Isobel Waller-Bridge

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Isobel Waller-Bridge
Born
Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge

(1984-04-23) 23 April 1984 (age 41)
Hammersmith, London England
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OccupationComposer
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Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge (born 23 April 1984)[not verified in body] is an English composer who is known for her scores for film, television, and theatre, along with her works for electronic music and contemporary classical music.[2]

Early life and education

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Born Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge on 23 April 1984,[citation needed] she is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke), an employee of the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers, and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint.[3][4][5] She has two younger siblings: Jasper and Phoebe.[citation needed] The family from which Waller-Bridge descends were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex.[6][7] 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.[8][verification needed]

Waller-Bridge earned an bachelor's degree in music from Edinburgh University, and a master's degree from King's College London.[citation needed] She was also awarded a scholarship from the Royal Academy of Music, where she received another diploma.[citation needed][9][better source needed]

Career

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Waller-Bridge composed the soundtrack for the BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019), which was written by and starred her sister, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.[10] She also wrote the score for the feature films Vita and Virginia (2018) and Emma (2020).[11][12] In 2021, she scored Netflix's Munich: The Edge of War,[13] which was released by Milan Records/Sony Music, and The Phantom of the Open.[14]

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.[9] 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.[15] In 2020, she was commissioned by Sarah Burton to score Alexander McQueen’s Spring/Summer 2020 collection at Paris Fashion Week.[16] In 2021, she collaborated with ballet dancer and actress Francesca Hayward to score her dance film, Siren.[17]

For theatre, Waller-Bridge worked on Florian Zeller's The Son (West End)[18] and The Forest (Hampstead Theatre),[19] Woyzeck, adapted by Jack Thorne (Old Vic),[20] Blood Wedding (Young Vic),[21] and Knives in Hens (Donmar Warehouse).[22]

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 aired on BBC One at Christmas 2022.[23] She produced the soundtrack to Sweetpea in 2024 [24]

Personal life

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Michelle Dockery is Waller-Bridge's sister-in-law. [25]

Works

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  • Music for Strings (2013)[26]

Television

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Film

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References

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  1. ^ Sachdeva, Maanya (24 September 2023). "Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery marries Jasper Waller-Bridge in intimate ceremony". The Independent. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  2. ^ Nepilova, Hannah (15 November 2019). "Isobel Waller-Bridge on fame, Phoebe and going from Fleabag to Austen". The Financial Times. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  3. ^ Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 2011. p. 234.
  4. ^ Hattenstone, Simon (8 September 2018). "Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I Have an Appetite for Transgressive Women'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  5. ^ "Engagements: Mr C. T. P. Woodman and Ms P. M. Waller-Bridge". The Daily Telegraph. 18 January 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  6. ^ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1976). Burke's Family Index. Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 18. ISBN 978-0850110227.
  7. ^ Townend, Peter, ed. (1972). Burke's Landed Gentry. Vol. 3 (18th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 532.
  8. ^ Burke's Peerage, Knightage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (107th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. 1 December 2003. p. 819. ISBN 978-0971196629.
  9. ^ a b c Waller-Bridge, Isobel. "Biography". isobelwaller-bridge.com. Retrieved 4 December 2019.[independent source needed]
  10. ^ a b c "Isobel Waller-Bridge on the 'dream' of composing for Vanity Fair – and its 'weird similarities' to sister Phoebe's Fleabag". Radio Times. 21 September 2018.
  11. ^ "Isobel Waller-Bridge Used Elizabeth Debicki's Actual Heartbeat to Score 'Vita & Virginia'". indiewire. 23 August 2019. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  12. ^ Wilde, Autumn de (6 March 2020), Emma. (Comedy, Drama, Romance), Working Title Films, Blueprint Pictures, Focus Features, retrieved 14 March 2022
  13. ^ Schwochow, Christian (21 January 2022), Munich: The Edge of War (Biography, Drama, History), Turbine Studios, Netflix, retrieved 14 March 2022
  14. ^ 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
  15. ^ "Pekka Kuusisto: Four Seasons, and Four Seascapes". Philharmonia. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  16. ^ "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.
  17. ^ "Top Spot of the Week: Jess Kohl Directs Royal Ballet's Francesca Hayward in "Siren"". SHOOTonline. 21 October 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  18. ^ "The Son". London Theatre. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  19. ^ "THE FOREST". Hampstead Theatre. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  20. ^ "Woyzeck review – John Boyega shines as traumatised soldier in 80s Berlin". the Guardian. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  21. ^ "Blood Wedding". Young Vic website. 19 September 2019. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  22. ^ "KNIVES IN HENS". Donmar Warehouse. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  23. ^ "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.
  24. ^ "Here's every song on the 'Sweetpea' soundtrack". NME. 12 October 2024.
  25. ^ Michelle Dockery Marries Jasper Waller-Bridge - Fleabag has a sister-in-law! (accessed 2023-09-26)
  26. ^ "Isobel Waller-Bridge – Music for Strings". SoundCloud.
  27. ^ "Isobel Waller-Bridge to Score BBC's 'The ABC Murders'". Filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
  28. ^ "Isobel Waller-Bridge doing the music for 'The Way Down,' the HBO Max doc on the Gwen Shamblin Lara and the Remnant Fellowship???? I very much love that, yes". x.com.
  29. ^ "Here's every song on the 'Sweetpea' soundtrack". NME. 12 October 2024.
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