Isobel Waller-Bridge

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Isobel Waller-Bridge
Born Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge
(1984-04-23) 23 April 1984 (age 40)
London, England
Alma mater
Occupation Composer
Relatives Phoebe Waller-Bridge (sister)
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Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge (born 23 April 1984) is a British composer, known for her scores for film, television and the theatre, alongside her work in electronic music and contemporary classical music.[1]

Life and career

Waller-Bridge studied for a bachelor's degree in music at Edinburgh University and a master's degree at King's College London. She was then awarded a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, where she achieved a diploma.[2]

Waller-Bridge is known for being the composer for the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019), written by and starring her sister, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.[3] She also wrote the score for the feature film Vita and Virginia directed by Chanya Button (2018), followed by Emma. (2020), directed by Autumn de Wilde.[4][5] In 2021, she scored Netflix's Munich: The Edge of War (dir. Chrisitan Schwochow, starring Jeremy Irons and George Mackay),[6] releasing the original soundtrack album with Milan Records/Sony Music,[7] as well as scoring The Phantom of the Open (dir. Craig Roberts, starring Mark Rylance and Sally Hawkins).[8]

She has performed in concert venues in London, such as at the St James Theatre and Union Chapel. In 2016, her music appeared on albums with the Icelandic composers Ólafur Arnalds and Jóhann Jóhannsson.[2] In 2021, she was commissioned by the Philharmonia Orchestra for their Human/Nature series. Her piece Temperatures was premiered in November 2021, conducted by Pekka Kuusisto at the Royal Festival Hall.[9] She has also written music for a runway show by Alexander McQueen at Paris Fashion Week,[10] and has collaborated with Francesca Hayward on 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 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, which will air on BBC One and BBC iPlayer at Christmas 2022.[17]

Personal life

Waller-Bridge is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge.[18] Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.[19][20] Her parents are divorced.[21]

The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex.[22][23] 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, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876.[24][25] Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire.[26]

Waller-Bridge has two younger siblings: Jasper Waller-Bridge and the actress and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge.[1]

Works

  • Music for Strings (2013)[27]

Television

Film

References

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External links

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