Paul Ross Thomson (born 18 February 1972 in

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for film, television, and video games and music technologist who lives in the Cotswolds. He won the 2012

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Craft & Design Award for ''Music Original Title'' for his theme music ''

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's cult series.

Spitfire Audio

He founded the British music technology company Spitfire Audio with fellow

Christian Henson in 2007. The company has become the pre-eminent producer of musical ''Virtual Instruments'' Worldwide, having collaborated with noted film composer ''Hans Zimmer'', ''Chad Smith'' (''Red Hot Chili Peppers''), ''Olafur Arnalds'', ''Roger Taylor'' (''Queen''), ''Eric Whitacre'', ''BT'', posthumously with the legendary explorer and musician ''David Fanshawe'' and most recently with the ''BBC Symphony Orchestra''.

Television

Thomson has written for a variety of films and television shows. Recent work also includes the multiple award winning movie Missed Connections, the

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of ''

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'', the BAFTA Best Drama winning and BANFF Best Youth Fiction award winning ''

'' (2011), '' Discovery: Project Earth'' (2008) and ''

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'' (2008).

Games

Thomson was a lead composer on '' LittleBigPlanet 2'' created by Media Molecule creating all of the cinematics for the game, and several adaptive music tracks. He also worked with the company on the first game's downloadable content, scoring the ''

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'' premium level pack and the " Marvel" premium level pack. He has also worked on LittleBigPlanet Karting, LittleBigPlanet Vita, and most recently, LittleBigPlanet 3.

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