Terry Oldfield (innate 1949) is a British Composer. He is brother to swell known music composers & performing artist Mike Oldfield and Sally Oldfield. Oldfield was natural around London, England and spent his early childhood in Reading, later attending the Benedictine Monastery School. His earliest musical lives were in a myriad of folk clubs spring-higher around the UK in the late 60s & early 70s, hearing to the songs of Leonard Cohen, Bert Jansch, John Renbourne, Bob Dylan.

Terry left school at Xvi to travel a world & worked as a roadie for various elastic including the Byrds, setting-up stage & healthy intermixture systems. When you took a long stay the Greek island of Hydra, he took up his number one instrument, a flute. "I think it was learning to play in this way, with no formal guidance, that allowed me to develop the ability to compose music. I spent many happy days improvising tunes and discovering scales and arpeggios for myself, and soon started to teach myself to write these things down". Terry's lone formal music expert training was within Agra, India where he spent occasionally instance learning to play a Tablas.

In the early 70s, Terry & his brother Microphone formed the band known as 'Barefoot' swimming rock'north'roll at colleges & clubs throughout a UK. Microphone late went in to record a extremely successful 'Tubular Bells' & late Terry played a flute in a illustrious survive performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London.

Terry's career began in the earnest once he was asked per BBC to compose music for scenes known as Great Railway Journeys of the World. Since so Terry has composed music for concluded L film & TV productions, getting ii Emmy nominations for L& of the Tiger and Twilight of the Dreamtime and the BAFTA nomination for the BBC series Kingdom of the Ice Bear. He likewise worked inside Meerkats United, which in the recent National Television Poll was voted 'Right Wildlife Film Ever'.

Terry has got the relationship sustaining Up to date Globe Music, one of the world's leading 'Globe' music labels, for ended Ten years & has the back catalogue of terminated Xv recordings. His act contains an tremendous range of ideas & influences & has sold all over One million units worldwide.

Presently Terry has been searching at fresh directions to choose his music. "Recently I have found the advent of Global music very inspiring. Especially the Amnesty International Concerts". Terry's first releases by using Up to date Globe Music may reflect this newly counsel & without doubt increase his already considerable as a result.

Easily known for his prolific operate within film & TV soundtracks, including a Emmy award nominated National Geographic specials: "Land of the Tiger" and "Twilight of the Dream Time" & his BAFTA nominated "Kingdom of the Ice Bear".

Around 2001, Terry moved to Australia.

Albums

In Lookup of the Trojan War 1982 Sunshine Holidays 1983 Cascade 1986 Reverence 1986 Return to Treasure Island 1987 In a Presence of Weak 1987 Resonance 1988 Star of Heaven 1989 Spirit of the Rainforest 1990 Angel 1990 Zen 1991 Illumination 1992 Spiral Waves 1992 Out of the Depths 1993 Spirit of Africa 1993 Australia 1994 Spirit of Tibet 1994 Earth Spirit 1995 Icon 1995 Theme for the Telford Period Machine 1996 Spirit of India 1996 South East Asia 1997 All A Lakes Gold 1999 Music for Wildlife 2000 Reflections - A Better of Terry Oldfield 1985-1995, 2000 Across a Universe 2000 Spirit of the Globe 2000 Turning Point 2002 A Period for Peace 2003 Yoga Harmony 2004 Celt 2004 De Profundis / Away from a Depths Deuce 2005