Sheridan Tongue
Sheridan Tongue is internationally acclaimed for his incredible soundtracks for Silent Witness, Wonders of the Universe, and in June 2023 was nominated for an EMMY for his work on the film Mavericks. He won an EMMY in 2021 for his work on The Last Artifact film from the Northwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Sheridan has recently completed the soundtrack for the new series of Silent Witness on BBC1 (January 2025), the longest-running crime drama in the world. He has scored 14 series of the award winning show.
Sheridan’s expertise in scoring drama has recently extended into the realm of high-end natural history programming. His versatility as a composer was on full display in his recent collaboration with Nainita Desai, where the two created the music for the feature-length documentary Turtle Walker. Directed by Taira Malaney, Turtle Walker chronicles the remarkable life of Satish Bhaskar, a pioneering figure in India’s sea turtle conservation efforts. Turtle Walker was awarded the prestigious Grand Teton Award—along with the title of Best Conservation Film—at the 2024 Jackson Wild Media Awards.
Sheridan also composed the soundtrack to the documentary feature Race To The Summit for Netflix and Pitch International creating a very electronic score. It tells the incredible story of Swiss free climbers Dani Arnold and Ueli Steck. He also composed the soundtrack for the BBC Studios Documentary Unit three part series The Great Rhino Robbery which was nominated for Best Series Award at the 2024 Wildscreen Panda awards.
In November 2022 Sheridan was awarded the Outstanding Contribution to Music Award at the Northern Ireland Music Prize in Belfast presented by PRS for Music.
Belfast born, Sheridan is not only one of the UK’s most successful film and TV composers, he is also an artist and songwriter through his pseudonym IN-IS. Tracks from his IN-IS albums have featured in CSI Vegas (CBS) and Another Life (Netflix). He released his second IN-IS album 2068 in 2020, which draws upon his wide range of musical experiences, from orchestral and electronic to his roots in Northern Ireland and Donegal, Ireland. Seven Days, Sheridan’s first IN-IS album was released in 2016.
In 2021, Sheridan composed the dramatic soundtrack for the new 13-part Meerkat Manor: Rise of the Dynasty for AMC+ and BBC America, bringing something unexpected to the wildlife genre with a bold new sound world, more often associated with drama than documentary.
His music has been used in Drive to Survive (Netflix), Planet Earth Live (BBC), 9/11 Inside Airforce One (Apple), The Grand Tour (Amazon) and Murder in the Heartland (Investigation Discovery) to name a few.
Sheridan strives to achieve originality throughout his music, avoiding traditional composition techniques in favour of the more unusual, often creating unique sounds with his use of unexpected instruments, such as the iconic oil drum to recreate the sound of the Belfast streets for the BBC landmark documentary series Spotlight on the Troubles: A Secret History.
A Tonmeister graduate from the University of Surrey, it was there that Sheridan explored his love of sound recording and acoustics alongside orchestration, composition, and conducting. His approach to composing is influenced by the early years of his career spent working as a producer, remixer, orchestrator, and arranger with icons such as Robert Plant, Blur, and Beverly Knight, and Erykah Badu.
Sheridan’s continued success in scoring award-winning film and TV drama and documentaries is a result of the close personal rapport he strives to establish with each director and producer. Sheridan is a true collaborator and multi-talented musician.
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