Oliver Weeks is a London-based composer, guitarist and pianist. He studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and composition with Robin Holloway, followed by a PhD in composition from the Royal Academy of Music, London. His music has been performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, the Royal Academy Soloists, the BBC Singers and the Endymion Ensemble. He was Cambridge University Music Society’s inaugural composer-in-residence in 2012.
He has scored two full-length feature film soundtracks: Cat Sticks (Ronny Sen, India 2019), dealing with drug addicts in Kolkata and which premiered at Slamdance 2019 and Rising Silence (Leesa Gazi, Bangladesh / Uk / India 2018), based around the stories of the Birangona, survivors of the mass rape by the Pakistani Army in the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh and which won the ‘Best Documentary’ award at Dhaka International Film Festival 2019.
He is a prolific arranger, working for artists as diverse as Chas & Dave, Elton John, Jonny Greenwood, Keaton Henson, Howard Goodall and Andy Burrows (on the music for David Brent: Life on the Road). He was a founder member the London underground metal band Astrohenge, who put out two albums on the Eyesofsound label in the 2010s. He has also played session keyboards for Pixie Lott.
He has been working with major Bengali artists for 16 years. In 2002, he began working with award-winning singer-songwriter and ethnomusicologist Moushumi Bhowmik. Their work together has included theatre commissions (Walking To The Sun, Prithvi Theatre Mumbai 2010) tours of India and Bangladesh and a full-length album (Songs From 26H, 2016). In 2007, he founded Khiyo with Sohini Alam (also known for her collaborations with Akram Khan on Desh & Until The Lions). Their version of the Bangladeshi national anthem, Amar Shonar Bangla, was released to success and controversy in 2012, and their debut album appeared in 2015 on ARC Music to excellent reviews. In 2017, he was funded by the Arts Council to co-write the crossover opera Nazrul In Vienna with Farrukh Dhondy.
Oliver started composing at the age of six, with the ambitious oratorio The Wanderings Of Odyseuss (sic). Growing up with an equal amount of Chuck Berry and Wagner, he fell in love with the latter in the early 80s through a BBC broadcast of the Boulez/Chéreau centenary Bayreuth Ring cycle. He also absorbed 50s and 60s rock’n’roll influences when, as a pyjama-ed toddler, he was brought along to his father’s gigs at various celebrated venues in the South-West of England, including Gladstone Liberal Club (Chippenham), Marden Flexiplastics Social Club (Midsomer Norton), and Timsbury British Legion.
| Release Date | Artist | Release Title | Label | Instruments | Format | Country | Catalogue No. |
| 22 July 2022 | Khiyo | Bondona | ARC Music | Guitar, Piano, Violin | CD, Album | UK | |
| 13 April 2020 | Oliver Weeks | Cat Sticks OST | Chopper Records | Guitar, Piano, Violin, Harmonica | Digital | UK | CHOP1 |
| 26 September 2018 | Various Artists | Rising Silence OST | Komola Collective | Guitar, Violin, Vocals | CD, Album | UK | |
| 20 April 2018 | Chas & Dave | A Little Bit Of Us | Rockney | Horn Arrangements | CD, Album | UK | COOKCD704 |
| 11 February 2017 | Moushumi Bhowmik | Songs From 26H | Travelling Archive Records | Guitar, Piano | CD, Album | India | |
| 25 January 2017 | Arbovirus | বিশেষ দ্রষ্টব্য | Qinetic Music | String Arrangements, Engineer | CD, Album | Bangladesh | |
| 5 September 2015 | Sahana Bajpaie | Ja Bolo Tai Bolo | Major Music | Guitar | CD, Album | India | |
| 28 April 2015 | Khiyo | Khiyo (aka Bengali Music With A London Sound) | ARC Music | Guitar, Piano | CD, Album | UK | EUCD 2581-1 |
| 27 November 2014 | Annalie Wilson | Open Heart Circus | Undercurrent Records | Guitar, Piano, Hammond Organ | CD, Album | UK | |
| 21 Nov 2011 | Astrohenge | II | Eyesofsound | Piano, Keyboards | CD, Album | UK | EOSCD037 |
| 18 Oct 2010 | Pixie Lott | Turn it up Louder | Mercury | Keyboards | CD, Album | UK & Ireland | Mercury – 2752081 |
| 11 Oct 2010 | Pixie Lott | Broken Arrow | Mercury | Keyboards | CD, Single | UK & Ireland | Mercury – 2753191 |
| 21 Jun 2010 | Astrohenge | Astrohenge | Eyesofsound | Piano, Keyboards, Violin, Accordion, Vocals | CD, Album | UK | EOSCD31 |
| 31 Mar 2006 | Matthew Rozeik | Matthew Rozeik & Ylid Split | Static Caravan | Violin | Cdr, EP, Limited Edition, Cardboard Folder | UK | VAN 111 |