A HEREFORD man is celebrating after scooping an award for composing the music for the trailer to blockbuster movie The Theory of Everything.

Samuel Bohn picked up a Music and Sound Award (MAS) for his work on the British biographical coming-of-age romantic drama about Stephen Hawking.

And the 27-year-old said he did not know he had even been nominated for an award until he received a call from his agent.

He said: "I was just blown away to be nominated especially against the other nominees who were amazing. It was enough for me really. I didn't need to win it in the end."

But, at an awards bash at glitzy London venue Cafe de Paris, Mr Bohn discovered he was the winner.

"I was just sat at the table with other people and the category came up," he said.

"They called out my name and my leg started to go and I couldn't stop shaking. It was like something had taken over my body."

And while he might now have his own studio in London's fashionable Notting Hill district, Mr Bohn said his love for music began at the Bishop of Hereford's Bluecoat School.

He said: "It all really stemmed from those school years playing in a school band at Bishop's and enjoying it from a performance level and then going into the composition side of things."

The musician, who also composed the trailer for The Water Diviner, starring Russell Crowe, and music for E4's Inbetweeners spin-off, Drifters, also went to Hereford Sixth Form College before going to the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford.

And the award-winner has said he won't let the success go to his head and is determined to keep progressing.

"Although I have won the award I see it as another building block in progressing to the next stage and I think these things are markers to let you know that you are progressing and not going backwards," he added.