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Simon Hale

Simon Hale is a British composer, arranger and keyboard player in the recording industry.

Life

He was born in Birmingham, England in 1964 and grew up there and South Manchester until moving to London. Simon studied performance and composition at Goldsmiths College, University of London between 1982-85. He is married to Claire Moore (singer).

Work

He is best known for his arrangements on CDs for Jamiroquai, Björk, Duncan Sheik, Incognito, Supergrass, The Beautiful South, George Benson, Josh Groban, Charlotte Church, Robin Gibb and others. As well as arranging on Duncan Sheik's solo CDs, Simon has also done orchestrations on Duncan's songs for the film "A Home at the end of the world" and the Broadway Musical "Spring Awakening" which won 8 Tony awards in June 2007, including "Best Orchestrations" by Duncan and Simon. The original cast recording won the Grammy for Best Musical Show album in 2008. He has released one solo CD "East Fifteen", written for piano, trumpet/flugelhorn, tenor saxophone, percussion and strings. He appeared with The Bays at their performance as part of the Fresh Festival in Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall in January 2008. The concert was entirely improvised, including all the orchestral parts, written live on stage by Simon and John Metcalfe.

Quotes

"I need to thank Simon Hale, who should be up here with me tonight because he did these amazing string arrangements for our show, and we worked together for ten years and he is awesome." Duncan Sheik acceptance speech for Tony Award "Best Orchestrations" on Spring Awakening 2007

"with the Middle-Eastern tonalities replaced by the swirling string arrangements of Simon Hale, which lends the album a melodramatic politicised tone akin to Curtis Mayfield's mid-Seventies work." Andy Gill The Independent 23/9/2007

Solo Releases

"East Fifteen" EFZ Records 1994

References

External links

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