Douglas Black Heaton

Douglas Black Heaton is a composer writing music for TV, film, advertising, and games. Recent TV work includes Simon Schama's The Romantics and Us and Britain's Biggest Dig, both for BBC2, Hurricane Man for Discovery Science, Monty Don's Japanese Gardens for BBC2, Danny & Mick for CBBC and Angry Birds Slingshot Stories for Rovio Entertainment. Douglas has scored more than 200 episodes of Piggy Tales, Angry Birds Blues. Angry Birds Toons, Angry Birds Makerspace and Angry Birds on the Run, all hugely successful internationally distributed animation series, as well as music for the phenomenally popular Angry Birds Seasons game and playing guitar in the Angry Birds Movie (accompanying Peter Dinklage singing The Mighty Eagle song). Other notable TV composition work includes BBC1's Garden Rescue, the Kate Humble fronted Chinese New Year: The Biggest Celebration on Earth for BBC2, Channel 4's Scandimania, from River Cottage's Hugh-Fearnley Whittingstall, BBC2's World's Greatest Food Markets, Dambusters' Greatest Escape and Treasures of the Jade Empire, both for Channel 4's Secret History strand. Douglas has scored promos for John Lewis, L'Oreal, Nokia and Moomins as well as music for Angry Birds tie ups with Star Wars, Lego, Transformers, and Shakira. He is also a tutor at Thinkspace Education, an online film scoring school run by Guy Michelmore.