Alex Heffes is one of the UK’s leading film composers. Rising to international prominence with his score to Kevin Macdonald’s Oscar-winning ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER Alex is a composer who has never been confined by musical boundaries. The LA Daily News said of his score to Academy-Award winning film THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND "[it] has the best and weirdest soundtrack I've heard all year.”
After graduating from Oxford with a first-class degree, Alex first worked as writer and arranger on projects covering the musical spectrum from steel band to symphony orchestra with artists such as Elton John and members of Blur. His versatility as a composer has led to a busy and varied movie-scoring career taking him across musical boundaries from the acclaimed BAFTA-winning film TOUCHING THE VOID to Steve Coogan’s hi-jinx comedy THE PAROLE OFFICER. Other movie scores include DEAR FRANKIE (Miramax Films), the psychological thriller TRAUMA (Warner Bros.), starring Colin Firth and Mena Suvari, and the Fox Searchlight romantic comedy IMAGINE ME AND YOU. While scoring THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND Alex traveled to Uganda to record and produce many of the bands featured on the soundtrack. HIs score to acclaimed thriller STATE OF PLAY starring Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck and Helen Mirren. featured a collaboration with classical British rock producer Flood. He also collaborated with director Tim Burton on his screen adaptation of SWEENEY TODD starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
Alex’s scores have been nominated for BAFTA, Ivor Novello, European Film Academy and ASCAP awards.
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