RACHAEL PHILIP MUSIC
Photo by Tom Green
RACHAEL PHILIP IS A COMPOSER SPECIALISING IN SCORING FOR SCREEN, BASED IN MANCHESTER, UK.
Her work is rooted in storytelling and a deep sensitivity to human experience, with a focus on translating the emotional complexity and ambiguity into music that feels instinctive and nuanced.
Rachael has an intuitive and experimental approach to music, often working with live instruments and field recordings and using sound design and electro-acoustic techniques to combine classical elements with shimmering textures and electronic and ambient languages. A multi-instrumentalist, she often records and experiments with a range of instruments as part of this process. Her music has been described as 'absorbing and immersive' by Pink Wafer magazine and as a 'potent hit of catharsis'.
Rachael has written for numerous award-winning and award-nominated films and commercials, which have screened at Cannes, San Sebastian, Rotterdam, British Arrows, Neum, and Green Screen and COP26, with broadcast work featuring on Finding Priscila on Disney+, BBC Radio 3 Night Tracks and 'Round Midnight, BBC Sounds Sleeping Forecast, BBC Morning Live, Channel 4 and France 3, TF1, CBC News Canada, NHK World Japan amongst others.
Rachael's film credits include Prangover by Celine Buckens (Showtrial, The ExWife, War Horse) and Strange Days by Alice Seabright (Sex Education, Chloe). Her commercial credits include writing for Hermes Paris fashion brand and Edwards Lifesciences, in addition to charities and trusts including St Martin-In-The-Fields, Roundhouse and Winston's Wish.
She has worked as a music editor on Season 7 of the critically acclaimed Sky Original comedy series, BRASSIC and Richard Brown and Tebogo Malope's Origin: The Story of the Basketball Africa League, now on ESPN. Additionally she has worked as part of the music team for Doctor Who: Series 13, Simon Verhoeven's Milli Vanilli biopic Girl You Know It's True and Mammoth Screens’ Agatha Christie adaption Murder Is Easy for BBC and Britbox, and BBC natural history series Kingdom narrated by Sir David Attenborough.
With a diverse musical background and an interest in a range of styles, Rachael is both classically trained and self-taught, having started out playing cello and going on to learn guitar, bass guitar, piano and clarinet. Rachael is a graduate of the National Film and Television School. She was also selected to be part of BFI Network x BAFTA Crew and BAFTA Connect.
Taking inspiration from nature and the outdoors, Rachael is also a qualified Mountain Leader in the UK and Ireland.
