Glorious Assembly David Mitcham

• 1 The Autumn Of Our Days 06:44
• 2 335 07:09
• 3 Winter Settling In My Heart 06:22
• 4 Tom Wallager 06:07
• 5 Tidal Flow 06:46
• 6 A Kairos (In Blue) 05:23
• 7 Gold In The Depths 07:40
• 8 Bop Canon 08:41
• Total Runtime 54:52

Info for Glorious Assembly

Glorious Assembly features many of the most outstanding jazz musicians in Britain, in fact a glorious assembly of them! In addition to saxes, trumpets, trombones and rhythm section the line-up features flute/alto flute/piccolo, a range of clarinets from Eb clarinet to contrabass clarinet, tuba, harmonicas and ukuleles.

David Mitcham has long harboured the feeling to create a large jazz ensemble to play his compositions. Glorious Assembly was brought together for the first time in 2025 at British Grove studios. David wanted to score his work for an extended big band to enable him to use the widest possible palette of sound textures in the music. In addition to the more usual trumpets, saxophones, trombones and rhythm section he adds woodwind from the high flute, piccolo and Eb clarinet to the low bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet and a tuba at the bottom of the brass section. In the rhythm section the guitarist doubles on electric guitar, spanish guitar and ukulele. In one piece the brass swap their instruments for echo harmonicas.

The Glorious Assembly Jazz Orchestra

David Mitcham
David’s musical training began as a trombone player in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain playing under great conductors in venues such as the Royal Festival Hall and at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. He was awarded his ARCM at the age of 17. He then went on to study for his B Mus Tonmeister degree at Surrey University which involved a year working at Abbey Road Studios.

After five years working as a recording engineer and scoring industrial and corporate films he was commissioned to write a number of library music albums and in the mid 1980s became a professional composer.

His years in the NYO saw the beginning of his passion for the symphony orchestra and began the chain of events which has led to his writing such beautiful orchestral scores for projects like: the BBC’s NILE (2004), performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales with his favourite choir the Joyful Company of Singers, his music for the Crown Jewels at the Tower of London (2011) performed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and his suite The Shard Symphony (2012) which can be heard in The Shard on London’s South Bank performed by the London Symphony Orchestra again with JCS. Most recently you can hear his work with the Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra on the series Wild Austria (2018) and his score for the upcoming Silverback/Netflix feature film Secret Lives of Orangutans with the Dream Town Orchestra (2024).

His scores for natural history films have won numerous awards at international film festivals. These include Emmys in 2025 for Secret Lives of Orangutans, and 2016 for The Last Orangutan Eden, a Golden Panda at Wildscreen for The Elephant, the Emperor and the Butterfly Tree (2004), and in America, Best Music at both the American Wildlife Film Awards Jackson Hole (Danger in Tiger Paradise 2003) and the Missoula International Wildlife Film Festival (South Pacific 2010). He was nominated for an Ivor for Danger in Tiger Paradise in 2002 and at the Emmys for Mississippi Tales of the Last River Rat in 2006. The runaway success of the 2019 Netflix film Dancing with the Birds has led to nominations for best music at the Emmys, Wildscreen in Bristol and the International Documentary Awards in New York.

His scores have a rare ability to move an audience and give a film a heightened emotional intensity.

David is based in England in the historic South Wiltshire.

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