neil haydock: music composer and arranger

Neil's career has taken him on a musical journey which covers many disciplines - from the web of musical theatre, to the sound of big band swing -  from large orchestral works to experimental electronic scores. Neil seeks to create an original sound with each new commission or collaboration.

Neil is a music writer for TV, film, dance and the stage. As well as work for the BBC and ITV, he has also undertaken several commissions as a musical arranger, including “Music 2000”, featuring Art Garfunkel. Neil has also completed a commission for the score to the British movie “The Biggest Thing That Ever Hit Broadway”.

For the stage, Neil has collaborated with West End playwright Kate Betts, in 1998 for the musical “Invisible Tears”, and also in 2004 for the children’s musical “Wilde Times”. Both musicals were professionally staged in the Minerva at the internationally acclaimed Chichester Festival Theatre. Neil has also had the pleasure of working with Oxford University Press (China), composing and arranging the score for a new musical for teenagers entitled “Nothing Is Impossible!”, premiered in Hong Kong in November 2009. In recent years Neil has been developing soundtracks and films for Prayerscapes, a multimedia creative prayer resource available at Youtube, and published on all the major digital platforms including iTunes and Spotify. With over 6 million views at its Youtube channel, Prayerscapes is used widely across the world in schools, prisons, churches, conferences and even Hawaiian wedding ceremonies!

Neil currently lives and works in Chichester, England.