Person · English score composer
Rachel Portman
Albums
84
Members
0
Active
1960–present
Origin
United Kingdom
Biography
The first female composer to ever win an Oscar, native Brit Rachel Portman studied Music at Oxford University, having begun composing at the age of thirteen. Her credits include the scores for ‘Emma’, ‘Chocolat’, ‘Oliver Twist’, ‘The Cider House Rules’, ‘The Duchess’, and most recently ‘Never Let Me Go’. She writes lush, sweeping scores which favour the use of the traditional orchestra and are often piano-led, this being the instrument on which she prefers to compose.
Discography
Piano Moods / Piano Atmospheres
Where Angels Fear To Tread - Original Soundtrack
Used People
Used People (Original Score)
Where the Angels Fear to Tread
Benny & Joon
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Sirens
Sirens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Road to Wellville
The Road To Wellville - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
War of the Buttons
War Of The Buttons (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
A Pyromaniac’s Love Story
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Emma: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture
Emma - Music From The Miramax Motion Picture
Original Soundtracks: Life Is Sweet / Palookaville / Elizabeth R
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Addicted to Love
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Beloved
The Cider House Rules
The Cider House Rules (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture)
The Closer You Get
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Chocolat: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture
Sound Tracks
Hart's War (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Hart's War (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Nicholas Nickleby (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Mona Lisa Smile
Nicholas Nickleby (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Human Stain
The Human Stain (Original Score)
The Emperor’s New Clothes
The Little Prince
The Little Prince - A Magical Opera
The Manchurian Candidate (Music From the Motion Picture)
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Infamous
Infamous (Music From The Motion Picture)
The Lake House
The Duchess
The Duchess (Music From The Motion Picture)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (Original Motion Picture Score)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (Original Motion Picture Score)
Grey Gardens
Grey Gardens (Music From The HBO Film)
Never Let Me Go (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
One Day: Original Score
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Bel Ami
Private Peaceful: Music From the Original Motion Picture
The Vow: Original Motion Picture Score
Girl Rising
Paradise
Belle
Credits
Race: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Belle
Never Let Me Go (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Miss Potter
The Manchurian Candidate (Music From the Motion Picture)
Chocolat: Music From the Miramax Motion Picture
The Legend of Bagger Vance
Beloved
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Marvin's Room
Smoke
Only You: Music from the Motion Picture
Benny & Joon
A Pyromaniac's Love Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Beyond The Screen / Film Works On Piano
Despite The Falling Snow (Original Motion Picture Score)
Emma - Music From The Miramax Motion Picture
Grey Gardens (Music From The HBO Film)
Hart's War (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Infamous (Music From The Motion Picture)
Nicholas Nickleby (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Oliver Twist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Sirens (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Still Life (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Cider House Rules (Music From The Miramax Motion Picture)
The Duchess (Music From The Motion Picture)
The Human Stain (Original Score)
The Joy Luck Club (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
The Little Prince - A Magical Opera
The Music Of John Williams - The Definitive Collection
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (Original Motion Picture Score)
Used People (Original Score)
War Of The Buttons (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Where Angels Fear To Tread - Original Soundtrack