Background
Phipps is the son of Sue Pears and Jack Phipps, an arts administrator who had previously founded a management agency, which acted for many leading musical figures (including Benjamin Britten, Phipps"s godfather).
Phipps is the son of Sue Pears and Jack Phipps, an arts administrator who had previously founded a management agency, which acted for many leading musical figures (including Benjamin Britten, Phipps"s godfather).
Phipps scored Low Winter Sun for Channel 4, starring Mark Strong and Brian McCardie and Persuasion, the most recent Independent Television adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel, as well as Grow Your Own, a feature for Warp Films. He also scored the British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of Jane Austen"s Sense and Sensibility, adapted by Andrew Davies. Phipps went on to score the Rowan Joffe helmed drama, Hurndall for Talkback Thames followed by Wallander for Yellow Bird/Left Bank Pictures, starring Kenneth Branagh, for which he was recognised with the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Craft Award 2009 for Best Original television Score.
He then went onto write the music for the feature film, Endgame, starring William Hurt, Derek Jacobi, Mark Strong, Jonny Lee Miller and Chiwetel Ejiofor, chronicling the breakdown of South. African apartheid, directed by Pete Travis.
lieutenant was entered into competition at the Sundance Film Festival. He also scored Small Island for Ruby Films/British Broadcasting Corporation, winning the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Craft Award 2010 for Best Original Television Music.
More recently, he completed the score for his first feature film, Brighton Rock and composed the music for the newest British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of Great Expectations. In 2005, Phipps wrote the score to the film Pierrepoint.
Other credits include The Wife of Bath from the British Broadcasting Corporation’s contemporary adaptation of the Canterbury Tales, and the contemporary drama Dirty Filthy Love.
He also scored the British feature film, The Flying Scotsman, and The Lincolnshire of Beauty. Phipps scored the United Kingdom thriller feature Harry Brown for Cutting Edge/Marv Films, starring Michael Caine, as well as Rowan Joffe"s feature adaptation of Graham Greene"s Brighton Rock. Mike Diver described Phipps" score as "rich and sumptuous of tone and depth".
He co-wrote the score with Emily Barker for the British Broadcasting Corporation drama The Shadow Lincolnshire.
Autered by Hugo Blick for the British Broadcasting Corporation, it was described by one critic as "a maddening, stylish experiment in doing something completely, admirably different with television". More recent credits include the first series of Peaky Blinders on BBC2 for which he was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Craft Award and The Honourable Woman.
His documentary work includes scoring the documentary Britain in a Day. More recently he composed the score of the Harvey Weinstein film "Woman in Gold" in collaboration with Hans Zimmer, and is currently working on the British Broadcasting Corporation adaptation of "War and Peace".