Paddy is a composer and violinist from London. Having graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he has gone on to work with London orchestras, major commercial artists, Hollywood film productions and West End musicals. As a highly accomplished instrumentalist, Paddy can bring organic and real sounds to the scores he writes.
As a composer Paddy’s music has been used on Sky Sports Cricket for the T20 Cricket World Cup 2024, BBC One’s The One Show and Panorama, ITV’s Love Your Garden, Unbelievable Moments Caught on Camera, Tonight 2021, On Assignment and the documentary After The Storm: America’s Enemy Within about the Capitol riots as well as Channel 5’s Coastal Devon & Cornwall. Paddy has also composed extensively for production music libraries including Boost Music, Lift Music, Big Screen Music, Absolute Music, Bibliotheque and BMG Production Music. Paddy’s music has also been used on BBC radio, ABC1 in Australia and NHK TV in Japan as well as several other international broadcasters. He also has a major trailer album scheduled for release by Bibliotheque early 2025.
As a musician Paddy has performed and recorded with orchestras such as BBC Concert Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra and English National Ballet and artists including Paul McCartney, George Michael, Rihanna, Dua Lipa, Becky Hill, Raye, Liam Gallagher, Barbra Streisand, Gladys Knight, Massive Attack, Nick Cave, The Arctic Monkeys as well as many others.
He has performed on soundtracks for major Hollywood films and TV productions including Wolf Man (Universal, 2025), Argylle (2023), Amsterdam (2022), The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Lionsgate), Ridley Scott’s Prometheus (20th Century Fox), African Cats (Disney), Red Lights (Millennium Films), The Lady In The Van (TriStar), Poltergeist (Fox, 2015) and the TV series Downton Abbey, Hornblower (ITV), and Doctor Who, Frozen Planet and Wild Isles (BBC).
He is also a member of Heritage Orchestra who perform regularly at the BBC Proms and recorded the album Ibiza Classics which reached no.1 on the UK album charts and now tour UK and European arenas with the Ibiza Classics arena show.
Paddy also performed on Liam Gallagher’s MTV Unplugged album which reached Number One in the UK Album Charts, Raye’s acclaimed 2023 Live Album “My 21st Century Symphony” and the new Becky Hill album, Believe Me Now? released in 2024.
