Dominik Scherrer
As
an extremely colourful and original composer, Dominik is now emerging
as one of the most talented film composers of his generation. His
recent scores include the supernatural love story Life
Line, directed by Jamie Payne for the BBC, and the
eerily haunting score for the new reworking of Dracula
for Granada/BBC, which starred David Suchet and Marc Warren.
Dominik produced the score for the hugely successful Primeval
(series 1 & 2), as well as Agatha
Christie's Marple (Series 1 to 5). He recently completed
the forthcoming series of Inspector George Gently
for the BBC and is currently scoring Christopher and
His Kind, based on the memoirs of Christopher Isherwood,
for Mammoth Screen.
In
2006 he wrote an eclectic score to the complex, dark and funny feature
film Scenes Of A Sexual Nature starring
Ewan McGregor, Hugh Bonneville, Gina McKee and Sophie Okonedo for
Tin Pan Films. He wrote a wonderfully original score to the dark
and twisted feature The Truth, which received
rave reviews, and most recently completed the score to the feature
Riprendimi (US title - "Good
Bye Heartache"), which was accepted to premier
in competition at the Sundance Film Festival. Other features include
the award winning The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz
(Strawberry Vale/UA) for which Dominik received the Best Music Award
at Spain's Estapona Film Festival; the Italian comedy In
Principio Erano Le Mutande (premiered at the Berlin
Film Festival); Alice Through The Looking Glass
(Projector/Channel 4), starring Kate Beckinsale and Ian Holm; and
Appetite (Loud Mouse/J&M), starring
Trevor Eve and Ute Lemper. Dominik also wrote the end title song
for this film, sung by Ute Lemper, which featured in the album ‘The
Best of Ute Lemper’ (the album reached No. 2 in the UK classical
charts).
Dominik
received great acclaim following the phenomenal success of his score
to Agatha Christie’s televised and re-vamped Miss Marple
(ITV/WGBH), starring many of the most established actors
working today. His music is full of life, illustrated by his amazing
and colourful orchestrations and as a result he was awarded a Gold
Medal for Best Original Music at The New York International TV Festival
2006 and has continued to create imaginative scores for series two
and the forthcoming series three. He followed
this with a wonderful period score to Jericho,
starring Robert Lindsay as a 1950's detective and a contemporary
score to the drama If I Had You.
Earlier
TV credits include We Can Make You Talk
(Tiger Aspect / History Channel NY), about the treatment of
terrorist suspects in Guantanamo and Footprints (Tigerlilly Films),
a documentary filmed in Afghanistan. Dominik also directed and scored
a contemporary biker opera Hell For Leather,
which has been shown at more than 60 film festivals. He is a member
of Taxi Val Mentek , the avant-garde pop band/video art duo, and
also composes performance music for the theatre, including Forkbeard
Fantasy's Shooting Shakespeare, which has toured.
For
more information about Dominik please go to his web site www.dominikscherrer.com
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Feature Film Credits
RIPRENDIMI
(US title
"Good Morning Heartache")
Bess Movie
Director: Anna Negri
Producer: Francesca Neri
SCENES OF A SEXUAL NATURE
Mob Films/ Tinpan Films
Director: Ed Blum
Producer: Ed Blum
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hugh Bonneville, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo
TWO FAMILIES
Parallel Pictures
Director: Romano Scavolini
Producers: Lee Chamberlain, Francesco Papa
Cast: Franco Nero, Richard
Johnson
THE TRUTH
2ManyExecutives
Director: George Milton
Producer: Julie - Anne Edwards
THE HONEYTRAP
Filmhouse Ltd
Director: Michael Gunther
Producer: Madeleine Lim
Cast: Emily Lloyd
THE NINE LIVES OF TOMAS KATZ
Strawberry Vale Films
Director: Ben Hopkins
Producer: Caroline Hewitt
*Winner
Best Music Award at Spain's Estapona Film Festival*
*Winner Evening Standard Award*
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
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Television Drama
CHRISTOPHER
AND HIS KIND
Mammoth Screen / BBC
Director: Geoffrey Sax
Producer: Celia Duval
Executive Producers: Damien
Timmer, Michele Buck
INSPECTOR
GEORGE GENTLY (Series 4)
Granada / WGBH Boston
Director: Daniel O'Hara
Producer: Suzan Harrison
Executive Producers: George
Faber, Charles Pattinson
MISS MARPLE
(Series 5)
Granada / WGBH Boston
Director: Tom Shankland
Producer: Karen Thrussell
Executive Producers: Damien
Timmer, Michele Buck
MISS MARPLE (Series
4)
Granada / WGBH Boston
Director: Charles Palmer
Producer: Karen Thrussell, Damien Timmer
Starring: Julia McKenzie, Matthew MacFadyen, Prunella Scales, Helen
Baxendale
LIFE LINE
Carnival Film / BBC
Director: Jamie Payne
Producer: Tim Bradley
Cast: Ray Stevenson, Joanne Whalley
MISS MARPLE (Series 3)
Granada / WGBH Boston
Directors: Nicolas Winding Refn, Dan Zeff, Moira Armstrong
Producer: Karen Thrussell
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Saffron Burrows, Richard E. Grant, Vincent
Regan, Polly Walker, Jane Seymour
PRIMEVAL
(Series 1, 2 & 3)
Impossible Pictures/ITV
Director: Cilla Ware, Jamie Payne
Producer: Cameron McAllister
DRACULA
Granada/BBC
Director:
Bill Eagles
Producer:
Trevor Hopkins
MISS MARPLE (Series 2)
Granada/WGBH Boston
Directors: Ed Hall, Tom Shankland, Peter
Medak, Paul Unwin
Producer: Matthew Read.
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Timothy Dalton, Greta Scacchi, Sarah Parish, Charles Dance, Dawn French, Steven Berkoff
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: Karen Thrussell
Cast: Francesca Annis, Jane Horrocks, Robert Lindsay
MISS MARPLE (Series 1)
Granada/WGBH Boston
Directors: Andy Wilson, John Strickland, Charles Palmer
Producer: Matthew Read
Cast: Geraldine McEwan, Simon Callow, Zoe
Wanamaker, Tara Fitzgerald, Joanna Lumley, David
Williams, Derek Jacobi
*Winner
Best Music at New York Festival TV Awards*
*Nominated for Emmy Best Special Class Programme*
L’ALTRA DONNA
Cineteam
Director: Anna Negri
Producer: Aldo Raparelli
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
Projector Pictures
Director: John Henderson
Producer: Trevor Eve, Simon Johnson
Cast: Kate Beckinsale, Ian Holm, Steve Coogan
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Documentaries/Misc
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,
Best Film Nevers, Prix Action Light Locarno*
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Theatre
SHOOTING SHAKESPEARE (Sound Design)
Directors: Chris and Tim Britton
Productions: Forkbeard Fantasy, Theatre Royal ( Bath )
RELIEF
Director: Catherine Bay
Theatre: Menagerie de Verre, Paris
WHEN WE DEAD AWAKEN
Director: Andrew Harries
Winner of the London Fringe Best Music Award
Production: Absolute Theatre, London
QUEEN CHRISTINE
Director: Andrew Harries
Production: Absolute Theatre, London
THE MISANTHROPE
Director: Andrew Harries
Production: Absolute Theatre, London
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