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. Recently Dominik produced the score for the hugely successful, Primeval (series 1 & 2). He is also currently scoring Agatha Christie's Marple (series 4).

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 toured extensively last year in the UK.

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

THE TRUTH
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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

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)
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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