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LEWIS, Paul

Born in 1943 in Brighton, England

Composer Website

  • Lewis was inspired to enter the world of TV music when he saw Lawrence Olivier’s films with music by William Walton when he was 12.
  • Lewis chose to avoid professional music training, instead opting to leave school at 15 to work in music publishing.
  • Lewis wrote his first TV score at age 19 and has been working busily for British TV ever since.
  • Fun fact: among other shows, Lewis’s production library music can be heard on Antiques Roadshow and SpongeBob SquarePants.1

Sources

  1. “Biography,” Paul Lewis Composer, accessed November 7, 2019, https://www.paullewiscomposer.com/index/biography.html.