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Christopher Gunning (5 August 1944 – 25 March 2023) was an English composer of concert works and music for films and television.
Feb 28, 2020 · Christopher Gunning is famously known for his work in film and TV, most notably the iconic signature theme for Agatha Christie’s Poirot and evocative music for Olivier Dahan’s La Vie En Rose.
Christopher Gunning is a prolific British composer with a passion for writing large-scale symphonic works, more intimate concert pieces, and film and TV scores.
After the extremely strenuous circumstances around the composition of his Third Symphony, it is happy to report that he looks in good health and is in good spirits, perhaps ready to add further to his symphonic canon.
Christopher Gunning is known well to musician friends of mine and, like them, I’ve long admired his music for film and television. But my main reason for wanting to interview him was the emergence of his concert works from what I suspect he still feels is the shadow of his music for the screen.
Christopher Gunning won four BAFTAs, three for Original Television Music for Porterhouse Blue (1987), Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2004) and Middlemarch (1994), adding another for the film La Vie En Rose (2007).
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Christopher Gunning was one of the UK’s most versatile composers and wrote extensively for film, TV, commercials, and the concert hall. His long career took in arrangements for pop stars, famous commercial campaigns for Martini and Black Magic (among many others), TV credits including Middlemarch, Rebecca and Porterhouse Blue, movies ...
