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Benjamin Wa llfisch
Composer, Conductor
Benjamin Wallfisch is an Emmy®, Ivor Novello and multiple World Soundtrack Award
nominated composer. To date, he has worked on 29 feature films, working closely with
directors including Terry Gilliam, Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier, Joe Wright and
Rupert Wyatt.
Classically trained, Benjamin obtained a Masters degree with Distinction in Composition
from London’s Royal Academy of Music, and is the first composer in the Academy’s history
to be awarded the Honorary Diploma of the Academy.
He made his debut as film composer at the age of 24, scoring Lars von Trier’s Dear Wendy.
His work on this score earned him a nomination as 'Best Original Score' in the 2006 Danish
Film Academy Awards and 'Discovery of the Year' in the 2005 World Soundtrack Awards.
His subsequent score, for Rupert Wyatt's The Escapist earned him a nomination as 'Best
Original Film Score' in the 2009 Ivor Novello Awards and his second nomination as
'Discovery of the Year' in the 2008 World Soundtrack Awards.
Benjamin orchestrated and conducted Dario Marianelli’s Academy Award® and Golden
Globe winning score for Atonement and has worked as lead orchestrator on numerous
other studio pictures such as Pride and Prejudice (Academy Award® nominated, Best
Original Score 2006), V for Vendetta, The Soloist, Eat Pray Love and most recently Ridley
Scott’s Robin Hood.
Benjamin is also in demand as a concert composer and conductor and has worked closely
with orchestras including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra,
London Philharmonic and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, performing in venues including
the Hollywood Bowl, Sydney Opera House and London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Benjamin lives and works in Los Angeles and owns scoring and recording facilities in Santa
Monica and London.
AWARD NOMINATIONS
Wo rld So u nd tr ack A ward s, 2008
Discovery of the Year Award: The Escapist
Wo rld So u nd tr ack A ward s, 2005
Discovery of the Year Award: Dear Wendy
News and Do c u men tar y E mmy A war ds, 2008
Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music and Sound
When We Left Earth: The Nasa Missions
Ivo r No v ello A war d, 2009
Best Original Film Score, The Escapist
Dan is h A cad emy A ward, 2005
Best Original Film Score, Dear Wendy
Selected Composer Credits (Film)
THE E SCA PIS T
IFC Films (2008)
Director: Rupert Wyatt
DEA R W EN DY
Zentropa Ent / Nimbus Films (2005)
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Selected Orchestrator/Arranger/Conductor Credits (Film)
LIFE I N A DAY
Scott Free Productions / National Geographic Films (2011)
Director: Kevin MacDonald
THE RIT E
New Line Cinema / Contra Film (2011)
Director: Mikael Hafstrom
EAT, P RA Y, L OV E
Columbia Pictures / Plan B / Red Om (2010)
Director: Ryan Murphy
ROBI N HOOD
Universal Studios / Relativity Ent / Imagine Ent (2010)
Director: Ridley Scott
EVE RYB ODY 'S F IN E
Miramax Films / Radar Pictures / Hollywood Gang (2009)
Director: Kirk Jones
AGORA
Mod Producciones (2009)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
THE S OL OI ST
Dreamworks / Universal Studios / Working Title (2008)
Director: Joe Wright
THE M UTAN T C HRON ICL ES
Voltage Pictures / Ed Pressman Films (2008)
Director: Simon Hunter
ATONE M ENT
Focus Features / Universal Studios / Working Title Films (2007)
Director: Joe Wright
THE B RAV E ONE
Warner Bros Picture / Village Roadshow / Silver Pictures (2007)
Director: Neil Jordan
MI SS P OT TE R
Summit Entertainment / Phoenix Pictures (2007)
Director: Chris Noonan
NUTC RA CK E R AN D T HE RAT KIN G
HCC Media Group (2007)
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Continued Orchestrator/Conductor Credits (Film)
GOODB YE BA FANA
Film Afrika / Banana Films (2006)
Director: Billie August
THE RET URN
Rogue Pictures (2006)
Director: Asif Kapadia
E RAG ON
Fox 2000 / Davis Entertainment (2006)
Director: Stefen Fangmeier
Title Song String Arrangements
V for V end etta
Warner Bros / DC Comics / Silver Pictures (2005)
Director: James McTeigue
PRI DE AN D P REJ UDI CE
Focus Features / Universal Studios / Working Title Films (2005)
Director: Joe Wright
THE B ROT HERS G RI M M
MGM / Dimension Films (2005)
Director: Terry Gilliam
COPY ING B EE T HOVE N
MGM / Myriad Pictures (2005)
Director: Agnieszka Holland
NANN Y MCP HE E
Universal Studios / Working Title Films (2005)
Director: Kirk Jones
OPAL DREA M
BBC Films / Academy Films / Strand Releasing (2005)
Director: Peter Cattaneo
BEY ON D T HE G ATE S
BBC Films / ContentFilm (2005)
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
LES F ILS DU VE NT
Lionsgate Home Ent / Dan Films (2004)
Director: Julien Seri
C HASI NG LIB E RT Y
Warner Bros Pictures / Alcon Ent (2004)
Director: Andy Cadiff
Selected Composer Credits (Television)
BREAK ING T HE M OUL D: T HE ST ORY OF P EN I CILLI N
BBC (2009)
Director: Peter Hoar
W HEN W E LEFT: T HE NA SA MI SS I ONS
Discovery Channel (2008)
Selected Licensing Credits (Film)
M OON
Sony Pictures Classics / Library Films (2009)
Director: Duncan Jones
Commissioned Concert Works
BBC
Bath International Festival of Music (for three consecutive seasons)
Belcea Quartet
Orchestre de Bretagne
Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design
Chelmsford Festival
Coull Quartet
English Chamber Orchestra
Escape Velocity
Goldberg Ensemble
Hallé Orchestra
Hamburg Symphony Orchestra
Lake District Summer Music
Leamington Festival
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic
Manchester Camerata
Park Lane Group
Rambert Dance Company
Royal College of Art and the Warwick Arts Society