Visit Wales 2016 "Find Your Epic"
We've created the music for the 2016 Visit Wales campaign, including TV advert and five films celebrating adventure in Wales.
Christmas season Hinterland
The second series of Hinterland starts on BBC One Wales on Wednesday 23rd December. This bilingual version will be shown on.
ALCHEMY release
The second series of Hinterland starts on BBC One Wales on Wednesday 23rd December. This bilingual version will be shown on...
Mom and Me premiere
Creative documentary Mom and Me has been turning heads following the premiere at Telluride, with a four-star Guardian review
Insights: ILIAD - creating a unique sense of time, place & environment
It was back in the early summer of 2013 that I first started discussions with Mike Pearson & Mike Brookes about Christopher Logue’s...
Guardian five star review for ILIAD
The Guardian has given ILIAD a five star review, saying "it may be the theatrical event of the decade."
"But so much here leaves you breathless. We are invited to hover above whole armies, then swoop in for a...
Insights: Filling the space with sound
I knew that I would have the creative freedom to fill the space with sound, and so I aimed to create rich and gradually evolving textures...
John features on BBC Radio 3 Sound of Cinema
"Opera is an opportunity to move outside the box." Hear John discuss the deep connections between opera and film music...
Celtic Media Festival success
We're very pleased that The Hunchback in the Park won the Celtic Media Festival Animation prize...
Insights: The Hunchback in the Park
Watch the 'making of' film about the soundtrack for The Hunchback in the Park, composed by John Hardy and recorded by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by John Hardy...
'Best Drama Series' at Celtic Media Festival
Hinterland / Y Gwyll won the award for 'Best Drama Series' at the 2014 Celtic Media Festival, ahead of other shortlisted drama series Dr Who, The Fall and Alys...
Insights: How to Score a Television Drama
the slightly scary but very exciting process of creating, from scratch, a sophisticated and tightly composed soundtrack...