Stephen McKeon | |
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Nationality | Irish |
Occupation | Composer |
Stephen McKeon is an Irish composer of film and television soundtrack music. He has received two Irish Film and Television Awards, both for John Boorman films, The Tiger's Tail in 2007[1][2] and Queen & Country in 2015,[2][3] and was previously nominated for Blind Flight,[4] Savage and the children's animated feature Niko 2 - Little Brother, Big Trouble. His other works include the music for The Nephew (1998) and Borstal Boy (2000). He also scored the 2011 biopic Hattie.
McKeon has written the scores of over 100 films (as of 2019), as well as a number of Hercule Poirot TV movies, as well as many TV drama series, including Black Mirror.[2] He has also scored the fourth and fifth seasons of the British fantasy drama Primeval.
He is a multi-instrumentalist whose work covers a wide spectrum from large orchestral scores to ambient guitar-based music such as that written for the Scottish BAFTA winning film Summer.