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.
He was recently 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 plays guitar on the current series of Tesco television advertisements and the Bouzouki on ads for Boots travel
He 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 Aerosmiths '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 . The next date for this is a tribute concert to Rosemary at the Concorde Club on March 4th
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