Dorian Kelly was educated at Reading Grammar School and went on to study trumpet and piano at the Royal College of Music Junior Department (part-time for two years), followed by Trinity College of Music (full-time for three years). After leaving college he worked as an instrumental music teacher and a freelance trumpet player, with performance credits including Frank Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Neil Diamond, Jamie Cullum, The Temptations, The Drifters at venues including The Royal Albert Hall, The Festival Hall & Glastonbury.
In 2005 Dorian relocated to Yorkshire and switched his attention to composition. Since then he has composed and recorded the music for over 30 short films, animations and documentaries and has had over 250 media music tracks published, resulting in international broadcast usage including on the following channels – Sky 1, Sky 2, Netflix, Amazon Prime, ITV2, ITVBe, Discovery Channel, Lion TV, Living TV, Access Hollywood, Sky Go, Apple Music, Now TV, EDGEsport, The History Channel, Travel Channel, Recipe TV, E! News Live, E! News Daily, E! Entertainment and BBC radio.
In 2010 Dorian returned to studying and completed an ALCM (Composition) in 2011, followed by an LLCM (Composition) in 2012, as an external student with the London College of Music. During this time Dorian composed numerous choral works (SATB, SSA & TTBB), ensemble arrangements and several music-based educational resources, which are published on his own web site www.modalmusic.co.uk
He was the musical director for Chapel-en-le-Frith Ladies Choir for seven years and the Halifax Cube Choir for over two years. He is currently the musical director of Saddleworth Male Voice Choir, The Oldham Choir (SATB) and has recently been appointed to the post of MD of New Mill Male Voice Choir. He also works as an examiner for Trinity College London (Rock & Pop Syllabus), as well as a private brass teacher.
Red Note Ensemble
Performance of ‘Way Home’ for solo flute (soloist Ruth Morley / Starts @ 13:52)
NottNoise New Music Marathon 2020
Please start at 16:21 for ‘DR1’
Foden’s Youth Band – Carnaval Dorado
One of five winning competition entries
Film / Animation / Documentary Credits:
Baby Anne – Andrew Soko / Isoko Design – Drama (18 mins)
Love Rust – Krysia Davies – Animation Short
Benno Rogla – Gary Forrester / Soul Rebel Films – Documentary – Audio Clean-Up & Music
My Father’s Picture – Alan Amin – Drama (20 mins) IMDB
It’s Five O’Cluck Somewhere – Chris Meek – Animation Short
The Whitches of Wookey (Doc Short) IMDB
Being John – Shrikant Shelar – Drama Short
Environmental Auditor – Lara Marsden – On-line documentary
Kamiya Insurance Comercial – broadcast on YouTube & UTB (DTV channel 18.2)
Lotus – Mei Chee Law – Animation Short
Jump Cuts – Emma Savage – Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts – Drama Short
The Forgotten Hero – Dov Vishniya – Animation Short
Buck Wild – Thomas Lo – Comedy Feature – 4 tracks licensed IMDB
The Secret Boyfriend – Ross Novie – Internet Broadcast
Jesus F. Trotsky – Nick O’Mahoney – Comedy/Doc. Feature – (75mins) IMDB
Pendleton – Joseph Kamiya – Drama short
The Usual Santa – James Elster – Drama short
Dumped – Mark Fullick – 4 min animation
The Scratcher – Eric Fischer – Comedy Drama (22mins)
Meaning of Max – Chris Roberts – Comedy short – distributed by Ouat Media
Morton’s Fort – Screenwriters Ink – Drama Short – Belfast Film Festival
Surrealism – Gail Davey – Screened at the Hayward Gallery London
Painting With Light – Documentary – ENG Short – Gerard Stabnik
Library Music Published with:
Stockmusic.net (Canada)
Soundscape Media (Canada)
OneStopMusic / Transmission Music (USA)
Media Music Now (UK)
Pump Audio (USA)
Sound Dogs (USA)
Reel Tracks (Europe & North America)
Platinum Music (UK)
Soundrangers (USA)
Productiontrax (USA)
Daddy Jack’s Music (USA)
Rock Talk Music / Hollywood Trax Collection (USA)
This has resulted in usage all over the world, including:
UK, USA, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Finland, Sweden, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan & Russia.
On the following channels:
Other work:
Transcription / Music preparation for Cayman Music
Music content provider (Songs / Instrumentals & Sound FX) for Mamas & Papas
Arrangements for vocalist Peter Grant and 10-piece band
Arrangements for the Pendulum Jazz Orchestra with Jamie Cullum
Arrangements for vocalist / impressionist Darren Day and 7-piece band