Craig McConnell's musical dimensions include discovery, exploration, risk-taking, and the rhythms of the human heart. In addition to being a brilliant performer, guitarist, and vocalist, he is also a composer and lyricist known for writing music with extreme dynamics, poignant melodies, and depth of emotion. Craig's music appears in feature films, documentaries, and TV commercials, and with the rich traditions and hauntingly beautiful music of his native Scotland, his sonic embrace is deep and wide.
Craig McConnell is an accomplished rock guitarist, film composer, and something of a “chameleon” within the world of music. Working in an impressive variety of styles and genres, Rock, Jazz Fusion, New Age and Classical, are but some of his many musical colours. His artistry reaches far beyond the realms of the technically and musically accomplished guitarist, for he has enjoyed international success as a composer and arranger for Film, Television, and live performance -- having composed music for productions worldwide.
Having spent 5 years in the US, Craig relocated to Switzerland in 2005 where he worked as a professional musician and film composer, having scored music for films featuring the work of the Swiss world leading extreme sportswoman Géraldine Fasnacht (“Dessine-Moi Une Ligne”, “Une Femme Choucas”, "La Haute Route des Pentes Raides" and "Holtanna, l'Aventure Antarctique").
He passed away on June 22, 2011 after having fought ALS with great courage. Let his great spirit live and spread forerver through his beautiful music...
Slow, evocative, New Age atmospheric track transports the listener to the heart of the mist-covered Andes and ancient Peruvian Inca civilisations of South America, featuring pan flute, rain stick in a contempory musical setting. Ideal for travel, cultural, historic documentaries, film, TV, National, Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
Reflective, sad, profound rock ballad featuring evocative electric guitar with male vocal. Guitar and vocal performed by Craig McConnell. Male Vocals, Dramatic, Sad Music
Evocative new age music with strong percussive rhythm, Andean flute and ethnic male and female vocal chants and drones conveying a sense of freedom and new discovery. Ideal for travel, cultural, historic documentaries and film/TV productions on the natural world. Suitable for Film/TV, Mixed Vocals, Dramatic, Energizing Music
Purposeful, driving, high energy, optimistic, focused and fast instrumental music conveying a sense of achievement, success, freedom, and powerful drive. Suitable for Film/TV, corporate movies, travel and sports documentaries, Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
Elegant and mysterious 9-minute track for relaxation and healing. Peaceful, meditative, spiritual, serene, and beautiful track with soprano vocals evoking the sacred snow white summits of the high Himalayas. Suitable for Film/TV, meditation travel film, documentary. Soaring, elegant, and dreamy. Female Vocals, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
Warm, melodic, soothing, reflective, relaxing synth based medium-slow instrumental track created for looping. Suited for travel, vacation, family, film/TV and documentaries. Instrumental, Dramatic, Heartwarming Music
Romantic Elegance, so silky sweet it could set the scene for a beautiful love story. Gentle, sensuous, an evening at The Ritz or shopping at Tiffany's. Reflective, very laid back, creamy smooth Jazz featuring piano & sax. Candlelight Warmth Love. Suitable Film/TV Advertising, high fashion or design. Instrumental, Dramatic, Romantic Music
Magical, majestic orchestral track featuring beautiful soprano voice suggesting a regal bastion reaching towards the heavens. A delicate horn intro leads into a suspenseful harp and an inevitable orchestral climax. A gong signals the final dramatic build up and conclusion. Ideal for film/TV and doc. Female Vocals, Dramatic, Regal Orchestral
Bright, flowing, reassuring, sincere instrumental track featuring the acoustic piano on a subtle backdrop of choirs, orchestral strings and brass. Suitable for Film/TV. Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
Delicate, floating airy pads drift in an infinite shimmering space with beautiful serene female vocals. Suitable for Film/TV, Female Vocals, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
An intricate and subtle instrumental track of weaving breathy synth pads, piano and strings take the listener on a journey rich with flavours of the Orient and the Far East. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
Slow ethnic electronic New Age rhythmic track with a slight sense of forebodîng featuring orchestra string section and choirs. Ideal for travel, cultural, historic, extreme sports documentaries and film/TV. Instrumental, Dramatic, Electronic Music
Reflective, spacey, sensitive, retrospective minimalistic track featuring the piano. Suitable for Film/TV. Edgy reflective flashbacks, reviewing life, watching a baby sleeping, caring for elderly mom or dad. Daydreaming about the future, studying a memory, deciding what really happened, was it real? Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
Shimmering and dancing, bright sonic loops carry a melodic, soaring bamboo flute in this new age instrumental track. Suitable for Film/TV Advertising. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
Purposeful, optimistic, orchestral/electronic cue conveying a strong sense of discovery, freedom and adventure incorporating the sound of the natural world and its elements, ie. wind, snow and ice. Orchestral brass on a spacey backdrop. Ideal for adventure, travel, cultural docs and film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
Positive, grand, regal and triumphant orchestral cue with a contemporary rhythm. Featuring French horn, timpani and bells. Suited for film/tv, corporate and documentaries. Instrumental, Dramatic, Regal Orchestral
An up-tempo, purposeful, optimistic, energizing and motivating instrumental track featuring electronic drumbeat and synthesizers. Ideal for film/TV, travel documentaries, sports and corporate movies. Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
Purposeful, optimistic, uplifting orchestral cue conveying a strong sense of ascent and conquest, including assertive percussion and large choral section. Ideal for adventure, travel, cultural, historic documentaries and film/TV. Discovering being in love, exciting, reaching, filled with hope. Mixed Vocals, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
A mid-tempo purposeful, optimistic, dramatic and motivating instrumental track featuring electronic drumbeat and synthesizers, evolving into an orchestral bridge of epic proportions. Ideal for film/TV, Olympic sports and corporate movies. Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
Grandiose, Regal, Glittering, and pompous orchestral track of truly epic proportions featuring the power of the full symphony orchestra and conveying a sense of achievement, victory, adventure and discovery. Suitable for Film/TV. Instrumental, Dramatic, Regal Orchestral
Driving, optimistic, dynamic hard rock track with male vocals and soaring electric guitar solo. Lyrically optimistic and confident conveying a sense of freedom and personal achievement. Male Vocals, Dramatic, Energizing Music
Rustic, rural, earthy, honest, Country instrumental track featuring the banjo, acoustic guitar and harmonica. Suitable for Film/TV Advertising. Instrumental, Dramatic, Happy Music
A light intro builds to a determined, bold, confident and melodic instrumental track featuring piano and strings. Suitable for Film/TV Advertising. Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
A tense acoustic piano intro and outro establish the ominous conclusion of this dramatic and dark orchestral track. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
A gentle, Summer filled, reflective orchestral track conveying a sense of tranquility, fulfillment and contentment. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
A delicately poignant, deeply melodic orchestral track featuring the oboe. Suggesting the ever changing seasons of the countryside. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
A guitar riff driven, full on driving beat pushes orchestral pads and power chords in this determined, uplifting, bold and fast instrumental track concluding with electric guitar solo. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Hectic Music
A light hearted, melodic, optimistic track featuring the oboe, orchestra and synthesizer. Conveying a sense of peace, warmth and contentment. Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Mellow Music
Ambient, tropical atmospheric track suggesting the vast green canopy of the Amazon rain forest. Featuring a warm relaxing slow drum beat with bamboo flutes on a spacey ambient backdrop. Ideal for travel, cultural, historic documentaries and film/TV. Instrumental, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
Optimistic rhythm builds to an orchestral climax giving the sense of ascending a mountain and the end effectively suggesting the grand summit panorama. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
Magical, majestic orchestral track featuring beautiful soprano voice suggesting a regal bastion reaching towards the heavens. A suspenseful harp intro leads to an inevitable and dramatic orchestral climax. Ideal for film/TV and documentaries. This is a 30 second excerpt of the full length track. Female Vocals, Dramatic, Magical Music
Soulful and melancholic instrumental cue featuring French horn and sax solo on a sensitive emotional orchestral backdrop. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Contemplative Music
Evocative dramatic music commencing with a delicate atmosphere, evolving into strong percussive rhythm with orchestral brass, strings and female soprano voice conveying a sense of adventure, freedom and new discovery. Ideal for adventure, travel, cultural, historic documentaries and film/TV, Female Vocals, Dramatic, Energizing Music
Unnerving chaotic choral wash rises to crescendo with orchestra and choirs evolving into a light and elegant harmonic resolution. Suitable for Film/TV, Female Vocals, Dramatic, Magical Music
Beautiful, serene, mystical, graceful, elegant, inspirational track with mezzo soprano lead vocals in Greek. This is a musical journey down through the mists of time to the magical adventures of Ulysses ecounter with the Sirens in Greek mythology. Suitable for Film/TV. Female Vocals, Dramatic, Ethereal Music
A forlorn horn introduction leads into an emotionally charged orchestral cue of deep remorse and heart felt sadness and regret. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Sad Music
Cool, smooth jazz, laid back instrumental with electric guitar conveying a slight sense of unease and tension in the atmosphere of the big city at sunset. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Calm Edgy
Triumphant, glorious, victorious, epic and lively instrumental track with an intro reminiscent of Rome and Greece in Antiquity, featuring orchestral brass, strings, percussion and choirs with a contemporary driving rhythm. Suited for high adventure and action movies. Instrumental, Dramatic, Regal Orchestral
Triumphant, glorious, epic instrumental track with an intro reminiscent of Rome and Greece in Antiquity, with orchestral brass, strings, percussion and choirs with a contemporary driving rhythm. Suited for high adventure/action movies. This is a 15 second up tempo excerpt of the full length track. Instrumental, Dramatic, Regal Orchestral
An airy and slightly melancholic oboe melody suggesting the dance of the autumn leaves as they ride the fall breeze and drift down a babbling brook, featuring grand piano, flute and French horn. Suitable for TV commercials, films and documentaries. Instrumental, Dramatic, Romantic Music
A lighthearted and inspiring moderately fast orchestral track with a strong military brass band flavour. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Regal Orchestral
Spontaneous bluesy jazzy electric guitar and piano instrumental music with spacey, subtle intensity. Suitable for Film/TV, Instrumental, Dramatic, Smooth Music