Rachel Portman

Rachel Mary Berkeley Portman OBE born 11 December 1960 is an English composer who is best known for scoring films Portmans career in music began with writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Mike Leighs Four Days in July and Jim Hensons Storyteller series Since then Portman has written over 100 scores for film television and theatre Her other works include a childrens opera The Little Prince which was later adapted for television and Little House on the Prairie a musical based upon the Laura Ingalls Wilder books Little House on the Prairie 2008 Portman was commissioned to write a piece of choral music for the BBC Proms series in August 2007 called The Water Diviners Tale Description above from the Wikipedia article Rachel Portman licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia