Philip Lane was born in Cheltenham in 1950 and read music at Birmingham University with ]ohn Joubert and Peter Dickinson. As a composer he has had works performed at, amongst others, Bath, Cheltenham and the Three Choirs Festivals and broadcast in the UK and abroad. He is also active in the commercial field with much 'mood' music, special scores for BBC plays plus music for the cartoon series "The Adventures of Captain Pugwash" and "Marco and Gina". Philip is also a prolific arranger and orchestrator mostly in the area of reconstructed classic film scores for CD recordings, most recently in the ongoing Chandos Movie Series with the BBC Philharmonic. He is also a freelance record producer of mainly British orchestral and film music discs, one of which won 1998 "Film Music Disc of the Year" in the Gramophone Awards.