COMPOSER. MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST. RECORDING ARTIST

A historical illustration of Napoleon Bonaparte riding a horse.. The image has the text 'NOISER' at the top and 'NAPOLEON' at the bottom. Dorry Macaulay wrote music for this series.
Dorry Macaulay has composition credits for the TV series 'Passenger' which was aired on ITV and ITVX and Britbox. Dorry recorded all the strings for this series. Violinist. Violist. Keaton Henson.
Dorry Macaulay composed the theme tune for this audio book of Sherlock Holmes. This series is on BBC Sounds and narated by Hugh Bonneville
The artwork for There and Gone Soth street. A Podcast series that Dorry composed the theme tune for and the sound track. Series by Glass Entertainment
Cover art for a survival stories podcast titled 'NOISER REAL SURVIVAL STORIES' featuring snowy mountains, a person with a snowboard, and a smoky signal in a winter landscape.
Dorry Macaulay composers and records music for 'Titanic'. A series by 'Noiser' podcast network
Sony logo in white text on a black background.
Cover art for the Spotify podcast 'Scotland Yard Confidential' featuring a figure with a torch in front of a dark, foggy London cityscape.
Dorry Macaulay workshopped the strings for the film supernova with Colin firth and Stanley Tucci
Promotional poster for the TV series "Outlaws" featuring three characters in period costumes, with the central figure wearing a fedora hat with the word "NOISER" printed on it, and the title "Real Outlaws" at the bottom.
Dorry is a recording artist for 'Keaton Henson'
Dorry Macaulay plays violin with 'Garage Classical ' with artists 'Graig David', Artful Dodger' , 'MJ Cole', So 'Solid Crew' .
Dorry Macaulay has recorded violin for Isobel Waller Bridge. BBC's Agatha Christie series 'Towards Zero'
Lacoste logo featuring a green crocodile with an open mouth and red tongue, with the brand name in black below.
A woman with pink hair holding a yellow telephone, surrounded by purple mist, with text promoting the 'Haunting with Lauren Lapkus' podcast.
Dorry violist, Viola and cello player for this program on radio 4 narated by Tony Robinson
Dorry played lead violin in this advert for the The Wildlife Trust. Narated by David Attenborough
Broken glass with two wedding rings and the word 'BETRAYAL' in bold letters, promotional material for a podcast.
Dorry composed the music for a series of adverts for Sony in collaboration with Tough Mudder. She recorded all the strings and all intruments for the adverts.
Dorry Macaulay composes and records much of the music for 'Short History of'
Decorative house-shaped sign with the text 'The Curious History of Your Home' on a pink background.
Cover art for the Spotify original podcast 'Real Pirates' featuring a collage of a skull, a person with a mustache, and nautical map elements with prominent green text.
A military landing craft with soldiers on board, approaching a coastline at sunset, with a boat visible in the water. The text overlay reads 'D-Day: The Tide Turns' and 'NOISER' at the top.
Red circular logo for Disaster Emergency Committee with the acronym 'DEC' in the center, surrounded by the words 'Disasters Emergency Committee' in a circular arrangement.
Book cover titled 'Ancient Civilisations' by Noiser featuring ancient structures and artifacts, including pyramids, statues, and monuments set against a sunset sky.
A smiling man holding a mugshot-style sign with numbers 128482 against a yellow background, with the words NOISER and REAL NARCO'S written above and below the image.
BMW logo with blue and white quarters on a black background.
Dorry Macaulay Composes much of the sound track and some theme tunes for 'Real Dictators '
Cover art for Spotify original podcast 'Deathbed Confessions' featuring ECG heart monitor lines and the title text.
Logo of Tough Mudder featuring an orange flame and silhouette of a person running

"There is no other way to put it: Working with Dorry is an absolute joy. Whether the brief is one line or one page, she is able to get to the heart of the story with her music prowess and eye for detail" 

Paul Cheung / Director / Fight Gravity Films

"I run a company called Mad Planet composing for films, trailers and TV commercials. I have worked with Dorry on numerous occasions and most importantly she has always immediately got the brief and returned work more often earlier then required. The standard of her playing is second to none"

Sam Morris / Company director / Mad Planet LTD

Testimonials

Dorry Macaulay / Violinist / Noiser / Podcast / composer / music

Dorry studied violin at The Yehudi Menuhin School and the Royal Academy of Music. She studied composition with Malcolm Singer and Dominic Muldowney.

She is a multi-instrumentalist composer who specialises in recording strings - violin, viola and cello.

Her current role as ‘Head of Strings’ for multi-award winning podcast network, Noiser involves recording the strings for soundtracks throughout each show and composing hundreds of pieces, including theme tunes for the gold award winning, Real Dictators series. Many of Noiser’s series have been aquired by BBC sounds.

​Her compositions have been used on the TV show Britain's Got Talent and for the ITV documentary 'A Very British Appeal' about the Disasters Emergency Committee, hosted by Rageh Omaar.

She has composition credits for the TV series 'Passenger' (ITV, ITVX and Britbox in March 2024), and for ITV America and channel 5’s 'The real story of the Boston Strangler' (2019).​

​In June 2024 she​ wrote the theme song and much of the sound track for 'There and Gone: South Street' , A podcast by Glass Entertainment. 

​Recent compositions include theme tunes for an audio book of Sherlock Holmes short stories narrated by Hugh Bonneville ​​​​​​​​​and for an upcoming audio book of Pride and prejudice narated by Julie Andrews. ​

Other clients have included Sony, BMW (music for the award winning 'Drive To Succeed' series), Spotify original podcasts, Tough Mudder, Lacoste, The Wildlife Trust and Tearfund.

​As well as writing and recording her own music, Dorry records strings for singer-songwriters and composers writing for radio, TV and film. She has worked with Keaton Henson for many years on multiple projects including workshopping the strings for the film Supernova and she recently recorded violin and viola for his album Somnambulant Cycles including the lead single ‘Try’.

Other artists and companies Dorry has recorded for include Isobel Waller Bridge ( BBC's Agatha Christie series 'Towards Zero'), Benji Merrison, Katie Chatburn, Lifford Shillingham, Mad Planet LTD, Fight Gravity Films, Strings and Tins. Her string recordings have been broadcast on TV and Radio including on Comcast, NBC, SKY TV, E4, BBC Radio 2, 4 and 6, BBC 1 and 4, ITV, ITV America, ITV X, TBN and Britbox.

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