Paul Mounsey | |
Background: | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
Birth Date: | 15 April 1959 |
Birth Place: | Scotland |
Genre: | Celtic fusion, film scores, Brazilian music |
Occupation: | Musician, composer, arranger, record producer |
Years Active: | 1985–present |
Paul Mounsey (born 15 April 1959) is a Scottish musician, composer, arranger and record producer.
A graduate of Trinity College, London, where he studied with Richard Arnell, Mounsey has composed for film, television, theatre, and television commercials, as well as the concert hall and the Latin American pop market. He has written pop hits for Mexican boy bands, received commissions for concert and multimedia works, lived with and recorded the music of indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest, and to date released five solo albums. He is currently based in Los Angeles, California, United States, working as composer, orchestrator and programmer in the film industry.
Mounsey's fifth album, Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad (The Days Flash Past), was commissioned to celebrate the opening, in September 2005, of the An Lanntair Arts Centre in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland.