Paul Pellay
| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Composer |
| Location | Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | I'm me, who else should I be?! Composer, freelance music copyist and editor, making a living at something I love - can't ask for more! And on top of that, recently married to a gorgeous girl on the other side of the Atlantic (she lives in Memphis!). Life is decidedly interesting for me these days. |
| Interests | Music (it's my life, or at least the greater part of it), movies, contemporary fiction, travel |
| Favorite movies | In no particular order: Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Way out West, High Plains Drifter, Once Upon a Time in the West, Henry V (the Olivier version), Odd Man Out, Double Indemnity, Mr. Roberts, Fantasia, The Haunting, Duck Soup |
| Favorite music | Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Berlioz, Verdi, Bruckner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Elgar, Mahler, Debussy, Delius, Strauss, Sibelius, Nielsen, Vaughan Williams, Holst, Ives, Schoenberg, Ravel, Stravinsky, Bax, Berg, Prokofiev, Honegger, Hindemith, Gershwin, Poulenc, Copland, Walton, Tippett, Shostakovich, Barber, Schuman, Britten, Dutilleux, Bernstein, Arnold, Simpson, Berio, Henze, Schnittke, etc. etc. |
| Favorite books | The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Don Camillo (Giovanni Guareschi), To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee), Guilty Employers (Jude Peters), Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Poe), The House Next Door (Anne Rivers Siddons), Leaving Home (Garrison Keillor), Demons by Daylight (Ramsey Campbell) |