Recording Engineer, Score Mixer & Producer

Gareth Cousins is an award-winning score mixer, music editor, composer and producer with more than thirty-five years in film, television and music recording. He began at Abbey Road Studios in 1986, engineering and producing for artists including Phil Collins, Sting, Elvis Costello, Vanessa-Mae, Roger Daltrey, The Stranglers and Syd Barrett, and went on to produce Jeff Wayne's reworked The War of the Worlds and the classical-crossover group Bond.

In film, his score-mixing credits run across many of the most successful productions of the past three decades. As scoring mixer on Gravity he won a Cinema Audio Society Award; the film's score went on to win the Academy Award and BAFTA. His work also includes Baby Driver, Suicide Squad, The World's End, Last Night in Soho, Fury, Beast, Batman Begins, Notting Hill and The Running Man, alongside Emmy-winning natural-history landmarks such as Our Planet and A Life on Our Planet, the latter earning him an Emmy nomination as music editor. On the Annie-nominated animated musical Over the Moon he mixed both score and songs.

His theatre-recording pedigree is at the heart of what he brings to this venture. Over more than a decade Gareth produced and engineered a landmark series of soundtrack albums for the Royal Shakespeare Company: over thirty albums documenting the complete cycle of Shakespeare's plays, recorded at his Stratford-upon-Avon studio and released on the RSC's own label. The project brought together composers including Dame Evelyn Glennie, Laura Mvula, Paul Englishby, Nigel Hess, Will Gregory and Isobel Waller-Bridge, songs written and performed by Laura Marling, and leading actors from David Tennant to Simon Russell Beale. Beyond the Shakespeare cycle he recorded RSC albums including Wolf Hall, Miss Littlewood and The Magician's Elephant.

As a composer, Gareth scored the film Madron / The Visor, which received a BAFTA Cymru Artistic Achievement Commendation, has co-composed with Phil Collins, written for video games, hundreds of episodes of TV, composed for films and short films, and released eight albums of production music. His studio in Stratford-upon-Avon is now a fully operational Dolby Atmos 7.1.4 room.

https://www.garethcousins.co.uk/ 

Music Supervisor & Producer

Bruce O’Neil is an award winning music supervisor with over thirty years experience in theatre, recording and live music. He first joined the Royal Shakespeare Company as a Music Director in 2002 and was Head of Music between 2013 - 2026. He has been Musical Director & Music Supervisor for over 50 RSC productions, and was musical director for the original production, cast album recording and west end opening of the RSC's global hit Matilda, which won 7 Olivier Awards. 

He was music supervisor for the Robbie Williams musical The Boy in the Dress, and co-produced the cast album. He was Arranger, Conductor and PIanist for Shakespeare Live!, a BBC TV live broadcast from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, in collaboration with Orchestra of the Swan, marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016, which was nominated for a BAFTA Television award. 

His collaboration with Orchestra of the Swan also includes conducting their Signum Classics release, Timelapse and a Somm Recordings release of music by William Walton, including his score for Laurence Olivier's film of Henry V and Façade. Other recordings as conductor include the 'Transclassical' concertos by Pedro H Da Silva & Lucia Caruso with Academy of St Martin in the Fields, recorded at Abbey Road.

His eclectic career has encompassed a varied path, as Keyboardist with The Red Lemon Electric Blues Band, who recorded sessions for Radio 2, appeared at the Cork International Jazz Festival, and were support act for the Chuck Berry UK tour; as an Opera Repetiteur, theatre composer, orchestral pianist with the C.B.S.O, and he has performed cabaret at the Edinburgh Festival, Pizza on the Park in London, Don't Tell Mama's in New York, and at the Proms.

He was Music Supervisor of the RSC’s Music & Speech recordings, comprising 35 albums of music commissioned by the RSC for every Shakespeare play, including scores composed for productions of the complete canon between 2013 – 2022, as well as music held at Shakespeare Birthplace Trust archive composed for previous productions of Shakespeare’s plays performed in Stratford throughout the 20th Century.

https://www.bruceoneil.com/