Isobel Waller-Bridge
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Born | Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge 23 April 1984 London, England |
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Occupation | Composer |
Relatives | Phoebe Waller-Bridge (sister) Michelle Dockery (sister-in-law)[1] |
Website | isobelwaller-bridge |
Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge (born 23 April 1984) is a British composer who is known for her scores for film, television, and theatre, along with her works for electronic music and contemporary classical music.[2]
Life and career
Waller-Bridge received her
Waller-Bridge composed the soundtrack for the
Waller-Bridge is also a performer, playing in venues such as the St James Theatre and Union Chapel. In 2016, her music appeared on albums with the Icelandic composers Ólafur Arnalds and Jóhann Jóhannsson.[3] In 2021, she was commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra to write music for their Human/Nature series. Her piece, Temperatures, was premiered in November 2021, conducted by Pekka Kuusisto at the Royal Festival Hall.[9] In 2020, she was commissioned by Sarah Burton to score Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection at Paris Fashion Week.[10] In 2021, she collaborated with ballet dancer and actress Francesca Hayward to score her dance film, Siren.[11]
For theatre, Waller-Bridge worked on Florian Zeller's The Son (West End)[12] and The Forest (Hampstead Theatre),[13] Woyzeck, adapted by Jack Thorne (Old Vic),[14] Blood Wedding (Young Vic),[15] and Knives in Hens (Donmar Warehouse).[16]
In June 2022, it was announced that Waller-Bridge would be providing an original score for an animated short film of
Personal life
Waller-Bridge is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge.
The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex.[21][22] On her father's side, she is a descendant of the Revd Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, and a distant relative of politician and author Egerton Leigh. Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire.[23]
Waller-Bridge has two younger siblings: Jasper Waller-Bridge and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.[2]
Works
- Music for Strings (2013)[24]
Television
- Life (2002 documentary series, four episodes)
- War & Peace (2016 TV series)
- Fleabag (2016-2019)[4]
- Vanity Fair (2018 TV series)[4]
- The Split (2018 TV series)[3]
- The ABC Murders (2018 TV series) [25]
- Black Mirror (2019, episode "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too")
- The Way Down (2021)
- Roar (2022)
Film
- Vita and Virginia(2018)
- Emma (2020)
- Munich – The Edge of War(2021)
- The Phantom of the Open (2021)
- I Came By (2022)
- The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022; short film)
- The Lesson (2023)
- Wicked Little Letters (2023)
- Magpie (2024)
References
- ^ Sachdeva, Maanya (24 September 2023). "Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery marries Jasper Waller-Bridge in intimate ceremony". The Independent. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
- ^ a b Nepilova, Hannah (15 November 2019). "Isobel Waller-Bridge on fame, Phoebe and going from Fleabag to Austen". The Financial Times. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
- ^ a b c Waller-Bridge, Isobel. "Biography". isobelwaller-bridge.com. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
- ^ The Radio Times. 21 September 2018.
- ^ "Isobel Waller-Bridge Used Elizabeth Debicki's Actual Heartbeat to Score 'Vita & Virginia'". indiewire. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ^ Wilde, Autumn de (6 March 2020), Emma. (Comedy, Drama, Romance), Working Title Films, Blueprint Pictures, Focus Features, retrieved 14 March 2022
- ^ Schwochow, Christian (21 January 2022), Munich: The Edge of War (Biography, Drama, History), Turbine Studios, Netflix, retrieved 14 March 2022
- ^ Roberts, Craig (18 March 2022), The Phantom of the Open (Comedy, Drama, Sport), BBC Films, Baby Cow Productions, British Film Institute (BFI), retrieved 14 March 2022
- ^ "Pekka Kuusisto: Four Seasons, and Four Seascapes". Philharmonia. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "If You Need To Escape For A Moment Today, Listen To This Soothing Alexander McQueen Playlist by Isobel Waller-Bridge". British Vogue. 4 June 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Top Spot of the Week: Jess Kohl Directs Royal Ballet's Francesca Hayward in "Siren"". SHOOTonline. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "The Son". London Theatre. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "THE FOREST". Hampstead Theatre. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Woyzeck review – John Boyega shines as traumatised soldier in 80s Berlin". the Guardian. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "Blood Wedding". Young Vic website. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "KNIVES IN HENS". Donmar Warehouse. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
- ^ "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse coming to BBC One and iPlayer this Christmas". BBC Media Centre. 30 June 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 2011. p. 234.
- ^ Hattenstone, Simon (8 September 2018). "Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I have an appetite for transgressive women'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ^ "Engagements: Mr C. T. P. Woodman and Ms P. M. Waller-Bridge". The Daily Telegraph. 18 January 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
- ISBN 978-0850110227.
- ^ Townend, Peter, ed. (1972). Burke's Landed Gentry. Vol. 3 (18th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 532.
- ISBN 978-0971196629.
- ^ "Isobel Waller-Bridge – Music for Strings". SoundCloud.
- ^ "Isobel Waller-Bridge to Score BBC's 'The ABC Murders'". Filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Isobel Waller-Bridge at IMDb
- Video on YouTube. "Isobel Waller-Bridge, composer". Philharmonia Orchestra, 2022. Waller-Bridge explains her music while playing a grandpiano. Duration: 7m:14s.
- Isobel Waller-Bridge on SoundCloud
- Isobel Waller-Bridge on Spotify