Neil Brand has been accompanying silent films for over 17 years, regularly at the NFT on London's south bank and throughout the UK and increasingly at film festivals and special events throughout the world, including Australia, New Zealand (twice), America, Israel, Sweden, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Pordenone, Bologna and Bergamo festivals in Italy.

Training originally as an actor, he has made his name as a writer/performer/composer, scoring BFI video releases of such films as South (Shackleton's Journey to the South Pole), The Ring by Alfred Hitchcock (also touring live with a swing band), the great lost film The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (for which he performed the world premiere in 1996 and subsequently recorded his acclaimed score) and Early Cinema, avant-garde cinema and Russian pre-Soviet cinema.

He has written many scores for TV documentaries including The Real Stephen Hawking, The Crimean War, In The Wild, Pandas with Debra Winger, Great Railway Journeys and Comic Relief: Balls to Africa and scores for over 40 Radio 4 dramas including War and Peace, the Box of Delights and Sony award winner A Town Like Alice. He has toured internationally with his acclaimed one man show Through the Sound Barrier - his book, Dramatic Notes (published by Arts Council Publications/University of Luton Press) is an introduction for the layman to the world of scoring music to drama with a series of interviews with distinguished practitioners.

He also co-devised the Backtracks CD-ROM for Channel 4/BFI. He writes music for theatre, has written two award-winning musicals and four radio plays, twice presented the Radio 2 arts programme, is a visiting professor of the Royal College of Music and is considered one of the finest exponents of improvised silent film accompaniment in the world.

For more information please visit Neil's Website