Dickon Hinchliffe - UK Composer, Orchestral Arranger and Songwriter

Published: Sept. 25, 2011, 3:28 a.m.

Dickon is a founding member of Tindersticks, the seminal UK band for which he composed music, played violin, guitar and keyboards.\xa0

His orchestral arrangements were one of\xa0
Tindersticks'\xa0most distinctive features. From 1993 to 2005,\xa0Dickon\xa0was involved in ten of their releases including their self-titled debut which was Melody Maker's album of the year.\xa0

Dickon\xa0began scoring films when French director Claire Denis approached\xa0Tindersticks\xa0to write the score to her films like Trouble Every Day,\xa0starring Vincent Gallo,\xa0and the film Friday Night.\xa0

Dickon\xa0has scored several other films including Forty Shades of Blue, directed by Ira Sachs, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2005.\xa0

Dickon\xa0has composed music for a range of films from Married Life, Last Chance Harvey, Cold Souls, and Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 for\xa0James Marsh.

More recently,\xa0
Dickon\xa0scored Debra Granik's\xa0multiple award winning feature film Winter's Bone, Passion Play for Mitch Glazer and the award winning documentary, Project Nim, again for James Marsh.