Sam Rapley is a highly experienced composer, orchestrator & music editor working across Film, TV & Games in the UK. He trained at the National Film & Television School and Royal Academy of Music and has worked across a broad range of prolific studio series and films. He also performs and records internationally as a saxophonist & clarinetist.

Sam’s recent credits include composing additional music for Sony Pictures feature film Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire alongside Academy Award winner Dario Marianelli, BBC’s hit nature series Kingdom, narrated by Sir David Attenborough and Sky Nature series Airborne, narrated by Keeley Hawes. He has scored several award-winning short films, most notably Spring Roll Dream which premiered at Cannes Film Festival and was awarded the prestigious Lights on Women Award by Kate Winslet, and 3 Promises which premiered at Doc NYC and was a semi-finalist for a student Academy Award. Other credits include music programming on Warner Bros. Wonka and music editing on several series including Sky TV’s Atomic, hit Netflix series Bodies and BBC’s Ludwig.

Sam has also written music for several children’s productions, including the Mattel & Wildbrain series Polly Pocket: Sparkle Cove and CBBC’s Biff & Chip Series 2 & 3, which he scored alongside composer Mark Russell.

As an orchestrator, Sam regularly works on high profile film & TV projects, as well as writing and arranging for many of the country’s leading orchestras and ensembles. Recent projects include orchestrating on HBO / BBC’s His Dark Materials: Season 3 and BBC Studio’s The Primrose Railway Children, arranging strings for Chesney Hawkes’ live performance on BBC Radio 2’s Children in Need and being commissioned to write pieces for both the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra as part of BBC Sounds Music & Meditation Podcast. He regularly collaborates with BBC Radio and has written theme tunes for The Music & Meditation Podcast and Essential Classics Mix, as well as arranging a piece for the 2022 Radio 3 In Tune Christmas Special, which brought together critically acclaimed singer Laufey, Connaught Brass, the Albion String Quartet and Echo Choir.

Upon graduating from the NFTS, Sam was awarded the prestigious Avid prize for Excellence in Composition and was mentored by Dario Marianelli. He is currently a BAFTA Connect member. As well as composing for Film, TV & Games, Sam writes music for his own band, Fabled and regularly performs as a saxophonist & clarinetist with the likes of Alfa Mist, Waaju, Misha Mullov-Abbado & Jordan Rakei.