Simon Hale is a British composer, arranger, and keyboardist.
Background
Hale was born in Birmingham, England in 1964, being dually raised there and in South Manchester before moving to London, where he studied performance and composition at Goldsmiths College, University of London between 1982-1985. His father is Tony Hale, formerly Head of Music and Programming at Capital Radio.
Education
Goldsmiths, University of London.
Career
"with the Middle-Eastern tonalities replaced by the swirling string arrangements of Simon Hale, which lends the album a melodramatic politicized tone akin to Curtis Mayfield"s mid-Seventies work." Andy Gill, The Independent 23 September 2007
"East Fifteen" EFZ Records 1994.
Views
Quotations:
"I need to thank Simon Hale, who should be up here with me tonight because he did these amazing string arrangements for our show, and we worked together for ten years and he is awesome." Duncan Sheik acceptance speech for Tony Award "Best Orchestrations" on Spring Awakening 2007.
"with the Middle-Eastern tonalities replaced by the swirling string arrangements of Simon Hale, which lends the album a melodramatic politicized tone akin to Curtis Mayfield"s mid-Seventies work." Andy Gill, The Independent 23 September 2007.