- Laurence Aston is manager and business affairs adviser to the Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer Jennifer Warnes. He also manages several leading composers, including Adrian Sutton, creator of the music for the National Theatre productions of 'War Horse' and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'. From 1997 to 2017 he was manager and business affairs adviser to the distinguished Polish film composer Zbigniew Preisner, best known for his scores for the films of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
Alongside his composer management business, Aston is the owner/director of First Name Music (in collaboration with Novello & Co), a boutique music publishing company for screen composers, including the celebrated Japanese film composer Shigeru Umebayashi. Aston is also a Director of Asian Music Publishing, a music publishing and copyright administration company specialising in the work of British Asian and Indian sub-continent composers and producers.
Since 1990 Aston has been active as a film and TV music consultant. Under a four-year contract with BBC TV documentaries department (1993 - 1997) Aston was Series Music Adviser to the major 26-part BBC TV history of the twentieth century, 'People's Century', transmitted on BBC1 and BBC2. He commissioned and supervised all the theme and incidental music and researched the archive music in each episode. Other TV music work includes the 24-part documentary series 'Cold War' produced by Jeremy Isaacs Productions for Turner/BBC2; and the ground-breaking four-part series 'China Inside' made by ITV for BBC2.
Aston has considerable professional experience in contract negotiation, intellectual property issues and product marketing. He has an extensive knowledge of a wide range of contemporary, classical, screen, folk, ethnic, jazz and popular music; of record marketing and distribution; and of the European performing arts scene.
Aston is a Visiting Professor at the Royal College of Music, London, where he gives an annual series of music business seminars to post-graduates in screen composition.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Laurence Aston
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