Introducing the Team
Paul Bateman - Arranger and Conductor on Dare to Dream
Paul started his conducting career with the West End shows Singin’ In The Rain, Barnum, Charlie Girl, Ziegfeld, The Phantom of the Opera and Carmen Jones. He has since recorded and given concerts with Bryn Terfel, José Carreras, Sumi Jo, Jessye Norman, Barbara Hendricks, Lesley Garrett, Tito Beltran, Jason Howard, Sarah Brightman and Paul McCartney.
For Silva Screen Records he has conducted over 30 albums with the City of Prague Philharmonic. He has also worked regularly on radio and in concert with the BBC Concert Orchestra and in the UK has also conducted the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National and Ulster Orchestras.
Film music recordings conducting the City of Prague Philharmonic:
‘Born on the 4th of July’ – music from the films of Tom Cruise –
Christmas Choral Classics / Crouch End Festival Chorus
Cinema Café – Continental film music
Cinema Century – 3 CD film music compilation
Cinema Choral Classics 2 / Crouch End Festival Chorus
‘Dr. Strangelove’ – Music from the films of Stanley Kubrick
‘Dr. Zhivago’ – The film music of Maurice Jarre
‘Man of Galilee’ – Alfred Newman film music collection
‘The Godfather Trilogy’ – music from all three films. Album nominated for Classical Brit award 2002
‘A History of Hitchcock’ Vol. 1
‘A History of Hitchcock’ Vol. 2
‘Psycho’ – The Essential Alfred Hitchcock album
‘Schindlers’ List’ – The film music of John Williams
‘Shakespeare at the Movies’
‘Space 3 – beyond the final frontier’
‘Swashbucklers of the Silver Screen’ – Korngold / Waxman / Rozsa
‘The Cardinal’– The film music of Jerome Morross
‘The Mission’ – The film music of Ennio Morricone
‘The Valley of Gwangi’ – The film music of Jerome Morross
‘Torn Curtain’ – The film music of Bernard Herrmann
‘True Grit’ – music from the films of John Wayne
Warriors of the Silver Screen
Stefano Civetta - Sound Engineer
Stefano is a sound and mix engineer, composer, orchestrator, and musician whose experience is hard to match. He was a recording engineer at Abbey Road Studios for 6 years, and the Pope’s organist at St Peter’s in the Vatican for 7 years.
He has worked on much of Abbey Road’s output over the past 6 years including Will.I.Am, Skrillex, OneRepublic and Ed Sheeran, Nile Rodger’s recordings with Bruno Mars, The Carpenters, The Beach Boys, Mary J Blige, One Direction, Earth Wind And Fire, Andrea Bocelli, Take That, Royal Blood, PJ Harvey, Alt-J, Harry Styles, Ellie Goulding, Leon Bridges, The Shires, Jack Garratt, Cam and Lion Babe. He worked with Giles Martin on remixing the Beatles classics and is credited on the 50th anniversary reissues of two of his all-time favourite albums, The White Album and Abbey Road.
Stefano has also worked on around 60 blockbusting scores including Solo: A Star Wars Story, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, Our Planet, Avengers: Endgame, Rocketman, The Hobbit, The Martian, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Thor 3, Hacksaw Ridge, Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 and The Mummy.
Andrew Sunnucks - Orchestra Producer
Andrew is a music producer with 30-something years of experience. Andrew has worked on a variety of classical projects including a series of most of the major works in the classical canon (running to about 250 separate recordings), The Great War Symphony with Patrick Hawes and Mythos with Debbie Wiseman and Stephen Fry both of which topped the Classic FM charts for several months.
Andrew, with Audio Network, has produced an estimated 4,000 tracks at Abbey Road Studios. In 2001 Andrew founded Audio Network with Robert Hurst which went on to become the largest independent music group in Europe with offices in every major territory around the world and three times winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
In 2019 Audio Network was sold but Andrew remains active in the company as Chairman, and produces most of their large ensemble orchestral, big band and choral music.
National Symphony Orchestra
The NSO is one of the longest-established and most versatile professional freelance orchestras working in Britain today.
During the challenges of the 2020 COVID pandemic NSO was the first orchestra to return to Air Lyndhurst studios, recording Debbie Wiseman’s score for the film “To Olivia”. NSO featured in two episodes of Netflix’s “The Crown”. The orchestra was chosen to record the scores for Queen Elizabeth II 90th birthday celebrations, performed for Her Majesty’s 95th in 2021 at Windsor Castle.
NSO has toured to Spain with Katherine Jenkins and Alfie Boe and was proud to play at the ceremony marking the handover to the nation of the new DNRC Rehabilitation Centre in Loughborough in the presence of Prince William and the Prime Minister. In March 2019, NSO performed at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In the Autumn of 2019 NSO appeared in a nationwide UK tour with Tasmin Little and Philip Dukes as soloists, conducted by Rimma Sushanskaya. Visits to New York and corporate concerts for Viking Cruises at London’s Cadogan Hall were highlights of the season, as well as working on new television productions for both HBO and Netflix. Performances of Beethoven symphonies and the Emperor Piano Concerto have been released on Chasing the Dragon records in 2019.
In 2018, NSO topped the classical charts for weeks collaborating with presenter Alan Titchmarsh and composer Debbie Wiseman for a project named “The Glorious Garden”. In 2017, NSO again occupied top spot with a recording of new music in Debbie Wiseman’s “Musical Zodiac”. The recent release of the film “Edie” starring Sheila Hancock featured NSO on its soundtrack. NSO returned to Abbey Road Studios in November 2018 with Debbie Wiseman and Stephen Fry, recording a soundtrack to Fry’s book, “Mythos”, another no.1 disc in the classical chart.