{{No footnotes|date=August 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Paul Mounsey | image = | caption = | image_size = | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = | alias = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|4|15|df=yes}} | birth_place = Scotland | death_date = | origin = | instrument = | genre = [[Celtic fusion]], [[film scores]], [[Music of Brazil|Brazilian music]] | occupation = Musician, composer, arranger, record producer | years_active = 1985–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = }}
'''Paul Mounsey''' (born 15 April 1959) is a [[Scottish people|Scottish]] musician, composer, arranger and record producer.
A graduate of [[Trinity College, London]], where he studied with [[Richard Arnell]], Mounsey has composed for film, television, theatre, and television commercials, as well as the concert hall and the Latin American pop market. He has written pop hits for Mexican boy bands, received commissions for concert and multimedia works, lived with and recorded the music of indigenous communities in the Amazon rainforest, and has released five solo albums. Paul Mounsey collaborated with composers John Powell, Henry Jackman and Danny Elfman. He is currently based in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]], United States, working as composer, orchestrator and programmer in the film industry.
Mounsey's fifth album, ''Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad (The Days Flash Past)'', was commissioned to celebrate the opening, in September 2005, of the [[An Lanntair]] Arts Centre in [[Stornoway]] on the [[Isle of Lewis]], [[Scotland]].
== Discography == === Solo albums === * ''[[Nahoo]]'' (1994) * ''[[NahooToo]]'' (1997) * ''Nahoo 3 – Notes from the Republic'' (1999) * ''[[City of Walls]]'' (2003) * ''Tha Na Laithean a' Dol Seachad (The Days Flash Past)'' (2005)
=== With Runrig === * ''[[Proterra (album)|Proterra]]'' (2003)
== References == * [http://www.folkworld.de ''Folk World'' magazine] * [http://www.allcelticmusic.com ''All Celtic Music'' article] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707220043/http://www.bdimusic.com/Images/Composers/CV/1014.pdf ''BDi Music'' composer profile]
== External links == * {{IMDb name|id=1633633|name=Paul Mounsey}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100117105148/http://www.bdimusic.com/Composer.aspx?ComposerID=1014 BDi Music Composer Biography] * [http://audio.urcm.net/spip.php?article551 Planeta Musical Sur] * [http://www.folkworld.de/13/e/nahoo.html Folk World interview] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110424103129/http://www.greenmanreview.com/cd/cd_mounsey_cityofwalls.html Green Man Review] * [{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p146041|pure_url=yes}} allmusic entry]
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