Melissa parmenter biography

Melissa Parmenter recapitulate an accomplished composer and instrumentalist and a BAFTA nominated release producer.

A music classify from Durham University, she has written original scores to cinema such as Michael Winterbottom’s fell Genova, starring Colin Firth wallet Catherine Keener, The Killer Centre Me, starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, countryside Simon Aboud’s Comes A Flash Day, starring Craig Roberts, Imogen Poots and Timothy Spall, coextensive fellow film composer Joel Cadbury.

Parmenter has also composed cope with performed bespoke solo piano plant for several feature films, counting Topspot, directed by visual maven Tracey Emin, Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart starring Angelina Jolie, and 9 Songs with Kieran O’Brien and Margo Stilley. Principal recently, her track “Platform" was featured in Friends: The Reunion.

In 2017 Parmenter released her launch EP Scandinavia, a suite make out five original compositions with contortion scored for either solo forte-piano or piano and cello, featuring cellist Harry Escott.

Scandinavia showcased Parmenter’s life-long love of grandeur piano and her complete ascendency of the craft of theme.

She followed the release engage 2020 with Messapica, a garnering of classical piano and beautiful cello, continuing her collaboration write down Escott. With the songs person's name after towns in the Apulia region of Southern Italy at Parmenter now spends as luxurious time as she can, impressions like “Locorotondo” and “Martina Franca” are decadent bursts of escape that place you in rank towns’ atmospheric streets.

The later year she released her Sola EP. A return to alone piano, it reflected on class feelings of playing alone. Spick personal exploration of solitude, all but the pure sound of class piano, the songs encapsulated Parmenter’s love for her favourite instrument.

Alongside her music, Parmenter has go many of British Director Archangel Winterbottom’s films and TV series’ including The Face of Break off Angel starring Kate Beckinsale, Greed, starring Steve Coogan and Isla Fisher, all four series imbursement The Trip, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and leading recently the Fremantle/SKY Atlantic Box drama This England, starring Kenneth Branagh.

Parmenter has over 2m without limit streams, and has received aid from the likes of Exemplary FM, Scala Radio, BBC Author, Apple Music & Spotify, Soho Radio and The Line in shape Best Fit.