WELCOME!
To the home of my songs, my music and anything else that might crop up from time to time.
"Paul Hartley is a composer of great originality, writing music full of atmosphere, charm and humour. With a particular flair for atmospheric orchestrations, his music evokes a wide range of feelings and images with subtle, unusual and appealing melodies."
Nic Rowley, TV/Film/Media Composer
ABOUT ME
I was born in Letchworth, UK. My parents emigrated to Horley, Surrey and reluctantly took me with them, along with my sister, Julia and my brother, Matthieu. I was 2. I was raised on a diet of pop music from the early 1960's. Having been put off learning the piano when i was six, I took up the guitar aged about 14. My father had a guitar but it had seen no action. It just hung there on the wall in the lounge doing nothing but gather dust.
One day during the summer holidays, I took it down, bought a book of chord windows, sat on my bed and strummed an E major. It sounded terrible. Then I realised that because I am left-handed, the strings were in the wrong place. I changed them round and strummed again. Frankly, it didn't sound much better.
Anyway, I persevered, and many years later I have my own small studio at home where I do most of my recording. Songs, themes, orchestral pieces, jingles etc. I have also composed and produced for commercial video, documentary, ballet and specific audition pieces for choreography. I play guitar OK, keyboards badly. The studio is based around Apple iMac running Logic Pro X.
Let's Work Together!
Check out my work on the Music or Songs page. If you like what you hear then head over to the Collaboration Page and see my views on working as a team.
If you like what you see then just get in touch from the Contact page