In 1996 Adrian Johnston scored his first feature film - Jude - and has subsequently scored more than 20 other features, including Kinky Boots, Lassie, Becoming Jane and Brideshead Revisited .

For television, Adrian has been BAFTA nominated for The Lost Prince, Tipping the Velvet, Perfect Strangers and Our Mutual Friend , and in 2008, a year in which he scored two TV films for Stephen Poliakoff, Joe's Palace and Capturing Mary, the latter won Adrian the BAFTA Television Craft Award 2008, adding to the Emmy he won in 2002 for his score for Shackleton.  Highlights of 2009 included scores for Stephen Poliakoff's film Glorious 39, The Sinking Of The Laconia, a major 2-part drama for the BBC, and the first episode of C4's acclaimed adaptation of David Peace's  Red Riding (1974), which was nominated for both an Ivor Novello Award and a BAFTA in 2010. Adrian's most recently broadcast work was for Exile, starring John Simm and Jim Broadbent.

Adrian has written some 70 scores for diverse theatre companies, including the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, the RSC and National Theatre and has collaborated on several award winning dance projects: Strange Fish and Enter Achilles for DV8, Touched and Birds . Most recently, Adrian scored the highly acclaimed production of  Cause Celebre at the Old Vic and 13, a new play by Mike Bartlett for the National Theatre.

Winner of a 2011 RTS award for his theme to the much-missed tv series Zen, Adrian is currently working on the next Stephen Poliakoff project, Dancing On The Edge, and Thea Sharrock's adaptation of Henry V, both for BBC.