Phil Mountford Film & Classical Music Composer

Phil Mountford is a prolific and in demand composer of film music, having scored the soundtracks to several feature films.

As well as composing for film Phil has also scored for corporate productions, animations, film trailers, advertising and theatre. Having worked in many styles and genres Phil is equally competent orchestrating for ensembles or producing full simulated orchestral or electronic scores.

In 2008 Phil formed the classical ensemble Fordante to perform his own unique crossover classical music heavily inspired from his film scoring background and fusing in elements of electronic, baroque and classical music. Fordante's debut album has been described as:

‘Passionate and uplifting…faultless performance…an unexpectedly refreshing album that has broader appeal than its classical roots…A wonderful piece of work’
- The Music Critic ****


Phil started his musical journey studying the organ from aged 10. On graduating as a software engineer Phil began his career as a computer programmer during which time he was regularly performing as a vocalist and keyboardist. In 2004 he was asked to score his first soundtrack to a short film and has since gone on to write for many feature films, the second of which, 'Veiled Existence' , premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival. He has also composed for many corporate videos, animations and short films including Norman Wisdom's last film 'Espresso' and more recently 'Waiting In Rhyme' starring Les Dennis, both in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

He has also written for theatre including the music to the 2009 series of monologues 'Survisorship'.