Freddie Macready Mercer

Freddie is a composer, songwriter and music producer for film, tv and games, sync, artist projects and original self-releases. He is also a professional vocalist, toplining for commercials, artist, producer and sync projects as well as a vocal coach and arranger, whilst teaching a select set of students weekly in his studio in Surrey. 

Recently Freddie helped conduct and produce recording sessions for the Mission Impossible: final reckoning film at Pinewood Studios and contributed vocals to the score for The Witcher series composed by Joe Trapanese (Tron, Oblivion) and Max Grey. He has scored the short film ‘Defenders of the Tyrhannean Sea' by Jack Shanks which has won 5 awards, ‘Homecoming’, a gripping psychological drama that delves into the struggles of reintegration, redemption and the pull of the past directed by Will Pope and a music video collaboration ‘Forever Requieme’ with Shivam Pota, where he wrote an original track that the film is based upon. Also, he scored Pota’s 'Winter' film that premiered at the BFI as part of the UK Asian Film Festival’s Short Film Showcase.

A little more about…

Freddie was born in Frome, Somerset and attended Downside Abbey and Westminster Cathedral as a choral scholar. Having travelled around the world in a chamber choir performing the works of Faure, Byrd and Palestrina he has sung in some of the most prestigious buildings, from St Paul’s cathedral, Frauenkirche church in Munich to St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, Rome. After studying Opera at Morley and the National Opera Studio under Mary Hill (RCM/RAM), Freddie took all his training and inspirations and threw himself into writing and performing his own music by attending the Academy of Contemporary Music. Since then, he's worked as studio assistant to Kipper, Stings producer and has written and produced original compositions at the world famous AIR Studios where countless film scores are made. 

Freddie also has had a life long passion for teaching, and helps his students with composition and music production as well as singing and piano from his studio. 

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