Guy Dagul

Young and inspiring Guy DagulAfter Guy graduated from the Royal Northern college of Music (GRNCM) and Manchester University (Bmus) his career took a parallel course in both performance and composition. As a concert pianist, apart from appearing regularly with his parents (Isabel Beyer and Harvey Dagul), with whom he made many recordings and TV appearances, Guy was a busy soloist, accompanist and chamber musician. He has played in most of the leading concert halls - Wigmore Hall, Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall etc - was a member of the Decchler Piano Trio and accompanist to the London Elizabethan Singers.

Guy's sight-reading skills got him plenty of work as a session pianist working on numerous projects with George Fenton and Trevor Jones. Having created a piano album of George's work, and performed his music on stage (with Alan Bates, Zoe Wannamaker, Tim Piggot-Smith, Robert Hardy, Jennifer Ehle and others) in theatrical productions, Guy became orchestrator for Trevor and worked in his studios in London and Hollywood on many projects in all sorts of roles including co-composer on such films as "Mississippi Burning", "Sea of Love", "Arachnophobia", "The Last of the Mohicans", "Cliffhanger" and "In the Name of the Father". Guy having a studio workout

In 1995 Guy set up his own studio in Oxfordshire and there he composes music for TV and radio. Recent film work includes scoring "Greenfingers" with Helen Mirren, Natasha Little and Clive Owen, "Happy Birthday" produced and directed by Helen Mirren and starring John Goodman and a South Bank Special Feature, "Broken Morning".

Apart from his work in film and television, Guy has formed many collaborations with song writers and other musicians, working in the 'classical crossover' genre, opera, symphonic and in the ambient acid jazz world.

Away from his studio, Guy cogitates in his fragrant Oxfordshire garden and occasionally plays keyboard for the best rock covers band there has ever been - Lucky To Be Alive! He is also an expert on giving his three teenage children (Rose, Sam and Bill) a really, really hard time. (One day, they'll thank him for all the advice given).

Someone once referred to him as "pure genius"..............but he thinks that might have been his (then) oh so slightly senile grandmother a very, very long time ago. And it probably wasn't about his music making!  


Film

The Last of the Mohicans - Sample 1 | Sample 2
Greenfingers - Sample 1 | Sample 2
Happy Birthday - Sample
Anticlock - Sample
Broken Morning South Bank Special (ITV)
Mississippi Burning
Sea of Love
Blame it on the Bellboy
Arachnophobia
Freejack
Cliffhanger - Sample 1 | Sample 2
In the Name of the Father - Sample
Hideaway
Kiss of Death
Crisscross - Sample

 

Television

Paddington Green (Lion TV / BBC) - Sample
Beijing Olympics Torch Relay Commercial (New Moon) - Sample
Willo The Wisp (Children's Animation Series)
Fact or Fiction (Channel 4) - Sample
Storm Force (Pioneer / Discovery )
Delia's How to Cook (BBC) - Sample
Challenger (Pioneer / Channel 4) - Sample 1 | Sample 2
Cover Up (ITV) series re cold war - Sample
Alpine Rescue (Pioneer / Channel 5)
Festival Of Taste (New Moon) - Sample 1 | Sample 2
Natural World-Shipwrecks of the Coral Seas (BBC)
Extreme Machines (Pioneer / Discovery) - Sample
Charles and Camilla (ITV / Diverse)
Equinox (Channel 4)
Natural World-Top Cat (BBC)
Lost Scrolls of Herculaneum (Cicada / Ch 4) - Sample 1 | Sample 2
Party Animals (Curious / Channel 4) childrens series - Sample
Surviving in the Wild (Cafe /Atlantic Alliance)
Africa from the Ground Up (Hit / National Geographic)
The Investigators (Curious / Channel 4) childrens series - Sample
Return to the Wild (Cafe / Carlton)
Volcano Detectives (Pioneer / Channel 4)
Hidden Europe (Cicada / Animal Planet)
Mend it like Beckham (ITN Factual)
Wild Islands (Channel 5)
Confessions of a Germ (Atlantic Alliance / Cafe)
Concorde the Comeback (ITN Factual)
Giant Monsters (Wall to Wall / Discovery)
Running the Gauntlet (Carlton)
Mary Archer (Ladybird / Channel 4)
Voyage of the Dragon Kings (Parthenon) - Sample
Dawn of the Maya (National Geographic Special) - Sample
NYPD Animal Squad (Cicada / Animal Planet)
The Hunt For Lord Lucan (Ladybird / Channel 4)
Tusks And Tattoos (Parthenon / NG)
Krakatoa (Pioneer / Channel 4)
The Life Of Castro (Parthenon / NG)

Commercials

Algeria - Sample
Beijing TNT - Sample
Honda - Sample
Lenovo - Sample
Pyramid - Sample
The Scottish Play - Sample
Burj Al Arab Commercial - Sample

 

Collaborations


2-Way Thing (with Rod Thomas)- Sample
Darling Vivian (with 'Legs' Larry Smith) - Sample
Distant Shores (with Lance Ellington) - Sample
Lost In The Memory Of You (with Lucinda Barry) - Sample