Dominik Scherrer
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, two further Ivor Novello Nominations: for Amazon’s The Collection, and Marple, where Dominik’s iconic theme runs across all six series. And a second Ivor Novello Award win for 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).
Dominik is currently scoring the upcoming Netflix/ BBC series The Serpent, written by Richard Warlow and Toby Finlay and starring Jenna Coleman and Billy Howle. Other recent scores include the BBC drama film Elizabeth is Missing an adaption of the book by Emma Healey, 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 SERPENT | BBC/ Netflix Directors: Hans Herbots, Tom Shankland Writers: Toby Finlay, Richard Warlow Starring: Jenna Coleman, Billy Howle | |
| ELIZABETH IS MISSING | BBC / STV Directors: Aisling Walsh Writers: Andrea Gibb, Emma Healey (Novel) Producer: Chrissy Skinns Starring: Glenda Jackson, Maggie Steed | |
| 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 |
Commercials
| INCLUDE: AVON, SCOTTISH WIDOWS, RENAISSANCE FILMS, PANASONIC, ROBINSONS FRUIT SHOOT, CARLSBERG |