Simon Fischer Turner

Simon Fisher Turner is a composer and musician noted for his film soundtrack work which started in collaboration with Derek Jarman, scoring many of his films, including Caravaggio (1986); Last of England (1987); The Garden, 1990 and Jarman’s final work Blue (1993). Caravaggio (1986) as well the score for restorations of three silent films, Un Chant D’Amour, directed by Jean Genet (1950), The Great White Silence, directed by Herbert Ponting (1924) and The Epic of Everest, directed by Captain John Noel (1924). He received the Ivor Novello Award for the soundtrack to The Epic of Everest. As well as composing for films, he has performed extensively and released many albums the most recent of which is A Quiet Corner in Time a collaboration with the artist and author Edmund de Waal.