Ben Foster

Foster as he appeared on Torchwood Declassified

Ben Foster was the composer for most of the episodes of the BBC Wales version of Torchwood. However, he is perhaps more prominent as the conductor and orchestrator of Murray Gold's compositions for Doctor Who. In this capacity he has been highly visible on every BBC Music Doctor Who co-production, such as the Doctor Who at the Proms events.

Foster began his Doctor Who conducting and orchestrating roles in 2006 when Murray Gold decided it would be ideal to write music at a full orchestral level to suit for the show's growing popularity and need for a melodic style. Foster was assigned to orchestrate for, and conduct the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

He appeared as himself in the 2008 Doctor Who at the Proms during the live showing of Music of the Spheres.

He also had the idea of, appeared in and was the executive producer for The Next(ish) Doctor.

Foster departed from his Doctor Who conductor and orchestrating roles after Series 9 in 2016, leaving Murray Gold as the sole composer and arranger for Series 10 onwards. The reasons for Foster's departure are unknown, but it is now thought Murray Gold has since been left with limited access to a proper orchestra to perform his music, and so instead, like his Series 1 music, has had to rely much on sampled instruments.

Credits

Conductor and orchestrator

• The Almost People
• Amy's Choice
• The Angels Take Manhattan
• Asylum of the Daleks
• Backstage at the Doctor Who Prom
• Before the Flood
• The Bells of Saint John
• The Big Bang
• The Caretaker
• A Christmas Carol
• Closing Time
• Cold War
• The Curse of the Black Spot
• Dark Water
• The Day of the Doctor
• Day of the Moon
• Death in Heaven
• Deep Breath
• Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
• The Doctor's Wife
• The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe
• The End of Time
• Face the Raven
• Flatline
• The Girl Who Died
• The Girl Who Waited
• The God Complex
• A Good Man Goes to War
• Hide
• The Hungry Earth
• The Impossible Astronaut
• In the Forest of the Night
• Into the Dalek
• Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
• Kill the Moon
• Last Christmas
• Let's Kill Hitler
• Listen
• The Lodger
• The Magician's Apprentice
• Mummy on the Orient Express
• The Name of the Doctor
• Night Terrors
• Nightmare in Silver
• The Pandorica Opens
• The Power of Three
• The Rebel Flesh
• The Rings of Akhaten
• Robot of Sherwood
• The Snowmen
• Time Heist
• The Time of the Doctor
• A Town Called Mercy
• Under the Lake
• The Wedding of River Song
• The Witch's Familiar
• The Woman Who Lived

Composer

• Adam
• Adrift
• Captain Jack Harkness
• Children of Earth: Day Five
• Children of Earth: Day Four
• Children of Earth: Day One
• Children of Earth: Day Three
• Children of Earth: Day Two
• Combat
• Countrycide
• Day One
• A Day in the Death
• Dead Man Walking
• End of Days
• Exit Wounds
• Fragments
• From Out of the Rain
• Ghost Machine
• Greeks Bearing Gifts
• Meat
• Out of Time
• Random Shoes
• Reset
• Sleeper
• Small Worlds
• Something Borrowed
• They Keep Killing Suzie
• To the Last Man

External links

• Ben Foster at the Internet Movie Database