Music | Jim Sutherland: Composer
Jim Sutherland is a music producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. His twenty-year career has ranged across a vast spectrum of musical genres, as well as a string of major commissions for film, TV and theatre.
In March 2006 Jim received the Creative Scotland award 2006 for artists of distinction and originality and in the past two years he has composed scores for several film and TV projects including the multi award winning feature film ‘Festival’( Best film at the British Comedy awards), and the award-winning Scottish Gaelic short film 'Foighidinn: The Crimson Snowdrop' from which 'Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle' grew.
Jim's soundtrack for 'Seachd' not only features some of the greatest Gaelic musicians and vocalists in the world, but it also blends together a host of ancient and rarely heard Gaelic instruments such as the carnyx, the wire-strung clàrsach and the triple pipes with modern Gaelic instruments such the bagpipes, accordion and fiddle and orchestral strings courtesy of the Scottish Ensemble.
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Jim Sutherland is a music producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer. His twenty-year career has ranged across a vast spectrum of musical genres, as well as a string of major commissions for film, TV and theatre.
In March 2006 Jim received the Creative Scotland award 2006 for artists of distinction and originality and in the past two years he has composed scores for several film and TV projects including the multi award winning feature film ‘Festival’( Best film at the British Comedy awards), and the award-winning Scottish Gaelic short film 'Foighidinn: The Crimson Snowdrop' from which 'Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle' grew.
Jim's soundtrack for 'Seachd' not only features some of the greatest Gaelic musicians and vocalists in the world, but it also blends together a host of ancient and rarely heard Gaelic instruments such as the carnyx, the wire-strung clàrsach and the triple pipes with modern Gaelic instruments such the bagpipes, accordion and fiddle and orchestral strings courtesy of the Scottish Ensemble.
More about ancient Gaelic instruments...