Dominik Scherrer

Dominik Scherrer – Composer Profile

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An extremely fresh, innovative and resourceful composer, Dominik has emerged as one of the most talented score composers of his generation.

His award-winning music can be heard on some of the finest television dramas made in recent years, earning him an Ivor Novello Award and RTS Award Nomination for Ripper Street, a 2015 Primetime Emmy Nomination for The Missing, and three further Ivor Novello Nominations: for Amazon’s The Collection, Marple, where Dominik’s iconic theme runs across all six series, and the fantasy thriller Requiem for BBC/Netflix, on which Dominik collaborated with Natasha Khan, aka Bat for Lashes (“The music and sound effects [..] constitute a revelation: why, when it can be done this well, was it ever done otherwise?” The Guardian).

Recent scores include the 8-part thriller The Widow for ITV/Amazon starring Kate Beckinsale and Charles Dance, BBC’s 7-part thriller Baptiste written by Harry and Jack Williams, and Mammoth Screen’s The City & The City directed by Tom Shankland (“A living, breathing musical creation, with heart and soul and a brain” Soundtrack Dreams).

Equally accomplished in film scoring, Dominik’s credits include Alina Marazzi’s Tutto Parla Di Te (All About You), Scenes of a Sexual Nature starring Ewan McGregor and Hugh Bonneville The Truth, The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (Best Music Award at Spain’s Estapona Film Festival), Alice Through The Looking Glass starring Kate Beckinsale, and Appetite starring Ute Lemper, for whom he also wrote the title song, which reached No. 2 on the UK classical charts.

Dominik has his own avant-garde disco & video art duo and composes performance music for the theatre. He also produces sound design and composition for fine art installations, most notably for artist Suki Chan. As composer/director, he has a new film-opera in development. It follows his kinetic opera for screen ‘Hell For Leather’, which premiered at Sundance and went on to win him 10 awards.

Dominik is a British-Swiss composer who works from his studio in Spitalfields, London.

Further info available at: www.dominikscherrer.com

Film and TV drama

THE WIDOW	Two Brothers Pictures / ITV / Amazon Studios Directors: Oliver Blackburn, Samuel Donovan Producer: Eliza Mellor Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Charles Dance
BAPTISTE	BAPTISTE Two Brothers Entertainment / BBC One Director: Jan Matthys, Börkur Sigpórsson Producer: John Griffin Starring: Tcheky Karyo, Tom Hollander
THE CITY & THE CITY	Mammoth Screen / BBC Director: Tom Shankland Producers: Betsan Morris Evans Starring: David Morrissey, Lava Pulver
REQUIEM Written with Natasha Khan aka Bat for Lashes	BBC One / Netflix / New Pictures Director: Mahalia Belo Producers: Susan Breen Starring: Lydia Wilson	*Nominated for Ivor Novello Best TV Music 2019*
THE COLLECTION	Lookout Point / Amazon Prime Director: Dearbhla Walsh, Dan Zeff Producers: Selwyn Roberts, Kate Croft Starring: Richard Coyle, Mamie Gummer	*Nominated for Ivor Novello Best TV Music 2017*
RIPPER STREET (Series 1 - 5)	BBC / Amazon Prime Directors: Tom Shankland, Andy Wilson, Colm Mcarthy, Christopher Menaul, Kieron Hawkes, Anthony Byrne, Saul Menaul, Luke Watson, Ashley Way, Nick Rowland, Daniel Nettheim Producers: Stephen Smallwood, Lucy Dyke, Joe Donaldson, John Rushton Starring: Matthew Macfadyen, Jerome Flynn, Adam Rothenberg, MyAnna Buring	*Winner Ivor Novello Best TV Music 2014* *RTS Award Nominated for Best Original Score 2013* *Nominated for BAFTA Award Best Series 2013*
THE MISSING (Series 1 & 2)	New Pictures / BBC One / Starz Director: Ben Chanan, Tom Shankland Producer: Julian Stevens, Chris Clough Starring: James Nesbitt, David Morrissey, Frances O’Connor, Tcheky Karyo, Keeley Hawes	*Nominated for Primetime Emmy Best Music for miniseries* * Nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries 2015* * Nominated for OFTA Television Award for Best Music 2015* * Nominated for BAFTA for Best Drama Series 2015*
ONE OF US (AKA RETRIBUTION)	BBC One Director: William McGregor Producer: Colin Wratten Starring: Joe Dempsie, Juliet Stevenson, Adrian Edmondson, Georgina Campbell
AN INSPECTOR CALLS	BBC One Director: Aisling Walsh Producer: Howard Ella Starring: David Thewlis, Ken Stott, Miranda Richardson	*Winner Best Drama, Broadcasting Press Guild Awards*
ALL ABOUT YOU	Mir Cinematografica Director: Alina Marazzi Producers: Gianfilipo Pedote, Francesca Virga, Starring: Charlotte Rampling	*Winner of the Rome Film Fest Golden Camera Awards for Best Emerging Director and Producer 2012*
MARPLE (Series 1 – 6)	ITV / WGBH Boston Directors: Tom Shankland, David Moore, Andy Hay, Jonathan Strickland Charles Palmer, Sarah Harding, Andy Wilson, Hettie MacDonald, Nicholas Renton, Nicolas Winding Refn, Dan Zeff, Moira Armstrong, Ed Hall, Peter Medak, Paul Unwin Producers: Karen Thrussell, Damien Timmer Peter McAleese, Matthew Read Starring: Geraldine McEwan, Julia McKenzie, Hermione Norris, Joanna Lumley, Lindsay Duncan, Hugh Bonneville, Richard E. Grant, Polly Walker, Jane Seymour, Timothy Dalton, Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance	*Ivor Novello 2011 Nomination: Best TV Score* *Winner: Best Music, New York Festival TV Awards* *Nominated for Emmy: Best Special Class Programme*
MONROE (Series 1 & 2)	Mammoth Screen Directors: Paul McGuigan, David Moore Producers: Jennie Scanlon, Howard Ella, Peter Bowker, Michele Buck, Damien Timmer Starring: James Nesbitt, Sarah Parish, Tom Riley
JUST HENRY	ITV Productions Directors: David Moore Producers: Paul Frift Starring: John Henshaw, Josh Boult, Sheila Hancock
CHRISTOPHER AND HIS KIND	Mammoth Screen / BBC Director: Geoffrey Sax Producer: Celia Duval Starring: Matt Smith, Imogen Poots	* Nominated for Best Single Drama 2012 Press Guild Awards*
U BE DEAD	Darlow Smithson Director: Jamie Payne Producer: Elinor Day Starring: David Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald
INSPECTOR GEORGE GENTLY (Series 3)	Granada / WGBH Boston Directors: Daniel O'Hara Producer: Suzan Harrison
RIPRENDIMI (US title "Good Morning Heartache")	Bess Movie Rome Director: Anna Negri Producer: Francesca Neri	*Nominated for the Sundance 2008 Grand Jury Prize* Winner: Grenoble Festival 2008 Jury Prize Premio Sergio Leone 2008: Winner for Best Film
LIFE LINE	Carnival Film / BBC Director: Jamie Payne Producer: Tim Bradley Cast: Ray Stevenson, Joanne Whalley
PRIMEVAL (Series 1, 2 & 3)	Impossible Pictures/ITV Directors: Cilla Ware, Jamie Payne, Mark Everest, Andrew Gunn, Nick Murphy, Richard Curson Smith, Tony Mitchell, Matthew Thompson. Producers: Cameron McAllister, Tim Bradley, Paul Frift Starring: Douglas Henshall, Ben Miller Jason Flemyng	*Nominated Best TV Series Satellite Awards 2008*
DRACULA	Granada/BBC Director: Bill Eagles Producer: Trevor Hopkins Starring: Marc Warren, Sophia Myles, David Suchet
SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE	Mob Films/ Tinpan Films Director: Ed Blum Producers: Ed Blum, Vadim John Starring: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Bonneville, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo
TWO FAMILIES	Parallel Pictures Director: Romano Scavolini Producers: Lee Chamberlain, Francesco Papa Starring: Franco Nero, Richard Johnson
THE TRUTH	2ManyExecutives Director: George Milton Producer: Julie - Anne Edwards Cast: Elizabeth McGovern Starring: Elaine Cassidy, Elizabeth McGovern
IF I HAD YOU	Granada Director: John Deery Producer: Karen Thrussell Cast: Paul McGann, Sarah Parish
JERICHO	Granada/ WGBH Boston Director: Nick Renton, Diarmuid Lawrence, Tom Shankland Producer: Cameron McAllister Starring: Francesca Annis, Jane Horrocks, Robert Lindsay
THE HONEYTRAP	Filmhouse Ltd Director: Michael Gunther Producer: Madeleine Lim Starring: Emily Lloyd
THE NINE LIVES OF TOMAS KATZ	Strawberry Vale Films Director: Ben Hopkins Producer: Caroline Hewitt	*Winner Best Music Award: Estapona Film Festival* *Winner: Evening Standard Award*
L’ALTRA DONNA	Cineteam / RAI Director: Anna Negri Producer: Aldo Raparelli
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS	Projector Pictures Director: John Henderson Producer: Trevor Eve, Simon Johnson Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm, Steve Coogan
IN PRINCIPIO ERANO LE MUTANDE	Mastro Film Rome Director: Anna Negri Producer: Andrea Borella
APPETITE	J&M Entertainment Director: George Milton Producer: Charly Cantor, Simon Johnson Cast: Trevor Eve, Ute Lemper

Documentaries & Miscellaneous

WE CAN MAKE YOU TALK	Tiger Aspect Director: Ed Blum Producer: Charles Brand
FOOTPRINTS	Tiger Lily Director: Ben Hopkins
HELL FOR LEATHER (Film/Opera)	Hell Ltd Written by Dominik Scherrer	Winner of 10 awards including Best Score Mediawave, Grand Prix Nevers, Prix Action Light Locarno