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1 April 2007 — BBC Concert Orchestra
Miguel gave the pre-concert talk for the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall where he discussed the music of Miklós Rózsa with cellist Raphael Wallfisch and violinist Philippe Graffin.
23 March 2007 — Edwardians: The Birth of Now
Miguel has finished composing music for a BBC4 documentary on Baden Powell and the Boy Scout movement. Presented by Ian Hislop it will be screened on Monday 14th May at 21:00 in the ‘Edwardians: The Birth of Now’ season.
23 March 2007 — Broken at East End Film Festival
The film Broken with a score by Miguel received its world premiere at the East End Film Festival.
7 March 2007 — Tampere International Film Festival
Miguel attended the Tampere International Film Festival, Finland where the film What Does Your Daddy Do? was screened in competition. The film also recently received a special mention by the Jury at the Larissa Film Festival, Greece.
26 February 2007 — National Film Theatre
Miguel ran a film music education event for GCSE students at the National Film Theatre during which he interviewed film composer David Arnold (Casino Royale, Hot Fuzz, Little Britain).
18 January 2007 — Broken
Miguel has finished scoring Vicki Psarias’ film Broken which deals with a Greek immigrant family living in London in the 1960s. Miguel was fortunate to work with Bouzouki player George Gregoriou and lyricist Vasilis Panayis on the creation of musical materials including a traditional Zembekiko song.
5 January 2007 — Nickelodeon Idents
Miguel composed music for the re-launch of Nickelodeon’s cartoon channel. The central animated character, a brain called Colin, likes to dance to cheesy 1970s Disco music. The idents will appear from Monday 12th February onwards.
28 September 2006 — European Film Music published
The book European Film Music which was co–edited by Miguel has been published. It is available both in hardback and in paperback from www.ashgate.com
5 September 2006 — Venice Film Festival
The short film What Does Your Daddy Do? directed by Martin Stitt with a score by Miguel is in competition at the 63rd Venice Film Festival. There are 16 films in the Corto Cortissimo section.
7 August 2006 — Indian Summer at Dartington
Miguel ran the Composing for Film course at the Dartington International Summer School and worked with the Rivoli string quartet, master tabla player Sanju Sahai, and Indian Vocalist Vijya Kara.