Michael J McEvoy (born August 29, 1961) is an American screen composer, orchestrator and multi-instrumentalist. 1980s As a session musician, writer and arranger, McEvoy worked on various projects with the producer Adam Kidron, including albums by Delta 5, Orange Juice, Scritti Politti and Ian Dury. In 1988, he met Curiosity Killed the Cat and joined the group for their second album, Getahead, as a co-writer and keyboard player. In 1989, he scored his first feature film, Vroom, (directed by Beeban Kidron starring Clive Owen and David Thewlis) followed by Bearskin in 1990 starring Tom Waits. 1990s During the 1990s, McEvoy's credits as a songwriter included songs by Soul II Soul on their album Volume II: 1990 New Decade and the soul diva Teena Marie ("Since Day One" on Ivory). He co-produced the James Taylor Quartet album Supernatural Feeling and was the musical director on tours with Soul II Soul and Steve Winwood, playing keyboards, Hammond organ and guitar in the 1994 line-up when a reformed Traffic embarked on an 88-date tour of the US and Europe including performing at Woodstock '94. Film and TV work Throughout the 1990s, McEvoy scored documentaries for TV channels in the US and the UK: PBS, A&E, C4, ITN and Discovery. Many of McEvoy's long form documentary work has been with the director Gary Johnstone, including ITN Factual's Battle of Hood and Bismarck and "Einstein's Big Idea" for the PBS Nova series. Other notable documentaries include BBC's Storyville: French Beauty, directed by Pascale Lamche. During this period he was nominated for regional Emmys in the US for Ryman: Mother Church of Country Music and Tennessee Yearbook, winning the latter in 2002. In 2003, McEvoy attended The Royal College of Music, where he was the PRS Sir Arthur Bliss Memorial Scholar and gained a MMus in composition for screen. On graduating in July 2005, he was awarded the Joseph Horovitz Prize for Screen Composition, the first time it had been awarded since 2001. McEvoy then took on the role of area leader for the screen composition at The Royal College of Music, a post he held from September 2005 until August 2008. In 2007, he worked closely as an orchestrator and co-writer with the DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold on the score for an award-winning Japanese anime feature Vexille, directed by Fumihiko Sori, and in the following year Overture Pictures' Nothing Like the Holidays directed by