Mike McGibney - Composer
As well as tutoring music students in composition, I also write and release material under my own name.
My influences include film composers such as Thomas Newman, James Horner and Harry Gregson-Williams, choral composers including Eric Whitacre, Ola Gjeilo and Morten Lauridsen, and 20th Century English composers such as Ralph Vaughn-Williams, Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst, Sir Karl Jenkins and Michael Tippet. More contemporary influences include Joni Mitchell, Sting and Bruce Hornsby.
I particularly enjoy writing for orchestra and choir, but also love solo piano. I record and mix using Logic Pro X, and score in Musescore. Some of my preferred VST plugins include Spitfire Audio’s BBC Symphony Orchestra, Spitfire Solo Strings, Eric Whitacre Choir, Native Instruments Noire and Cremona Quartet, East West Hollywood Choir & Ravenscroft 275 Piano.
Please feel free to check out some of my compositions below!
A cinematic composition evoking the golden age of sail and naval warfare.
A cinematic orchestral piece with elements of Hans Zimmer .
A piece written for orchestra inspired by soaring romantic film themes and a yearning to be somewhere else.
An emotional and enigmatic piece arranged for String Octet or String Orchestra, based on an earlier solo piano composition.
My original piano composition, later scored for chamber orchestra.
A choral piece for double SATB choir, influenced by Eric Whitacre, Dan Forrest and Ola Gjeilo, with an expanded setting of the ‘Crooked Man’ nursery rhyme.
A piano composition written in the style of the great film composer, Thomas Newman.
A pastoral-style composition with a romantic piano theme, this was influenced by 20th Century English composers such as Vaugh-Williams and Holst.
A solo piano composition written for my infant daughter Lila.
A romantic and melancholic piece written for strings and woodwinds.
I am available for writing commisions and collaborations.
Please email me to get in touch and discuss your requirements.