composed the score for Alfonso Cuarón's "A Little
Princess," a score that earned him the L.A. Critics' award for best Film Score in 1995. He
received an Academy Award nomination for "Sense & Sensibility" that same year.
Doyle graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 1974
where he studied piano and singing. His first music score was written in 1978, and
subsequently has written the music for a host of radio, television, theatre and film
productions.
In 1987, he joined the Renaissance Theatre Company as composer and musical
director, composing music for such notable productions as "Hamlet," "As You Like It,"
"Much Ado About Nothing" and "Look Back in Anger," the last of which was also
filmed for television. He then completed a world tour with the Renaissance Theatre
Company, for which he was both composer and musical director for the company's
productions of "King Lear" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
In 1990, HRH The Prince of Wales commissioned Doyle to write "The Thistle
and the Rose," a song cycle for full choir, in honor of the Queen Mother's 90th birthday.
Doyle made his motion picture debut with the original score for Kenneth
Brannagh's "Henry V" and was given the 1989 Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Theme.
The composer re-teamed with Brannagh on "Dead Again," earning him a 1991 Golden
Globe nomination, "Much Ado About Nothing," "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein" and
"Hamlet," for which he received an Oscar nomination.
Doyle's other film credits include the score for the Academy Award-honored
"Indochine," "Shipwrecked," "Into the West," "Carlito's Way," "Une Femme Francaise,"
"Mrs. Winterbourne," "Needful Things" and "Donnie Brasco."
