Brian Lock is widely recognised as a film & media composer, working with leading art-house directors, both in the UK and internationally. His most recent movie score was for the acclaimed French film director Philippe de Broca's masterpiece Vipère au Poing (USA: Viper in the Fist). Brian first achieved wide recognition in the film world for his classical reworkings in Jane Campion's The Portrait of a Lady, starring John Malkovich and Nicole Kidman. Other commissions from around the world include scores for The Land Girls directed by the UK's David Leland, starring Rachel Weisz and Anna Friel; The Gambler with Sir Michael Gambon and Jodhi May, for the doyen of Hungarian Cinema, Károly Makk; Magneto for Jan Jakub Kolski and Lagodna for Mariusz Trelinski in Poland. Other film credits include Chinese director Zang Zeming's Foreign Moon for BBC Films.

Brian studied with Alexander Goehr at Cambridge and then continued his studies at the Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, taking composition lessons from, amongst others, H.M. Gorecki and Witold Lutoslawski. Brian continues to enjoy an ongoing relationship with Poland and has scored many acclaimed Polish films along with music for the Polish stage adaptation of Tony Kushner's Angels in America. He is also a prolific writer of music for television and his work has been featured on programmes including the BBC's Panorama and Coast and CBS's 60 Minutes. Other commissions include orchestrations for the BBC's Olympic coverage, multimedia presentations for London's Millennium Dome and commercials for leading global brands, including Hewlett Packard and Coca-Cola. Brian's film scores have been released by labels including Virgin Classics and Silva Screen.

In addition, Brian is also an expert in digital music technology, teaching and researching in both this field and in composition as a Senior Lecturer at the University of London.

Beyond film commissions, Brian's latest projects include the development of a new musical genre. To present this innovative work, he has set up his own new band comprising a string quartet, two computers and three percussionists.

The Brian Lock Ensemble made its debut in a concert of six world premieres at LSO St. Luke's in London in October 2007, featuring three of the most innovative and highly-rated UK performers. Hugh Webb, who performed the Concerto for the Sound of a Harp & Other Sounds, is Principal Harp of the Philharmonia, a jazz harpist, avant garde and film music specialist. He was joined by Zoë Martlew on cello for the Sonata for Cello and Mixing Desk - a cabaret artiste and no-holds-barred improvising musician, who is equally at home at the cutting edge of the classical, avant garde, rock, pop, punk, jazz, dance, theatre, live electronics and video. Neyire Ashworth, one of the UK's most inventive and brilliant clarinetists, performed the Concerto for Clarinet, Percussion, Birds & Computers.

Earlier in 2007, Brian's recent Sonata for Flute and Piano received its London premiere at London's Wigmore Hall, with Susan Milan (flute) and Andrew Ball (piano).