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 JB ARTHUR CV FEATURES – Music composition and contributions to the score DOCUMENTARIES – Score composition EVENTS – Music Director CHANNEL ID’s / TV PROGRAMMING – Composition, lyrics, producing COMMERCIALS – Score composition and “Sound-­‐a-­‐likes” MUSIC PRODUCTION DATE September 2011 PROJECT The Unlikely Leopard Documentary Broadcast on National Geographic INVOLVEMENT Music composition for this documentary, JB’s 8th collaboration with Dereck and Beverly Joubert, from Wildlife Films July-­August 2011 Absa National Choir Festival Music Director for the third year running. May 2011 Wouter Kellerman’s “Two Voices” album JB Produced the album that won Best Instrumental Album at the 17th South African Music Awards. Mixed in Los Angeles with S. Husky Hoskulds, Grammy Award-­winning engineer. October 2010 “The Last Lions” feature film Co-­composes the score for “The Last Lions” a National Geographic feature film, with Hollywood composer Alex Wurman (March of the Penguins, The Switch, Temple Grandin). In September 2011 the score for the film wins “Best Music” at the World Wildlife Film Festival at Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA July 2010 Absa National Choir Festival Music Director and Composer of the prescribed song for the 2010 Festival. Embarked on trips around South Africa, working with regional choirs participating in the Festival July 2010 FIFA World Cup 2010 Together with Victor Masondo, Sibongile Khumalo & Alexis Faku, JB produced all music for the World Cup Closing Ceremony. February 2010 Mnet’s Carte Blanche JB revised and produced all music for three Carte Blanche shows -­ Carte Blanche Domestic, Carte Blanche Medical and Carte Blanche Consumer on M-­Net. 2006-­2010 Strictly Come Dancing TV series on SABC Music Director for five successful seasons October 2009 FIFA World Cup Final Draw Composed and produced all music for the Final Draw, held on December 4th 2009 in Cape Town & live on TV to a worldwide audience of 2,5 billion. May 2009 Absa National Choir Festival Music Director and Composer of the prescribed song for the festival. JB also conducted the mass choir at their gala event. 2009 “Monna Wa Mmino: The Mike Masote Story”, feature film & 4-­
part TV series Composed the score for the feature based on the life story of Mike Masote, creator of the Soweto String Quartet 2009 “Big Cat Odyssey”, one hour show Composed the score for this Dereck and Beverly Joubert documentary through Wildlife Films. Broadcast on National Geographic DATE PROJECT INVOLVEMENT 2008 “Rhino Rescue”, one hour show Composed the score for this Dereck and Beverly Joubert documentary through Wildlife Films. Broadcast on National Geographic 2008 “Hansie”, feature film Significant contribution to the score for “Hansie” 2007-­2008 Miss World Pageant Together with partner Victor Masondo, JB produced the music for Miss World 2007 (held in Sanya, China) & 2008 (held in Johannesburg) 2007 Mr World Pageant Music Director for pageant held in China, broadcast worldwide 1987-­2007 Miss South Africa Pageants Music Director for ten pageants 2006 Dozi, SA recording artist JB together with partner Victor Masondo produced “Kom ‘n Bietjie Binne”. The album released late 2006 and sold platinum 2006 “Eye of the Leopard”, one hour show. Composed the score for these Dereck and Beverly Joubert documentaries through Wildlife Films. “Living with Big Cats”, one hour show. Broadcast on National Geographic “Eye of the Leopard”, won Best Nature Film at the Jules Verne Film Festival in Paris, Best Film at Jackson Hole, and an Emmy Award for Best Science and Nature program in 2007 2006 “Dangerous Companions”, one hour show Wrote and composed the score for the show with 50/50. 2005 “Crazy Monkey: Straight Outta Benoni”, feature film Contributed to the score 2005 Watershed, SA Pop/Rock band As a freelance producer, JB produced Watershed’s 2005 album “Mosaic” which went platinum shortly after release, & won “Best Pop Album” at the 2007 SAMA Awards. 2005 “Young Animals at Play”, a one hour show Wrote and composed the score for the show with Peartree Films, Wildlife Filmmakers. 2005 “Valley of the Golden Baboon”, one hour show Wrote and composed the score for the show with Aquavision, Wildlife Filmmakers. Broadcast on National Geographic 2004 “The Story of an African Farm”, a feature film starring Richard E Grant & Armin Mueller-­Stahl Composed and recorded the soundtrack, for which JB won a SAMA in 2005 DATE PROJECT INVOLVEMENT 2004 “Feast of Predators”, one hour show broadcast on Animal Planet Wrote and composed the score for these shows with Aquavision, Wildlife Filmmakers. “Penguins Under Seige”, one hour show broadcast on National Geographic “Rivers of Danger”, one hour show broadcast on Animal Planet 2003 “Wild Dogs: Biting Back”, one hour show. Wrote and composed the score for these shows with Aquavision, Wildlife Filmmakers. “Shark Quest”, one hour Show. “Africa’s Secret Seven” one hour show. Broadcast on National Geographic 2002 “Living With Lions”, one hour show. Wrote and composed the score for these shows with Aquavision, Wildlife Filmmakers. “Dragons of the Namib”, one hour show. Broadcast on National Geographic 2002 “Ultimate Enemies”, one hour show “Hunting Hounds of Arabia”, one hour show. Broadcast on National Geographic Composed the score for these Dereck and Beverly Joubert documentaries through Wildlife Films. “Ultimate Enemies” premiered in the USA and had the highest viewership ever recorded on the National Geographic Channel. 2002 “ Mr Bones” a feature starring Leon Schuster Significant contribution to the film score 2001 SAMA Awards Ceremony Music Director for the ceremony and show 2001 -­ current Formed new independent label “Instinct Africaine” with partner Victor Masondo Instinct Africaine signings & productions include: Freshlyground, Thembi Mtshali, Ntombethongo, PJ Powers, Carlo Mombelli, Wambali, Tony Cox & Steve Newman Freshlyground’s debut album “Nomvula” is multi-­platinum, a SAMA award-­winner. In 2007 they became the 1st SA artistes to win an MTV Europe Award. Their 2007 release, “Ma’cheri” sold multi-­platinum & won four SAMA awards in 2008, including “Album of the Year” DATE PROJECT INVOLVEMENT 2001 -­ current Formed new independent label “Instinct Africaine” with partner Victor Masondo Ntombethongo: “Thokozile”, due for release 2012 Thembi Mtshali: “Bayabizana”, due for release 2012 Carlo Mombelli & The Prisoners of Strange: “Theory”, a 2008 SAMA nominee “I Stared into My Head”, a 2005 SAMA nominee for Best Contemporary Jazz “When Serious Babies Dance”, a 2002 SAMA nominee for JB as Best Engineer. Tony Cox: “China”, a 2002 SAMA winner for Best Instrumental Album “Blue Anthem”, a 2007 SAMA winner for Best Instrumental Album. PJ Powers: “Sondela” released in 2006 by Sony Music. Tony Cox & Steve Newman: “About Time”, a 2003 SAMA nominee Wambali: “Zani Muwone”, a 2002 SAMA winner for Best Contemporary African Album and “Moto” in 2007. JB, Sibusiso Masondo and Zwai Bala produced “Heartlines”, the soundtrack to the TV series. This was a multi-­artiste collaboration featuring Loyiso, Sibongile Khumalo, Gloria Bosman, Jabu Hlongwane. 1999-­2000 Miss Teen South Africa Music Director for two pageants 1999 “The Millennium Chorus”, a worldwide release Recorded & co-­produced “Amazing Grace” with Victor Masondo for this release. Recorded for Harmony Records, a division of Epic Records, Based in NYC. 1999 “Journey of The Giant”, one hour show for the Discovery Channel Wrote and composed the score for this show with Aquavision, Wildlife Filmmakers. 1998 “Fit For The Wild”, 13 part series broadcast on Animal Planet Wrote and composed the score for this 13 part series with Aquavision, Wildlife Filmmakers. 1997 “African River Goddess”, one hour show Wrote and composed the score for these shows with Aquavision, Wildlife Filmmakers. “Rhino’s: Charging Back”, one hour show on Animal Planet DATE 1996-­2005 PROJECT National TV Channels: SABC 1,2 and 3 “Simunye We Are One”, “Feel At Home” INVOLVEMENT Wrote and produced well known channel imaging themes MNET “We Call it Magic” DSTV Learn Channel 1992 – 1996 Various commercials: Nedbank, Castle, Mnet, Amstel, Siemens, Radox, Sales House and Toyota amongst others Wrote, Composed, and produced music for various commercials alongside many South African ad agencies and directors. 1983 – 1988 Individual artists – Karl Kikillus, Neil Cloud, Bobby Angel, Tommy Dell, Beverley Van Zyl, amongst others JB produced for all these artists as a freelance record producer 1982-­1989 Various SABC Television musicals including “Portrait of JB Arthur”, & “Portrait of Mynie Grove” Music Director for many of the high profile SABC television musicals, of which “Portrait of Mynie Grove” won an Artes Award. 1982 The album “Iets Anders” by Mynie Grove This was JB’s first record production, for well-­
known artist Mynie Grove, which was groundbreaking in that it was the first Afrikaans rock album to be produced in South Africa at that time. 1980 – 1982 Rock Band “Morocko” Founder member