David Gale

Biography

Dave Gale is an EMMY award-winning media composer, arranger and producer. He has scored and produced music for hundreds of hours of television, for all of the major TV channels and networks, both in the UK and abroad.  

Known predominantly for his scoring of factual and documentary television, he won an EMMY for his work on the BBC Television multi-season series, Days that Shook the World. He also scored the EMMY-winning and BAFTA-nominated series, Simon Schama’s Power of Art along with many other BAFTA and Grierson award-winning and nominated films. His credits are substantial, extending from TV, to feature film, video games and numerous production music/library albums. 

He studied at Guildhall School as a trombone player in the late 80s, and was one of two students who encouraged the school to embrace electronic music composition and production, leading to the ultimate funding and inauguration of the Guildhall’s very first electronic music studio.  

Away from media work, Dave composed the successful and applauded Jazz FX books; a series of jazz-influenced, easy to intermediate instrumental studies, for wind and brass instruments, which are currently included as part of the ABRSM and Trinity Guildhall examination syllabuses. 

He is also a regular contributor to a number of music technology publications, which include industry-leading magazine, Sound on Sound.  He combines this with his slightly unhealthy passion/obsession for synthesisers, as well as using electronic instruments wherever possible in his scoring.