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Tim Atack, English composer of film and television music
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Tim recently completed the original music for "I scored a goal in the Fifa world cup final".A series of 34 short documentary films for ESPN featuring testimony from the only men alive to have scored a goal in a world cup final.

THE INVENTION OF LYING (Ricky Gervais) is now out on DVD. CEMETERY JUNCTION written and directed by Ricky Gervais and Steven Merchant with original score by Tim is also now out on DVD.

Tim also recently completed the score for REUNITING THE RUBINS, A comedy drama about a completely dysfunctional Jewish family starring Timothy Spall and Honor Blackman .

DEAD CERT starring Jason Flemying and Danny Dyer with original score by Tim is set for release later this year. Recent TV projects include "Other people" starring Martin Freeman for channel 4. Just prior to this he completed composing the score on the short feature film Wounded knee directed by Emma Burge for Hayhead films and is currently working on a number of song writing projects. In 2007 he composed the score for the BBC 2 series Romans Empire starring Matt Horne(directed by Elliot Hegarty and produced by Ben Cavey for Tiger Aspect productions). Tim wrote the music for the BBCs spectacular production of Krakatoa - The Last Days, directed by Sam Miller, and Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Brian Percival, for the BBCs contemporary Shakespeare Retold series, produced by Diederick Santer. His other recent tv drama credits include ITVs Quite Ugly One Morning, starring James Nesbitt, directed by Sam Miller for Clerkenwell Films; and the BBCs live production of The Quatermass Experiment for which he provided a totally live as it happens score for the re-make of this seminal cult work starring Jason Flemyng and David Tennant.

Composer Credits
His feature film credits include Among Giants (Kudos/Fox Searchlight), starring Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Griffiths and Lennie James; and Elephant Juice (HAL/Miramax), starring Emmanuelle Beart and Daniel Lapaine. Both films were directed by Sam Miller.

The song KISSING YOU, which he co-wrote and produced with DESREE, played an important musical role in Baz Luhrmanns cult 1996 movie Romeo & Juliet (20th Century Fox). In addition to being a featured song, the instrumental version was used extensively throughout the movie providing the main theme for the music score. The best example of this can be heard in the Balcony scene. The film premiered at no. 1 at the US box office and was a huge international hit. The soundtrack album has sold in excess of 6 million copies worldwide and was number 1 in many countries.

BIOGRAPGHY
About Tim Atack
In the early 90s he toured and recorded with Oleta Adams and Desree, becoming the latters Musical Director in 1995. He did three world tours with Desree in two years, promoting the I Aint Movin album, which sold 1.7 million copies worldwide. It was while they were performing in Australia that they co-wrote Kissing You which Baz Luhrmann heard and later featured in Romeo & Juliet.

In 1998 Tim wrote, recorded and produced a number of tracks with Desree for her album Supernatural. In the second half of 1998 Tim worked with Desree as keyboard player and Musical Director to promote this album on her world tour. He has also featured on keyboards on live dates with Michael Kamen and Bryan Ferry.

AWARD NOMINATION
1997 Golden satallite awards (Nomination)
Best original song Kissing You From the film Romeo and Juliet. Written by Tim Atack and Desree. Performed by Desree