Philip Sheppard (musician)

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Philip Sheppard
Sheppard at the 2008 Olympic Games
Background information
Born	(1969-11-04) 4 November 1969 (age 51)
Genres	Classical, film, television and video game scores and soundtracks
Occupation(s)	Cellist, film, television, and video game score composer
Instruments	Cello, electric cello, conductor
Labels	Radiomovies Limited
Associated acts	Unkle, Juliette Binoche, Akram Khan, Odesza, Pretty Lights
Website	https://www.philipsheppard.com

Philip Sheppard (born 4 November 1969) is an English musician. He has composed more than 60 film, television and theatrical scores including Detroit: Become Human and the Star Wars: The Force Awakens behind the scenes Comic Con trailer.^{[citation needed]} Sheppard was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a member of the Music Class of 2017.^[1] Sheppard has recorded arrangements of all the world's 205 national anthems for the 2012 Olympics.^[2]

Early life[]

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Sheppard trained in cello and composition at the Royal Academy of Music, during which time he specialised in contemporary music. He worked closely with Hans Werner Henze, Sir Michael Tippett and Luciano Berio during this time as a founding member of the Kreutzer String Quartet. Whilst a student, Sheppard made weekly appearances at the Spitz nightclub, playing entirely improvised concerts, sometimes featuring his Piano Quintet  – formed with Keith Tippett. He collaborated with pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, who encouraged him to move away from a conventional musical environment, and pursue his composition. He went on to pioneer electro-acoustic improvisation joining the Smith Quartet and appearing regularly with the London Sinfonietta. After completing a fellowship, he was made a professor at the Royal Academy of Music where he is now a senior lecturer.

Career[]

Film soundtracks[]

Sheppard's first orchestral soundtrack was commissioned in 2007 for the documentary feature, In the Shadow of the Moon, which won major awards at the Boulder, Florida, Indianapolis and Sedona film festivals, as well as the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The soundtrack was released on the Lakeshore records imprint.

In 2008 with members of UNKLE he arranged and performed solo cello on the remix of The X-Files theme music for the end titles of 'X-Files I Want to Believe'. Also, in 2008, Sheppard composed the music for the South Korean film, Dream.^[3]

His next major commission was the soundtrack for 'Sergio' directed by Greg Barker which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

In 2010, Sheppard composed the score for the documentary film, The Tillman Story, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary.

In 2011, Sheppard composed the soundtrack for two documentaries that premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival: directed by British filmmaker David Sington, which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema - Documentary and Bobby Fischer Against the World, directed by Liz Garbus. Also, in 2011, his album Cloud Songs was used for the film First Orbit, a real-time recreation of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering first orbit, shot entirely in space from on board the International Space Station and combined with Yuri Gagarin's original voice recordings to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the flight of Vostok 1.

In 2012, Sheppard composed the music for the short film The Long Journey Home,^[4] and also worked again with film-maker Liz Garbus on the documentary film Love, Marilyn, starring Elizabeth Banks, Adrien Brody, Glen Close, Uma Thurman and Viola Davis.

In 2013, Sheppard once again collaborated with director Greg Barker and producer John Battsek to compose the score for the Emmy winning documentary , which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary.

In 2014, Sheppard composed the score for three documentary films, We Are the Giant, 1971, and . Sheppard's collaborations with director Greg Barker and producer John Battsek continued with , a documentary film about the Arab Spring and which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. 1971, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on 18 April 2014 and was nominated for the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In 2015, Sheppard collaborated with professional climber, mountaineer, skier, director and photographer, Jimmy Chin and professional climber, mountaineer and author Conrad Anker, on the award-winning documentary adventure film, Meru. Twelve of the tracks from the film's soundtrack were composed by Sheppard. Meru premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Award for Documentary and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. In 2015, Sheppard also composed the original score for the documentaries Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science,^[5] and The Fear of 13 directed by David Sington and which was nominated for the Grierson Award for Documentary Film at the 2015 London Film Festival.

In 2016, Sheppard created the original score for three documentary films: Keep Quiet, which was nominated for the Knight Documentary Achievement Award at the 2012 Miami Film Festival, and The University. Keep Quiet, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival where it was nominated for the Jury Award for Best Documentary Feature. and The University, was awarded Best Documentary Film at the 2016 L.A. Raw Science Film Festival.

In 2017, Sheppard teamed up again with director Greg Barker and producer John Battsek to release, The Final Year,^[6] which premiered at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival, and Legion of Brothers,^[7] which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Sheppard also composed the original score for Chosen Chosen, starring Harvey Keitel. In 2018, Sheppard collaborated again with director David Sington, who he worked with on In the Shadow of the Moon, on the Netflix original documentary, Mercury 13,^[8] which premiered at the 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival.

Television scores[]

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In 2008, Sheppard Philip composed the music for the 4 part TV series documentary, Moon Machines: The Lunar Module, The Navigation Computer, The Command Module and The Saturn V Rocket. In 2009, Sheppard also wrote a set of pieces for Viol Consort that formed the soundtrack for Dr. David Starkey's series on Henry VIII. It also featured Scottish singer Dot Allison. Also in 2009, Sheppard composed the music for the TV movie, Juliette Binoche: Sketches for a Portrait. In 2010, Sheppard composed the music for and was the music producer for three episodes of the PBS TV series, God In America: Composer: Soul of a Nation/Of God and Caesar, A Nation Reborn/A New Light, A New Adam/A New Eden. Sheppard also composed the music for the National Geographic TV documentary , and the BBC TV documentary, which marked the 70th anniversary of Dunkirk. In 2012, Sheppard composed the music for one episode of The Churchills: The Choice. Sheppard also created the soundtrack for the PBS TV documentary Secrets of the Sun:Nova.

In 2013, Sheppard created the soundtrack for The Fantastic Mr. Feynman, a TV documentary on the life and work of Nobel prize-winning physicist, Richard Feynman. In 2014, Sheppard wrote the music for the BBC series Human Universe presented by Brian Cox and for the TV documentary, A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY. For the Rugby World Cup in 2015, Sheppard composed the piece, This is Rugby, which was used as the theme music and for the players’ entrance.

Video game and apps[]

Sheppard composed the music for the virtual reality video game, Kitty Nigiri. In 2018, Sheppard composed the score for the character, Kara, in Quantic Dream's video game Detroit: Become Human.^{[citation needed]}

Solo albums and collaborations[]

Sheppard's early solo albums, 'The Glass Cathedral' and 'The Diver in the Crypt', featured new compositions devised for site-specific performances. The tracks feature a specially commissioned electric cello that has become a cornerstone of many of Sheppard's compositions. The albums attracted the attention of Scott Walker, who invited him to play at his Southbank Centre Meltdown Festival. They collaborated again on Pulp's album 'We Love Life' with Jarvis Cocker and after that on Walker's critically acclaimed album 'The Drift'. He has also arranged songs for Jarvis Cocker's solo album 'Jarvis', David Bowie and Suzanne Vega.

Sheppard released Somewhere Along the Edge in September 2016. It was his first studio album away from specific movie soundtracks since The Diver in the Crypt. “Each track is dedicated to someone who lives fully at the edge of life -whether explorers, artists, travelers or thinkers.” Sheppard regularly collaborates with James Lavelle and UNKLE. In 2008, they wrote and produced the album 'End Titles....Stories for Film' (with Gavin Clark, Josh Homme, Chris Goss and Pablo Clements) following the success of the recent album 'War Stories'. In 2017, Sheppard collaborated again with Lavelle on UNKLE's fifth studio album The Road: Part 1.

In 2017, Sheppard collaborated with Odesza on their album, A Moment Apart, which was nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Album and the single “Line of Sight” featuring WYNNE & Mansionair was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards A Moment Apart. Sheppard is featured on the strings for A Moment Apart and Just A Memory. In 2018 Sheppard released his sophomore solo orchestral album, Fall From Earth, on June 22, 2018.^[9]

Live event and stage production[]

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Sheppard has produced the music for two BBC TV live events; The Manchester Passion in 2006 and The Liverpool Nativity in 2007. These have won numerous awards, including the BBC award for Best Music Production of the Year, which was awarded to Sheppard, together with the writer Stephen Powell.

Sheppard has had a long and fruitful professional relationship with Akram Khan. He first joined Akram as an improvising cellist in the Kathak projects 'Third Catalogue' and 'Ronin', collaborating with Hanif Kureishi and the AK Company for 'The God of Small Tales'. In 2006, Sheppard was commissioned to write 'Sacred Monsters' for Akram Khan and Sylvie Guillem. He toured with the production until the summer of 2007, his final performance being at the Herod Atticus theatre in the shadow of the Parthenon. In 2008, Sheppard was commissioned to compose the score for a new Akram Khan collaboration featuring Juliette Binoche. The production, In-I, staged at the National Theatre in London featured design by Anish Kapoor.

Sheppard wrote and produced music for the Olympic Handover Ceremony, at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This marks the point when the Olympic flag passes to London in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics. The sequence begins with the orchestral work 'This is London' performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, and leads to an arrangement of 'Whole Lotta Love' (by Led Zeppelin) performed by Jimmy Page, Leona Lewis and the London Symphony orchestra. This version of the song was co-produced by Steve Robson, Jimmy Page, Sheppard and Leona Lewis.

In 2009, Sheppard performed in 5 performances of the TV series, BBC Proms: Prom 9: Elgar Anniversary, Prom 12: 1934, Prom 38: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Prom 59: Tonhalle Orchestra, Prom 64: Jurowski & London Philharmonic. For the 2012 London Olympics 2012 Summer Olympics, Sheppard conducted, rearranged and edited all 205 national anthems for the winners’ ceremonies. The national anthems were recorded with The London Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios and took 52 recording hours. In 2016, Sheppard, in collaboration with James Lavelle of UNKLE, co-produced Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick Introduction, an audio-visual show set in Somerset House against visuals from Stanley Kubrick's various works. In 2017, Sheppard performed live at Facebook Headquarters. In 2018, Sheppard performed at the HATCH Global Impact Series^[10] with International Human Rights Attorney Kimberley Motley, musician KT Tunstall, spoken word artist Steve Connell, and Paul Durham to raise awareness for the Identity Project.

Innovation[]

In March 2015, Sheppard released the game Compose Yourself through ThinkFun, a game that enables players to build their own symphonic works using a computer algorithm and a deck of cards.^[11][12]

Keynote speaking[]

Sheppard has delivered keynotes on creative innovation, intersection of music and data, the innate musical ability within each person, and other topics that connect music to creativity, tech and introspection in conferences around the globe such as C2MTL,^[13] e.g. conference,^[14] Business Innovation Factory,^[15] and The How To Academy.^[16]

Philanthropy[]

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Sheppard previously served on the Executive Board of HATCH, a 501(c)(3) founded in 2004. Sheppard also speaks and performs at various HATCH events including, the annual Big Sky HATCH Experience and HATCHEdu. In December 2015, Sheppard performed at the Eiffel Tower on the opening night of the , COP21, to start 1 Heart 1 Tree's effort to re-forest conflict and war zones. The performance and virtual reforestation installation were live extensions of the 1 Heart 1 Tree app that focuses on climate change. The music used by the app and during the Eiffel Tower 3D projections are from Sheppard's album, Strange News from Another Star.

In 2015, Sheppard co-founded the HATCH Ostinato Project, whose mission is to empower students to realize that they can compose music by enabling them to experience original, fully realized sounds. The program matches composers and professionals with schools and music classes to allow for collaboration on music creation, resulting in professional music production. Sheppard has contributed his music to several films, such as Josie’s LaLa Land, an animated film about a fourteen year old's battle against leukemia, A Cow Can Change Everything, a short film about the story of families in Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda and the support they received from the Gates Foundation, and A Dangerous Journey, an animated film about the exploitation, abuse and degradation of children in Africa. Sheppard has also contributed his music to such organizations as PeaceLove Storytellers, MyCounterpane, and the BBC Natural History Unit.^{[citation needed]}

Awards, nominations and achievements[]

Year	Nominations	Notes
2007	International Film Music Critics Award	Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film for In the Shadow of the Moon
2017	Grammy Award	Best Dance/Electronic Album for A Moment Apart

Year	Achievements	Notes
2010	Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM)	limited to 300 former Academy students, and awarded to those musicians who have distinguished themselves within the profession
2015	Top 100 Creatives by Origin Magazine	Named one of Top 100 Creatives by Origin Magazine
2017	Inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences	Class of 2017[1]

Discography[]

Solo Albums and Collaborations

Year	Album Name	Notes
1996	Steve Beresford: Cue Sheets II	Cello soloist
1997	Tippet: String Quartet Nos. 3& 5	Cello soloist
	Upon Silence	Collaborator
	Tippet: String Quartet Nos. 1, 2 & 4	Cello soloist
1998	Quotation of Dream	Collaborator
1999	Silencio	Cello soloist
	The Glass Cathedral	Self-released album
2000	Linuckea	Cello soloist
	The Diver in the Crypt	Self-released album
	Hot	Cello soloist
2001	Regeneration	Cello soloist
	We Love Life	Cello soloist
2002	David Bowie Heathen	Sheppard worked on a trans-Atlantic collaboration with David Bowie on the track Everyone Says Hi from Bowie's album, Heathen, which sampled his electric cello. Sheppard played 40 cellos, arranged and recorded the strings for the track.
	Joby Talbot:The Dying Swan	Soloist on the electric cello and cello
2003	Sound of the Underground	Soloist and string arranger
	Never, Never, Land	Cello soloist and electric cello.
2004	Colour The Small One	Collaborator
	Global Underground: Romania #26	Cello Soloist
		Cello soloist and string arranger which is featured in Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason.
2005	HAL	Soloist and Strings arranger
	The Story Goes...	String arranger
2006	O Jerusalem	Soloist on the electric cello
	Poison Sweet Madeira	Cello soloist
	Journey South	String arranger
	The Drift	Orchestrator, conductor, and soloist on the cello
	Undiscovered	String arranger
	Stay Under The Stars	Cello soloist
	For You	String arranger
	Jarvis	Arranger of vocals, choir and strings
	Ali in the Jungle - The Hours	Sheppard was a member of Brit Rock band The Hours and orchestrated many of the band's songs.
2007	In the Shadow of the Moon	Composer
	Narcissus Road	Cello soloist, string arranger, conductor
	And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball?	Cello soloist
	War Stories	Collaborator
	Beauty and Crime	Collaborator
	Rebel Without a Cause / East of Eden	Collaborator
	Run	Soloist
2008	Moon Machines	Composer
	Jack Mcmanus – Bang on the Piano	String arranger
	The Circus	Cello soloist
	X-Files: I Want to Believe	Sheppard together with members of UNKLE, arranged and performed solo cello on the remix of The X-Files theme music for the end titles of the 2008 film ‘’.
	End Titles…Stories for Film	Composer and string arranger
	Unkle End Titles redux	Collaborator
2009	Sergio	Composer
	GU37: Bangkok	Composer
	We Fell To Earth	Electric cello soloist
2010		Composer
	Where Did the Night Fall	Collaborator
2011	Bobby Fischer Against the World	Composer
	Park Bench Theories	Cello soloist
		Arranger
2012	Express Tracks	Composer
	Love, Marilyn	Composer
2013	...Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age	Collaborator
	These New Puritans Field of Reeds	Composer
	A Color Map of the Sun	Orchestrator and string arranger (cello, electric cello, strings, viola de gamba and violin)
2015	Strange News From Another Star	Self- Released EP
	The Blue Notebooks	Cello soloist
	Rugby World Cup	Composer
	Naples #G4U1	Composer, cello soloist, and string arranger
2016	Keep Quiet	Composer
	Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick	Collaborator and co-producer
	Retrospective	Cello soloist
	Somewhere Along The Edge	Self-released album
	Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan	Composer
2017	Legion of Brothers	Composer
	Max Richter : On the Nature of Daylight	Cello soloist in Max Richter's track, On the Nature of Daylight, which is featured in both the opening and closing sequences of the sci-fi film, Arrival
	Chosen	Composer
	Unkle The Road	Composer, cello soloist
2018	Fall From Earth	Self-released album

Filmography[]

Film and television[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Stealing Rembrandt	Musician (electric & acoustic cello)
2004	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason	Soloist & Arranger	“Stop” by Jamelia
2005	Mørke	Conductor	2006 Robert Festival: Nominated for Best Original Score
2006	Manchester Passion	Producer, Arranger & Musical Director	BBC Music Production of the Year Award 2006
2007	In the Shadow of the Moon	Composer	2007 International Film Music Critics Award: Nominated Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Film
	Taxi to the Dark Side	Musician (electric & acoustic cello)
	Scott Walker: 30 Century Man	Himself, Musician
	BMW See How It Feels	Orchestrator	The commercial was soundtracked by a modern re-working of Beethoven's 9th Symphony produced by UNKLE and orchestrated by Sheppard.
	Imagine	Himself
	Classic Britannia	Himself	3 episodes: Adapt or Die, Modernism & Minimalism and The Landscape of Changes.
	Liverpool Nativity	Musical Director
2008	Josie's LaLa Land	Composer
	The X Files: I Want to Believe	Musician & Arranger	Sheppard together with members of UNKLE, arranged and performed solo cello on the remix of The X-Files theme music for the end titles of the 2008 film ‘X-Files I Want to Believe’.
	Moon Machines	Composer
		Composer
2009	Sergio	Composer	2009 Sundance Film Festival: Nominated for a Grand Jury Prize for Documentary 2009 Heartland Film Festival: Documentary Feature
	Pssst Pass It On!: Legends of Exos	Composer	Section 3
	Xtrems	Composer	2010 Gaudi Awards: Nominated Best Film in Catalan Language Nominated for Best Original Score
	Lucky	Composer
	Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant	Composer
	BBC Proms	Musician	5 episodes: Prom 9: Elgar Anniversary, Prom 12: 1934, Prom 38: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Prom 59: Tonhalle Orchestra, Prom 64: Jurowski & London Philharmonic
	P.O.V.	Composer	1 episode: The Principal Story.
	Juliette Binoche: Sketches for a Portrait	Composer
2010	The Tillman Story	Composer
	The Planets: An HD Odyssey	Composer
	Lives of The Artists: Follow Me Down	Composer	Sheppard and UNKLE score a short movie for energy drink company, Relentless.
	Inside the Milky Way	Composer
	God In America	Composer	3 episodes:God In America: Composer: Soul of a Nation/Of God and Caesar, A Nation Reborn/A New Light, A New Adam/A New Eden.
	A Cow Can Change Everything	Composer
	Little Ships	Composer
2011	The Flaw	Composer
	Bobby Fischer Against the World	Composer
	Chess History	Composer
	The Fight for Fischer's Estate	Composer
	First Orbit	Composer
	The Denali Experiment	Composer	Sheppard's song Night Vision is used in the film.
	Koran by Heart	Composer
2012	The Long Journey Home	Composer
	The Churchills (TV series)	Composer	1 episode: The Choice.
	London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony: Isles of Wonder	Composer
	London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony: A Symphony of British Music	Composer	Sheppard composed music for the 2012 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony. Sheppard conducted, rearranged and edited all 206 national anthems for the winners’ ceremonies for the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The national anthems were recorded with The London Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road Studios. The recording process took a total of 52 recording hours. The anthems produced by Sheppard are to be used for the next 25 years of International Olympic Committee events.
	Secrets of the Sun: Nova	Composer
	A Dangerous Journey	Composer
	Love, Marilyn	Composer
	Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God	Musician
2013		Composer
	The Fantastic Mr. Feynman	Composer
	Redemption	Musician
	30 for 30	Composer	Sheppard wrote and performed the songs “Adrenaline Rusher”, “The Squall”, “Trepidation”, “Breaking Horizon” on the soundtrack for the episode, Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau, on the ESPN's series documentary, 30 for 30.
2014		Composer
	1971	Composer
	The Human Face of Big Data	Composer
	UFC EA SPORTS Gameplay Series	Composer	Sheppard composed the score for the reveal of the Bruce Lee character.
	A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY	Composer
	BBC Human Universe	Composer
2015	Meru	Composer
	Independent Lens	Composer	1 episode: 1971.
	Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science	Composer
	The Fear of 13	Composer
	Rugby World Cup	Composer	Sheppard composed the piece, This is Rugby, which was used for the players’ entrance and theme music.
	Exhibition Munch:Van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum	Composer	Sheppard composed the music for the animation/live action promo for the Van Gogh Museum's Exhibition Munch : Van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum.
2016	Keep Quiet (2016 film)	Composer
	Casey's Wild Backyard	Composer
	Dancer	Composer
	The University	Composer
	Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan	Composer
2017	Legion of Brothers	Composer
	Chosen (2016 film)	Composer
	The Final Year	Composer
2018	Mercury 13	Composer
	The Seagull	Composer	Sheppard's song American Dream is used in the film's official trailer.

Live event production[]

Year	Event	Notes
1995	Meltdown Festival- Jeff Buckley	Performed with Jeff Buckley at the Meltdown Festival.
1999	BBC World Service Millennium Concert	Performed as the cello soloist at the BBC World Service Millennium Concert in Bethlehem.
2000	Meltdown Festival - Scott Walker Meltdown (festival)	Performed with Scott Walker at the Meltdown Festival.
2002	Meltdown Festival - David Bowie Meltdown (festival)	Performed with David Bowie at the Meltdown Festival.
2003	The Elephant Vanishes	Sheppard's work for multitracked cellos, Rain Steam and Speed, was featured in Theatre de Complicite's The Elephant Vanishes – based on short stories by Haruki Murakami.
2004	Glastonbury Festival	Performed live at the Glastonbury Festival with the band Hal, supporting Kasabian.
2006	Manchester Passion	Sheppard was the producer, musical arranger and musical director.
	Sacred Monsters	Philip composed and produced the music for the dance performance Sacred Monsters, starring Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan and performed at the Sadler's Wells Theatre.
	Alexander McQueen - Sarabande	Sheppard composed and produced a version of Handel's Sarabande in Black for Alexander McQueen's Spring/Summer 2007 Paris Fashion Week show.
2008	In - I	Composed Score
	2008 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Paralympics	Sheppard was the music director for the Handover Ceremonies from Beijing to London.
	Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker	Featuring Damon Albarn, Dot Allison, Jarvis Cocker, Philip Sheppard, Gavin Friday, Michael Henry, Owen Gilhooly & Nigel Richards.
2012	Many	Sheppard composed and produced the score for the dance performance, Many, choreographed by Thomas Noone at Ballet de L’Opera du Rhin.
	E.g. 6 Conference	Sheppard plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" on his Georgian cello.
	2012 London Summer Olympics[17]	Sheppard conducted, rearranged and edited all 205 national anthems for the winners’ ceremonies for the 2012 London Summer Olympics. The national anthems were recorded with The London Philharmonic Orchestra at the legendary Abbey Road Studios. The epic challenge took 52 recording hours. The anthems produced by Philip are to be used for the next 25 years of International Olympic Committee events.
	A Room for London: Jarvis Cocker's Sounds from A Room	Sheppard performed his electric cello with Pulp frontman and DJ, Jarvis Cocker, during a broadcast of his Sunday Service radio show for BBC 6Music.
2013	HATCH Conference	Sheppard introduced his original composition, Woodwork, recalling his childhood experience in wood shop class.
	The Downtown Dubai New Year's Eve Gala	Sheppard wrote and composed the music for The Downtown Dubai New Year's Eve Gala, which featured an unparalleled display of colorful fireworks from the iconic Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. This the first time the New Year's Eve Gala fireworks display was set to music.
2014	2014 Sochi Winter Olympics	The national anthems produced by Philip for the 2012 London Summer Olympics were also used for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympicss.
	C2 Montreal	Sheppard performed Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah at C2 Montreal using an 18th Century Cello and a Boss Loop Pedal.
	Meltdown Festival - James Lavelle Meltdown (festival)	Performed with James Lavelle at the Meltdown Festival.
	Le Tour de France	Sheppard led the orchestra and chorus of Opera North at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Tour de France.
2015	One Drop in Vegas[18]	Sheppard performed with Cirque Du Soleil in Las Vegas for a special one-off show as a featured musician along with John Legend.
	Paris Climate Change Summit: 1 Heart 1 Tree	Sheppard performed at the Eiffel Tower on the opening night of the Paris Climate Change Summit.
	Rugby World Cup	Composed theme music.
2016	Odesza: In Return	Collaborated with Odesza on their show, In Return, at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO.
	Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick	Sheppard, in collaboration with James Lavelle of UNKLE, co-produced Daydreaming With Stanley Kubrick.
	Unkle: REDUX at Somerset House	Featured on Unkle: REDUX at Somerset House.
	2016 Rio Summer Olympics	The national anthems produced by Philip for the 2012 London Summer Olympics were also used for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.
	Pretty Lights	Sheppard collaborated with Pretty Light's on their two-day Episodic Festival at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, CO.
2017	Facebook HQ	Sheppard performed an impromptu live streamed concert at Facebook HQ performing Kashmir, Hallelujah, and Amazing Grace.
2018	2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic	The national anthems produced by Philip for the 2012 London Summer Olympics were also used for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
	HATCH Global Impact Series	Sheppard produced the inaugural HATCH Global Impact Series at the Rialto in Bozeman, Montana and performed with international human rights attorney Kimberley Motley, Grammy-nominated musician KT Tunstall, Paul Durham, and spoken word artist Steve Connell to raise awareness for Kimberley Motley's The Identity Project.[19]]

Keynotes[]

Year	Event	Topic	Notes
2009	Angel Recording Studios - Royal Academy of London	Entrepreneurship and Transformation	Welcome to Your Nightmare Recording Session
2010	National Gallery London	Philosophy, History and Art	The Architecture of the Imagination – Secret Rooms and Hidden Codes
2011	Dataversity Texas	Creativity and Big Data	An Information Symphony
	TTI/Vanguard Paris	Creativity and Big Data	An Information Symphony
2012	E.g. 6 Conference	Living and Working on the Edge	Sheppard plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" on his Georgian cello. Global change
	La Ciudad des Ideas	Designing Creativity	The Magic of If
2013	E.g. 7 Conference	Entrepreneurship and Transformation	You Really Shouldn't Do That With a Cello
	HATCH	Living and Working on the Edge	HATCH Big Sky Experience 2013
	ThinkFun	Designing Creativity	Serious Play
	ChiTag Chicago Toy and Game Fair	Designing Creativity	Serious Play
2014	Gathering 4 Gardner Atlanta	Philosophy, History and Art / Spontaneous Invention	Jimi Hendrix was Pythagoras’ Fault and Summary Keynote
	PlayCon Texas	Designing Creativity	Gamification and Creativity
	Enterprise Data & BI Conference	Creativity and Big Data	Phrasing Data
	E.g. 8 Conference	Living and Working on the Edge	Philip performs live and recalls playing with Jeff Buckley.
	C2 Spark Milan	Designing Creativity	Art from Thin Air
	C2 Montreal	Designing Creativity	Music From the Cloud
	HATCH	Spontaneous Invention	HATCH Big Sky Experience 2014
	HATCHedu Montana State University - School of Architecture and Design	Entrepreneurship and Transformation	What They Won't Teach You Here
	C2 Spark Copenhagen	Philosophy, History and Art / Designing Creativity	Advancing Creativity by Playing with the Past
2015	Computer History Museum	Designing Creativity	The Revolutionaries Series – Philip Sheppard
	Sid Lee Presents NYC	Designing Creativity	Creativity and You
	C2 Montreal	Spontaneous Invention	All About the Baldwin, Summary Keynote
	Google HQ	Designing Creativity	Emcee’d and structured a communication project around compositional thinking, a development of design thinking.
	TED HQ	Philosophy, History and Art	Serious Play
	HATCH	Designing Creativity	HATCH Big Sky Experience 2015
	Deloitte Silicon Valley	Spontaneous Invention	Your Best Idea is Already in This Room
	Facebook HQ	Designing Creativity	Make It From Thin Air
	Apple NYC	Spontaneous Invention	Music and the Mac
	Hasbro	Designing Creativity	Creativity Lab
2016	EY San Francisco	Spontaneous Invention	Hyperloop
	KYU Collective	Designing Creativity	Renaissance Perspective
	Allsteel San Francisco	Designing Creativity	Design Salon
	HATCH	Designing Creativity / Entrepreneurship and Transformation	HATCH Big Sky Experience 2016
	C2 Montreal	Creativity and Big Data	Data as Paint
	PeaceLove Storytellers	Designing Creativity	The Unwritten Page
	Montreal Grand Prix	Philosophy, History and Art	McClaren Symphony
	IDEO San Francisco	Designing Creativity	Compositional Thinking
	HATCHedu Montana State University - Music Department	Entrepreneurship and Transformation	Your Career Starts Today
	EY Berlin	Spontaneous Invention	Summary Keynote
	Missoula Sound Machine[20]	Entrepreneurship and Transformation	Make a List Today!
2017	HATCHedu Montana State University - Launchcats	Entrepreneurship and Transformation	Social Entrepreneurship
	WHD.Global[21]	Creativity and Big Data	Intersection of Music & Data: The Innate Musical Ability Within Us All
	EY San Francisco	Spontaneous Invention	Summary Keynote
	E.g. 11 Conference[22]	Spontaneous Invention	It's Just as Easy to be Nice as to be an Asshole
	Kering Imagine Americas	Spontaneous Invention	Emcee
	PeaceLove Storytellers	Spontaneous Invention	Summary Keynote Performance
	C2 Montreal	Entrepreneurship and Transformation	No Such Thing as a Bad Idea
	How To Change The World	Summary Keynote
	Business Innovation Factory[23]	Entrepreneurship and Transformation	Philip delivered two keynotes at BIF2017 Storytellers.
2018	Techtalk	Philosophy, History, and Art	Podcast
	Business Innovation Factory: Business Model Sandbox[24]	Living and Working on the Edge	Podcast
	PeaceLove Storytellers	Spontaneous Invention	Summary Keynote
	EG12 Conference[25]	Living and Working on the Edge	The Marvin Minsky Tapes
	Disrupt Yourself Podcast[26]	Work, Imposter Syndrome, Failure, Creating a Goosebump Economy	Podcast Interview
	American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)[27]		Summary Keynote

Video games[]

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2015	Paris Climate Change Summit: 1 Heart 1 Tree	Musician	Sheppard performed at the Eiffel Tower on the opening night of the Paris Climate Change Summit, COP21, to help kick off 1 Heart 1 Tree's effort to re-forest conflict and war zones. The performance and virtual reforestation installation were live extensions of the 1 Heart 1 Tree app that focuses on climate change efforts.
2015	DETROIT: Become Human Teaser	Composer	Sheppard's track Windstorm was used in the teaser for DETROIT: Become Human.
2017	Kitty Nigiri	Composer
2018	Detroit: Become Human[28]	Composer	Sheppard composed the soundtrack for the character, Kara.

Inventions[]

Year	Project	Notes
2015	Compose Yourself	Children's music game[11][12]

Bibliography[]

Sheppard, Philip. 2008. Music Makes Your Child Smarter: How Music Helps Every Child's Development. (ISBN 0825673313 ISBN 978-0825673313). Schirmer Trade Books.

References[]

External links[]

• Philip Sheppard website