Most musicians, if they are lucky, will master one craft or field within their career. For Michael Price, he’s managed three, with his music spanning across piano, orchestral and soundtrack work.
The soundtrack work – for TV shows such as Sherlock, Dracula, or six seasons of the hugely successful Unforgotten, and films such as Eternal Beauty, Cheerful Weather and Wild Child – has seen Price win an Emmy, as well as receive countless nominations (including both BAFTA and two more EMMY noms for Sherlock, and an Ivor Novello nomination in 2021 for his work on Dracula, with David Arnold).
His work as a solo artist takes the form of beautiful improvised piano works, as heard on albums like Diary (2017) and Diary 2 (2024), or via lush, grand, hyper-detailed orchestral work, as heard on critically acclaimed releases via Erased Tapes such as Entanglement (2015) and Tender Symmetry (2018). His album The Hope of Better Weather, is rooted in the piano world but also exists as a bridge crossing into new terrain, including reworks and remixes from the likes of Yann Tiersen, Bill Ryder-Jones and Eluvium. Whitsun (2022), an album in which Price plays all the instruments, is an exploration of the connection between sound and memory, featuring fragments of music he heard as a child, re-contextualised into a deeply emotional new soundscape.
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