David Cullen, an Englishman not to be confused with the excellent American guitarist of the same name, studied composition at the Royal Academy of Music in the 1960s with the celebrated composer Richard Rodney Bennett. He has worked as a keyboard player, composer, record producer and arranger. He is best known as the orchestrator of musicals in London and New York, particularly those of Andrew Lloyd Webber – Cats, Starlight Express, Song and Dance, Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, By Jeeves, Whistle Down the Wind, Beautiful Game, The Phantom of the Opera, The Woman in White, Love Never Dies and The Wizard of Oz. He was awarded the New York Drama Desk award for the orchestrations of Phantom of the Opera, nominated again for Aspects of Love, nominated for a Tony for re-orchestrations of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake and again for his re-orchestration of Sondheim’s Company. He orchestrated films for Carl Davis and two musicals for Stephen Schwartz The Baker’s Wife and Schikeneder. His work appears on more than 50 albums. Now he spends his time writing original compositions and arranging classical and jazz music.