Benjamin McAvoy
My name is Ben, I run WMP, where this amazing roster are housed and have been involved in writing bespoke soundtracks for 14 years.
Piano and Modern Cinematic genres are my absolute focus as I adore fusing classical and modern elements together and I’m intensely obsessed with all things soundtrack related. Nils Frahm is my Elvis. I am quite possibly the worst person to watch TV with as I will insist on watching the adverts, rewinding and listening to the music, sound design and mix intently.
Collaboration is at the centre of everything I do, finding the most skilled, most talented writers and instrumentalists to work with and share in a creative journey is always the way to get the best result.
Will Featherby
Ever since his one-fingered rendition of the Titanic theme was received with rapturous applause by his family, Will realised his calling was to spread joy and emotion through sound.
For the past five years, Will has been a composer and sound designer for WMP, producing legions of bespoke audio for TV series, advertising and immersive experiences. Recent highlights include SK-II VS, branding for BT Sport, and contributing to the soundtrack for the BAFTA-nominated The Family Secret.
Kezia Tomsett
Kezia Tomsett is a film composer, producer and vocalist. She creates sweeping soundscapes, combining the acoustic and electro-acoustic with her own voice in rich ethereal textures and thematic melodies. Working in a hybrid of orchestral electronica, Kezia draws from her training in classical music theory and extensive practise in solo piano.
Working in animation, commercials, documentary, drama and thriller, Kezia uses her love of song-writing and music without words to enhance the visual narrative. She was recently selected for BFI Network x BAFTA Crew 2021.
Kezia has been freelancing since 2017, working with clients such as Covergirl, Blue Zoo, Dove and Sister X.
Eckoes
Ethereal electronica artist Eckoes merges other worldly textures & intimate sensual vocals to create a sound all of her own. The 6ft British Nigerian siren is recognised as much for her spellbinding music as for her mesmerising stage shows in outfits she creates herself by hand.
Pre-pandemic summer 2019 saw her perform across 2 stages at Glastonbury, All Points East & play 9 European dates. In 2021, she released EP1, featuring the single ‘Cages’ which rocketed to 100,000 streams in under 6 weeks & ‘Without Prejudice’ which debuted on Apple Music ‘Best of The Week’ chart.
A prolific songwriter outside of her solo project, she also pens music for TV and hit #13 in the UK Club Charts with a dance track feature & co-write.
Key tastemakers support includes BBC 6 Music, Ticketmaster “One To Watch”, Clash Magazine, Q, Wonderland, BBC Introducing, Indie Shuffle, Afropunk, and the MOBOs Mag amongst many others.
Findlay Brown
Findlay Brown is a Yorkshire-born singer-songwriter and producer. His music is melodic, gentle and intimate, drawing on influences from the rural settings where he grew up. His songs are metaphoric, often using nature’s imagery to illustrate the inner conflict in the search for a more truthful way of living.
Findlay Brown has appeared in a string of major international media publications including: The Guardian, Mojo, The New York Times, Vice, The Sun, Vogue, Musicweek, The LA Times, Spin Magazine, Arena, Oprah, Uncut, Word, Drowned in Sound, Stereogum and many more.
He also appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman in January 2010 with a full orchestra. Radio support includes radio hosts such as Zane Lowe and Jo Whiley (Radio 1) Ferne Cotton (Radio 2), John Kennedy (XFM), Rita Houston (WFUV, KEXP), Deepak Chopra (Sirius Radio).
His brilliant, spellbinding song “Come Home” was recently featured in television advertisements for the credit card company Mastercard.
Olivia Bhattacharjee
Olivia Bhattacharjee; composer, song-writer, vocalist. With an adaptive approach to song-writing, Olivia has collaborated with many artists and companies creating original material of many styles.
As part of electronic-soul band Noya Rao, she has released an album and two EPs, writing both music and lyrics in collaboration with the other band members. They have toured their show worldwide, receiving industry support and have recently been awarded the PPL Momentum Fund.
For her solo project Kashu, she writes and arranges original music with a debut release scheduled for 2022.
Within the sync world she has publishing deals at Five Missions More, Bibliotheque Music, MXF and more recently has worked on bespoke briefs for the sync powerhouse WMP, including successful campaigns such as Gumtree and Catsan. As part of The Bricks for Five Missions More, she has seen worldwide success featuring in hit series ‘I May Destroy You’, ‘Wentworth’, ‘Queen Sugar’ and ‘New Amsterdam’.
Peter Yelland-Brown
Now freelancing, PYB is able to put more of his time where his heart is, in songwriting. His own project, ‘PKYB’, explores faith, society and human nature. Self-produced in his Leeds-based studio, he hopes to release his debut EP in 2022. Be it top-lining a radio-worthy house banger or putting the world to rites in collaborative writing sessions, Pete is passionate about high-quality songs – no matter the genre. Honesty and authenticity for him are paramount; as is a meticulous editing process and willingness to learn from others.
With 6 years experience composing for moving image, Pete has worked on a number of high-profile ad campagins for the likes of Dove, Helly Hansen, Lacoste and Dreams, as well as Bafta nominated tv documentaries. You may have heard his compositions (or his velvety voice) if you enjoy eastern European soaps, UK soaps à la Hollyoaks etc…watched the Letterman interview with Kanye, watched any BT Sport in the past 18 months, seen the recent Tanqueray advert on telly, or searched for Float by Pete Yelland-Brown on all streaming platforms (if not, best do that now).
His latest not-so-lowkey flex, with over 1.5 million views on Youtube – a score for the SK-II Studio: ‘VS Pressure’ film for the Tokyo Olympics.
Hugo Meredith-Hardy
Hugo Meredith-Hardy is a Writer/Producer/Composer from London, currently working out of the Urchin Studios. He always focuses on the core and emotion of the music, bringing out the character, and never taking a generic or formulaic approach. He likes finding exciting, gritty or unusual sounds by using equipment in ways it wasn’t built for.
Hugo first got his hands dirty in the studio co-producing a record alongside legendary producer Dave M. Allen (The Cure, Depeche Mode), in Mark Ralph’s “Club Ralph” Studio. He has since worked out of a number of studios around the UK, and has been building credits on a number of projects, such as David Gray’s ‘Gold in a Brass Age’, Poppy Ajudha’s upcoming LP, Eleni Drake’s upcoming LP, alongside a huge string of exciting new artists.
Kamal Kamruddin
Kamal started making music because he wanted to play guitar like Hendrix. And from his early days playing the Match Of The Day theme in school assembly, to later touring the UK with a band performing Kelly Clarkson covers, guitar has remained his main instrument (though it turns out Hendrix can’t be matched, even if you are experienced).
As a young CD collector, Kamal tried to absorb as many types of music as he could, influenced (perhaps more than he realised at the time) by his dad’s “I like anything with a beat” approach to music appreciation. Listening and playing led to production, and then to composition, and upon Kamal’s realisation of just how rewarding it can be to bring visuals to life with a soundtrack, everything became about sound-for-picture. And consequently not long after came the inception of his and WMP’s long and beautiful history together.
The ensuing exploration of adding context through audio has since visited some pretty unexpected calling points for Kamal — writing the theme music for a Sky One reality series, mixing a big-band album, recording a WWII tank, and re-versioning a Tom Jones classic for a TV ad featuring singing houses. If only the projects came with free samples from the end-clients, Kamal might currently be on a TUI holiday in Kuwait with Bear Grylls, reclined on a DFS sofa, covered in Lacoste perfume, eating Maille mustard out of the jar and watching MotoGP on DAZN while a MyBuilder tradesperson fixes the toilet.
The dream is alive.
Stuart Thomas
Stuart Thomas is a Leeds based Electronic Music Producer and multi-instrumentalist. He jumps genres from loud to intimate, and blends styles to tell the right story. He started releasing music as ‘Mountain Range’ in 2012 on a secluded farm in Shropshire. The music has always been of chill out and post-rock influence, mixed up with danceable electronic beats.
Over the last decade he’s written multiple production music albums (Abbey Road Masters, Felt PM, Ninja Tune, Cavendish Music, Apache) along with thousands of loops for the sample industry (Novation, Splice, Touch Loops, Noiiz) and a steady release of his own music.
He finds writing in the third person weird, but gets why he’s doing it.