Jonny Gunton
Composer

Film and television

Emotionally driven scores for the screen. Twenty-five years, an RTS award, and work for BBC, National Geographic, Disney, Discovery, ITV and Channel 4.

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Selected work

Lost Land of the Tiger transmission card
Lost Land of the Tiger RTS award winner · BBC One
Nature's Weirdest Events transmission card
Nature's Weirdest EventsBBC TWO
Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom transmission card
Wild BurmaBBC TWO
Unknown Waters with Jeremy Wade transmission card
Unknown WatersNAT GEO · DISNEY
World's Weirdest Events transmission card
World's Weirdest EventsBBC TWO
Winter's Weirdest Events transmission card
Winter's Weirdest EventsBBC TWO
Woolly mammoth silhouetted against the sun
Woolly MammothBBC TWO

Title sequences

Original music by

Jonny Gunton

Lost Land of the Tiger
BBC One
Wild Burma: Nature's Lost Kingdom
BBC Two
The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World
BBC
World's Weirdest Events
BBC Two
Woolly Mammoth: Secrets from the Ice
BBC Two
Natural World
BBC Two
Unknown Waters
Disney / National Geographic
Carnival
Short drama, 123 Media
News: ISIS
Channel 4

Royal Television Society Award

Jonny Gunton's Bristol scoring studio, picture monitor showing timecode above the mixing desk and synths
Roland Juno-60 Roland TR-808 Roland SH-09 Studio microphone

Bristol.
Analogue at heart.

After interning at Philip Glass's Looking Glass Studios in New York, Jonny built an approach that puts emotional tone and atmosphere at the centre of the story. Today he scores from his Bristol studio, moving between orchestral writing, vintage synthesis and subtle sound design, shaped by what each film needs.

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