Following several years working as a sound designer and dubbing mixer for Bristol-based TV post-production company Films At 59, Poore began his composing career in 1990 with work for the
BBC Natural History Unit, and was soon providing music for two of the network's main natural history series,
Wildlife on One and
BBC Natural World, whilst also providing music for news and current affairs documentaries for the BBC's Nature department. He went on to provide the score for both
David Attenborough's
Life in Cold Blood, winner of the BAFTA Award for Best Factual Series in 2009, and
Life in the Undergrowth with fellow Bristol composer Ben Salisbury, with whom he also co-wrote
The Nature of Britain series presented by
Alan Titchmarsh. He wrote music for ''
Planet Earth's
accompanying conservation films Planet Earth: The Future''. Poore's TV scores also include the long-running BBC series
Big Cat Diary and a number of BBC nature documentaries,
Orangutan Diary,
Elephant Diaries, and
Chimpanzee Diary with
Charlotte Uhlenbroek.
Notable compositions Poore's work on the BBC's
Springwatch series earned a
Royal Television Society (RTS) nomination in 2007 for the title theme (see Awards and Nominations). He also composed for the BBC series
Earth From Space together with Bristol composer
Neil Davidge, with whom he also co-wrote the score for the BBC's Moon landing 50th anniversary film
8 Days: To The Moon and Back. His music is also featured in Channel 4's
Grand Designs since 2007, and
Dispatches. Poore has also written several series for children including for Disney
Mr Moon, a
CGI space adventure series which has aired worldwide on the
Playhouse Disney Channel since May 2010, and ''
Henry's Amazing Animals, and for the BBC Growing Up Wild''. Poore composed incidental music used in the feature film
Ocean Voyager, narrated by
Meryl Streep, which was subsequently performed in London by the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Selected TV scores • Score for the acclaimed ITV series
In The Wild including films with
Goldie Hawn,
Bob Hoskins and
Christopher Reeve • BBC's
The One Show • ITV's
Celebrity Fit Club • BBC One's
Omnibus •
Degas and the Dance (for
PBS) •
National Geographic series
Africa, •
Mountain Gorilla •
The Secret Life of Elephants •
Tales from the Green Valley He has also written for Bristol-based
Aardman Animations. Poore has recorded with orchestras and musicians from The
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The
BBC Concert Orchestra, and The
Bristol Ensemble, to a selection of solo artists which have included Kit Morgan (guitar), Stuart Gordon (violin), Dirk Campbell (Ethnic Wind Instruments), Dan Newell (trumpet),
Andy Sheppard and
Will Gregory (Saxophone),
Adrian Utley (guitar),
Paul Clarvis (Percussion),
Belinda Sykes and Abbie Lathe (vocals), recording at
Abbey Road Studios and
Air Edel Studios in London, and at Christchurch Studios in Bristol.
Additional work Poore played drums for the live concert of the music for the BBC series ''Nature's Great Events'' performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at Bristol's
Colston Hall in September 2009, and narrated live by Sir
David Attenborough. The music was composed by
Ben Salisbury and
Barnaby Taylor and conducted by
William Goodchild. Poore can also be heard on the critically acclaimed 2008
Portishead album
Third, singing additional vocals on the track "Deep Water" with Ben Salisbury (collectively credited as "The Somerfield Workers Choir"), and Team Brick. ==Awards and nominations==