BIOGRAPHY - OLIVER VESSEY

Oliver is a highly versatile and experienced composer - classically trained, with a degree in music from City University, London, he is also in demand as a session pianist & keyboard player.

Live performances have ranged from John Cage at the ICA to The Chemical Brothers across the USA; from Debussy at the Purcell Room to the dance tent at Glastonbury.

As the keyboard player in Death In Vegas he toured and performed alongside a host of other bands including Daft Punk & Primal Scream, and at all of the major pop music festivals in the UK and Europe. He also recorded several sessions for the BBC and featured on TV shows in Paris, Cologne and New York. More recent session work has included various TV dramas and documentaries, production music albums and concert performances.

He spent several years working in Soho and Camden writing music for advertising and as a studio engineer and has been writing for KPM / EMI Creative since 1997, with over 400 tracks published to date.

In addition to Oliver's composition work for the media he has released several EPs and singles on independent labels which have received airplay from Radio 3 (Mixing It) to Radio 1 (John Peel), and music press praise from Jockey Slut to The Wire.