Isobel Waller-Bridge

Isobel Waller-Bridge is an award-winning composer known for her scores for film, television and theatre, alongside her work in electronic and contemporary classical music. She works in a wide range of genres, extending across large-scale orchestral music, electronic sound design, experimental music and song writing.

Isobel has scored a multitude of feature films, including ‘Munich: The Edge of War’ (Netflix, dir. Christian Schwochow), ‘The Phantom of the Open’ (BBC Films, dir. Craig Roberts), ‘Emma.’ (Focus Features / Working Title, dir. Autumn de Wilde and more recently ‘I Came By’ (Netflix, dir. Babak Anvari), alongside the upcoming films ‘Apartment 7A’ (Paramount, dir. Natalie Erika James), and ‘The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse’ (Bad Robot/NoneMore Productions, dir. Charlie Mackesy and Peter Baynton). For television, her work includes music for ‘Fleabag’ (BBC/Amazon), ‘Black Mirror’ (Netflix), the limited anthology series ‘Roar’ (Apple), and critically acclaimed docu-series ‘The Way Down’ (HBO).

Alongside her recent commission ‘Temperatures’ for the Philharmonia Orchestra which premiered at the Royal Festival Hall in November 2021, she has also collaborated with fashion houses Alexander McQueen and Simone Rocha, and principal ballerina at the Royal Opera House, Francesca Hayward, for her dance film ‘Siren’. For theatre, Isobel has worked with Florian Zeller in ‘The Son’ (West End) as well as his play ‘The Forest’ (Hampstead Theatre). Other theatre credits include ‘Woyzeck’, adapted by Jack Thorne (Old Vic), ‘Blood Wedding’ (Young Vic), and ‘Knives In Hens’ (Donmar Warehouse).

Isobel's releases include her 2015 album ‘Music for Strings’, her single ‘Illuminations’ on Mercury KX / Decca, and more recently, the original soundtrack album for ‘Munich: The Edge of War’, out on Milan Records / Sony Music.

Isobel has received a number of awards including Best Composer at Underwire Film Festival and winner of Best Sound Designer at the Off West End Theatre Awards. More recently, she was nominated for the Discovery of the Year Award at the World Soundtrack Awards. In February 2022, Isobel featured as Composer Magazine's digital cover story.

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