Darren Stone
Composer
Welcome
Darren Stone has been a professional composer and producer for 15 years. Starting out in Southampton dabbling for a short stint working for Mark Hill (Craig David, Artful Dodger) and co-writing with Steve Hillier (Dubstar) soon led to Darren’s first break in TV working for Endemol Entertainment.
In the early years Darren worked on documentaries for Discovery, adverts for Saatchi and Saatchi, promos for Disney and primetime shows including Football Saved My Life starring Neil Ruddock (Bravo), Football Icon (Sky One), Staying In With Greg and Russell (BBC) presented by Greg James and Russell Kane and original music for the BAFTA’s.
In 2011 Darren signed to Sarah Liversedge at BDi, during that period he scored all of BBC’s Live format shows including Lambing Live, Wales Live, National Treasures Live and the hugely successful Stargazing Live featuring Professor Brian Cox and Dara O’Briain.
In 2013 Darren started production on a campaign for Disney Juniors, the brief commissioned by Creative Director Simon Dean was to compose an original song to encourage children to be happy, active and “get up and dance”. Not to let the core message get away, the titled Get Up and Dance has been a global success, translated into multiple languages, licensed for merchandise, number one album on Amazon’s Children’s Charts and over 53 million Youtube views worldwide.
Composing and songwriting for Disney has continued including promo work for all Disney channels and songs for Summer and Christmas campaigns, Darren has also composed and produced songs for the popular animation series The Happos Family (Warner Media).
From 2018 Darren has worked for Warner Media including producing continuity music for the Boomerang Channel and scoring music promos for animation series such as The Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10, Adventure Time and Clarence as well composing original music and sound design for the Cartoon Network’s Theme Parks including Ben 10 Adventurer and the Adventure Time, Dark Ride; more recently Darren has worked extensively on the computer game series Ben 10 Superhero Time.
Darren left BDi in 2016 but has continued to work for Sarah Liversedge producing a number of albums for Standard Music and Brittanica, part of Buck Music. Albums for The Nerve have been featured on many shows including extensive use in the documentary series A Greek Odyssey With Bettany Hughes, American Monster, Derren Brown Live and more.
Darren’s musical background started as a live musician and producer; this DNA is found in all his work, which contributes to his unique self-taught approach when scoring, exploring sound design or composing original music.
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Portfolio Of Work
BBC
- Stargazing Live (Music/Music - BBC TWO)
- Stargazing Live Back To Earth (Titles - BBC TWO)
- Lambing Live (Titles/Music - BBC TWO)
- Lambing Live Preview Show (Titles/Music - BBC TWO)
- National Treasures Live (Titles/Music - BBC TWO)
- Wales Live (Titles/Music - BBC Wales)
- Wales Debates (Titles/Music - BBC Wales)
- Staying In With Greg and Russell (Titles - BBC TWO)
- BAFTA FILM/TV Awards (Titles/Sound Design BBC TWO)
- BAFTA FILM/TV Awards (Sound Design - BBC TWO)
- We Love Sitcom (Titles - BBC TWO)
- Don’t Get Done Get Dom (Titles/Music - BBCONE)
- Chinese Burn (Titles - BBC THREE)
- Undercover Dads (Titles/Music - Children’s BBC)
- BBC What’s On (Mix)
- BBC Digital Pitch (Mix)
- BBC Learning (Sound Design/Mix)
- BBC Academy (Music)
DISNEY
- Get Up and Dance (Song - Commercial Release)
- Get Up And Dance (10 International Variations)
- Get Up and Dance (Merchandise Remix)
- Disney Junior Summertime Party (Com Release)
- Disney Junior Summertime Party (8 International Variations)
- Disney Chanel Christmas Idents
- Disney Channel Summer Idents
- Disney Junior Christmas (Song - Com Release)
- Disney Channel Idents
- Disney XD Fruits (Branding - Sound Design)
- Disney XD Rio (Branding - Sound Design)
- Disney Planes (Adv - Sound Design)
- XD Shows Remixes (Adv - UK. Poland, Turkey)
- XD Teaser (Branding)
- Disney XD Robot (Branding)
- Disney XD Promo (Branding)
- Football Freestyle (Branding)
- Chicken Day (Branding)
WARNER MEDIA
- Cartoon Network Rewind (Original music/Remixing - Social)
- Boomerang Channel Continuity (Original Music/Additional Sound Design)
- Power Puff Girls (Remix - Europe)
- Power Puff Girls (Remix - Turkey)
- Power Puff Girls (Advert Original Music)
- Boomerang Halloween Idents
- Boomerand Winter Idents
- The Happos Family - Happos Love To Count (Song)
- The Happos Family - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
- The Happos Family - Happy Happos (Song)
- Ben 10 Adventurer (Theme Park Ride)
- Adventure Time Dark Ride (Theme Park Ride)
- Ben 10 Superhero Time (Game)
- Ben 10 Superhero Time Additional Levels (Game)
ITV / Channel 4
- Big Brother 2018 (Sound Design - CH4)
- It’s A Funny Old Week, with Jason Manford (Titles ITV)
- Feeling Nuts - Stand Up To Cancer (Titles - Ch4)
- Bad Bridesmaid - (Titles/Music - ITV)
- The Turner Prize (Titles - Ch4)
- National Comedy Awards (Titles/sound design/additional music - CH4)
- Roberts Web (Channel 4)
- The JD Set (Ch4/4Music)
- Fox’s All Time Top 50 List (4Music)
- The Trial Of Jemma Lang (ITV - Additional Music)
- Countdown To Midnight: Take That and Guests Live at the O2 (ITV)
- Chantelle’s Dream Dates (Channel 4)
DISCOVERY NETWORKS
- Driving Me Crazy (Titles/underscore)
- Don’t Tell The Bride (Sweden - Titles)
- I Want A House Abroad (Titles/Score)
- Love Under Construction (Sweden)
- Your Style In His Hands (Tiles/Beds)
- Bigger Than (Titles)
Albums
- Rise Up (Standard Music)
- Dark Shade Of Optimism (The Nerve)
- Acoustic Velvet (Brittanica)
SONGS
- Don't Say No - Darren Stone, Adam Hedley-Smith, Steve Hillier
- Don't Get Up - Darren Stone, Adam Hedley-Smith, Steve Hillier
- Home - Darren Stone, Adam Hedley-Smith, Steve Hillier
- In Time For Life - Darren Stone, Adam Hedley-Smith
- Just For A While By Jason Fichera (Mix)
- The Last Days By Jack Pinder (Mix)
- Where The End Begins By Jack Pinder (Mix)
Further Works
- Cottage Italia - (Sky)
- Vanish (Adv)
- Talks Music (Titles - Sky Arts)
- Exit Festival (MTV)
- Cockney’s vs Zombies (Music/Sound design DVD Extras)
- Why I Do What I DO (Music - Doc)
- Blade XT (Music - Corporate)
- Soundcheque (Promo)
- JLT (Music/Sound design - Corporate)
- Luxus (Music - Corporate)
- Hypnoprized (Music - Pilot)
- Linkee (Music - Corporate)
- Quintessentially Events Music - Corporate)
- Anesco (Music - Corporate)
- The Music That Made Me (Box)
- Fox’s All Time Top 50 List (4Music)
- Around The World With Voyager (Adv)
- It’s Behind You (Sound Design - Pilot)
- Happy Runner (Adv)
- Silverjet (Adv)
- Poms On Tour (Fosters)
- Whizkid Logo (Branding)
- Channel Bee (Branding)
- Help! I Have a high maintenance wife (Titles - Whizz Kid)
- Football Saved My Life (Titles/Music - Bravo)
- Football Icon (Titles/Music - Sky One)