Colin is one of the leading commercial musicians in the UK with over fifty years of experience at the forefront of the UK music scene both as a player (guitar) and arranger in addition to scoring music for films, television and commercial advertising.
Recently recorded the soundtrack for the HBO film "Special Relationship" with LA based French composer Alexandre Desplat at Abbey Road Studios. The film debuts on US television in May and is due on screen in Europe in September 2010
On 20th March 2010 appearing at Bedford Civic Theatre with West End star Christian Gibson (Kiss Me Kate , Thoroughly Modern Millie) in his new One Man Show
Featured guitarist on an album of music by the legendary German composer the late Bert Kaempfert produced by Bert's daughter Marion. Colin has had a long association with the Kaempfert orchestra since its reformation by Marion after Bert's sad demise. Also featured with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in an evening of the music of ABBA!!!
Toured with Gavin Sutherland's Orchestra in the sell out UK tour with Strictly Come Dancing stars Erin Boag and Anton de Beck where Colin's guitar was featured in a special arrangement of Jerome Kern's beautiful melody 'All the things you Are'. More recently worked with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra playing Charlie Chaplin's music for his film 'The Circus' conducted by Carl Davies. More work with Debbie Wiseman in some highly exposed acoustic guitar on her music for the BBC TV drama production 'After the Break'
He was also featured soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at their 'Filmharmonic' concert at the Royal Albert Hall where he played 'Cavatina', Stanley Myers beautiful theme from the classic film 'The Deerhunter'. In Autumn 2008 he recorded Debbie Wiseman's music for Stephen Fry's new series 'Fry in America' having previously been featured in Debbie's score for 'Jekyll'; he also recorded the music for the remake of Brideshead Revisited.
Colin currently plays guitar on the Tesco television advertisements and Bouzouki on ads for Boots travel
He also played on the soundtrack of the Warner Bros feature film "Fool's Gold" starring Donald Sutherland, Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. The music was written by award winning composer George Fenton and features loads of guitar and was released in UK in April 2008
Also in December Colin recorded the Graham Norton New Year's Eve television show 'The Big Finish' playing some speedy blue-grass picking on a version of 'Viva Las Vegas' featuring 5 Elvis tribute acts, a heavy version of Aerosmith's 'Walk This Way' and banjo in 'All That Jazz' from the musical 'Chicago' ... pretty varied stuff.
In the run up to Christmas he also played guitar for Jonathan Cohen's (remember 'Play Away'?) Christmas Concert at the Royal Albert Hall with the London Concert Orchestra.
Still enjoying working with the Brian Dee Quartet accompanying Rosemary Squires on her shows 'Swing is in the Air', 'Gigs, Giggles and Gossip' and 'It's the Fifties' which also stars New Faces winning vocalist Jeff Hooper . Next date with Rosemary is in Epsom on April 21st
Colin's original compositions for films and television can currently be heard in over 24 counties worldwide.
Other recent work includes several Royal Variety Performance si, ITV's "Stars In Their Eyes" (several series and live Finals) and on major Movies, "Big Fish", "Troy" and HBO's "The Life & Death of Peter Sellers" the Montreux prize-winning film.
Colin was Musical Director for Dame Shirley Bassey for 8 years from June 1995. In that capacity he has conducted orchestras in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Norway, Belgium and the UK. His musical career began with Billy Fury and he has worked as Musical Director for Eddie Calvert, Georgie Fame and Alan Price. Producer of Ms Bassey's two recent albums, "The Diamond Collection" and "The Birthday Concert", the latter of which was nominated for a Grammy award!
He has arranged and conducted film music for "Entertaining Mr Sloane" and "The Garnett Saga" with Georgie Fame and "O Lucky Man" with Alan Price, a film in which he also appeared.
Top rated guitarist since 1959, he has recorded on albums and singles by such diverse artists as Elton John, Diana Ross, Paul Simon, Tom Jones, Kiri te Kawana, Gene Vincent, Jose Carreras, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Bjork!
He has played on film scores for many composers including:- Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, Paul McCartney, Andre Previn, Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, George Fenton, John Barry, Howard Shore, John Williams, and James Horner.
He lives in South Oxfordshire with his wife Christine and son Morgan where he teaches his Reactive Guitar Method. Christine is an artist and has her own website at http://www.christinefertey.co.uk/
Any enquiries contact: info@colingreen.co.uk or telephone (+44)1235 811850