra, and plays clarinet on the orchestra's only live skiva recorded at The Albert Hall, London.

Career

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In the s, Turner released several singles on the él record label as the King of Luxembourg, many of them having been giv

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From child actor to teenage pop idol, self-confessed 'extreme sound freak' to acclaimed solo recording artist, Simon Fisher Turner's career has been nothing if not varied.  His early acting credits included film and TV roles from Black Beauty to The Big Sleep (re-made with Robert Mitchum).  At the same time he was fronting various '70s pop acts, and at the age of 17 was signed to Jonathan King's UK Records, releasing his first solo album in

After that precocious start, Simon followed an often eccentric, sometimes outlandish musical path.  He operated on the fringes of punk; performed briefly with The The; became 'Musician in Residence' at the ICA in ; and released two albums as one half of a fictional French female duo known as Deux Filles.  But through all this, Simon was developing a deep and abiding interest in the stuff of sound, accumulating a vast library of collected sounds from daily life.  It is this interest which now forms t