Most musicians, if they are lucky, will master one craft or field within their career. For Michael Price, he’s managed three, with his music spanning across piano, orchestral and soundtrack work. The soundtrack work – for TV shows such as Sherlock, Dracula, and Unforgotten, and films such as Eternal Beauty, Cheerful Weather and Just Jim – has seen Price win an Emmy, as well as receive countless nominations (including a BAFTA nomination and an Ivor Novello nomination for his work on Dracula, with David Arnold). Price has also worked on hugely eclectic – and revered – projects including X-Men, Band of Brothers, The Iron Giant, as well as working with Metallica on their live S&M album. He also arranged, or wrote additional music, for films such as Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, Casino Royale & Hot Fuzz. His work as a solo artist takes the form of beautiful improvised piano works, as heard on albums like Diary (2017), or via lush, grand, hyper-detailed orchestral work, as heard on critically acclaimed releases via Erased Tapes such as Entanglement (2015) and Tender Symmetry (2018). His last release, The Hope of Better Weather, is rooted in the piano world but also exists as a bridge crossing into new terrain, including reworks and remixes from the likes of Yann Tiersen & Bill Ryder-Jones. The process of putting together the release has been an emboldening and liberating one for Price, which finds him feeling buoyant about the possibilities of what lies ahead… Photo: Phil Sharp