Isobel Waller-Bridge

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]

Isobel Waller-Bridge
Born
Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge

(1984-04-23) 23 April 1984
London, England
Alma mater
OccupationComposer
RelativesPhoebe Waller-Bridge (sister)
Websiteisobelwaller-bridge.com

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]

Personal life

Waller-Bridge is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge.[17] Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.[18][19] Her parents are divorced.[20]

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, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876.[23][24] Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire.[25]

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

Works
  • Music for Strings (2013)[26]

Television

Film

References
  1. Nepilova, Hannah (15 November 2019). "Isobel Waller-Bridge on fame, Phoebe and going from Fleabag to Austen". The Financial Times. Retrieved 27 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. Waller-Bridge, Isobel. "Biography". isobelwaller-bridge.com. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  3. "Isobel Waller-Bridge on the 'dream' of composing for Vanity Fair – and its 'weird similarities' to sister Phoebe's Fleabag". The Radio Times. 21 September 2018.
  4. "Isobel Waller-Bridge Used Elizabeth Debicki's Actual Heartbeat to Score 'Vita & Virginia'". indiewire. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  5. Wilde, Autumn de (6 March 2020), Emma. (Comedy, Drama, Romance), Working Title Films, Blueprint Pictures, Focus Features, retrieved 14 March 2022
  6. Schwochow, Christian (21 January 2022), Munich: The Edge of War (Biography, Drama, History), Turbine Studios, Netflix, retrieved 14 March 2022
  7. Munich - The Edge of War (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film), 21 January 2022, retrieved 14 March 2022
  8. 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
  9. "Pekka Kuusisto: Four Seasons, and Four Seascapes". Philharmonia. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  10. "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.
  11. "Top Spot of the Week: Jess Kohl Directs Royal Ballet's Francesca Hayward in "Siren"". SHOOTonline. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  12. "The Son". London Theatre. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  13. "THE FOREST". Hampstead Theatre. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  14. "Woyzeck review – John Boyega shines as traumatised soldier in 80s Berlin". the Guardian. 23 May 2017. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  15. "Blood Wedding". Young Vic website. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  16. "KNIVES IN HENS". Donmar Warehouse. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  17. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 2011. p. 234.
  18. Hattenstone, Simon (8 September 2018). "Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I have an appetite for transgressive women'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  19. "Engagements: Mr C. T. P. Woodman and Ms P. M. Waller-Bridge". The Daily Telegraph. 18 January 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  20. Day, Elizabeth (7 July 2016). "Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge on female anger, emotional honesty -and fancying Barack Obama". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  21. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1976). Burke's Family Index. Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 18. ISBN 978-0850110227.
  22. Townend, Peter, ed. (1972). Burke's Landed Gentry. Vol. 3 (18th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 532.
  23. Burke's Peerage, Knightage and Baronetage. Vol. 2 (107th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. 1 December 2003. p. 1646. ISBN 978-0971196629.
  24. Burke's Landed Gentry. Vol. 3 (18th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. 1965. p. 532.
  25. Burke's Peerage, Knightage and Baronetage. Vol. 1 (107th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. 1 December 2003. p. 819. ISBN 978-0971196629.
  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.
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