Philip Sheppard is a composer, producer, virtuoso cellist, professor at the Royal Academy of Music and a creative innovator who has worked with some of the biggest names in music, tech, sport and film.

Philip has composed more than 60 film, gaming, television and theatrical scores including Sony PS4’s highly acclaimed video game, DETROIT: Become Human, and the Star Wars Force Awakens behind the scenes Comic Con trailer which has over 11 million YouTube plays. Philip’s major film works include Mercury 13 (a Netflix original which premiered at the SFFilm Festival), The Final Year (which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival), In the Shadow of the Moon (which received an International Film Critics Award nomination for Best Original Score for a Documentary and won numerous awards including the Audience Award for World Cinema Documentary at Sundance), Meru (which won numerous awards including the Audience Award for Documentary at Sundance), Sergio (which was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy),  Bobby Fischer Against the World (which was nominated for a Prime Time Emmy), and  The Tillman Story (which received a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Programming – Long Form). Philip was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a member of the Music Class of 2017.

Philip’s first solo album, Somewhere Along the Edge, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in September 2016 and was his first studio album away from specific movie soundtracks for some time. Each track is dedicated to someone who lives fully at the edge of life -whether explorers, artists, travelers or thinkers. Philip’s latest album, Fall From Earth, is his second solo orchestral album and was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in July 2017.

Philip was honored with BBC’s Music Production of the Year for The Manchester Passion and was named as one of Origin Magazine’s “Top 100 Creatives in the U.S.” He is also the recipient of an RAM Fellowship, a lifetime achievement award from the Royal Academy of Music for his services to music and education.