Dominik Scherrer Explained

Dominik Scherrer is a Swiss-British composer born in 1967 in Zurich, Switzerland, who has written prolifically for film, theatre and television.^[1]

Career

Scherrer has composed the music score for both seasons of the British television series Ripper Street and worked on a third series in 2014.^[2] He won the Best Television Soundtrack Award for his work on Ripper Street at the 2014 Ivor Novello Awards.^[3]

Filmography

• The Honeytrap (2002)
• The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2002)
• Agatha Christie's Marple (2004–13)
• Jericho (2005)
• The Truth (2006)
• Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006)
• Primeval (2007–09)
• Inspector George Gently (2010–11)
• Christopher and His Kind (2011)
• Just Henry (2011)
• Monroe (2011–12)
• (2012)
• Ripper Street (2012–16)
• The Missing (2014–2016)
• An Inspector Calls (2015)
• The Collection (2016)
• One of Us (2016)
• Requiem (2018)
• The City and the City (2018)
• The Widow (2019)
• Baptise (2019–2021)
• Memory (Documentary short) (2019)
• Elizabeth Is Missing (2019)
• The Serpent (2021)
• The Tourist (2022)

Discography

• The Honeytrap (original soundtrack) (2007)
• Scenes of a Sexual Nature (original soundtrack) (2007)
• Monroe (original soundtrack) (2011)
• Primeval (original soundtrack) (2011)
• An Inspector Calls (original soundtrack) (2015)
• Ripper Street (original soundtrack) (2015)
• The Missing (original soundtrack) (2015)
• Requiem (original soundtrack) with Bat for Lashes (2018)
• The City and the City (original soundtrack) (2018)

Awards and nominations

• Ivor Novello Award, Nominee Best Television Soundtrack, Boat Story (2024)
• Ivor Novello Award, Nominee Best Television Soundtrack, The Serpent (2022) ^[4]
• Ivor Novello Award, Nominee Best Television Soundtrack, The Collection (2017)
• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie, or a Special, Nominee, The Missing (2015)
• Ivor Novello Award, Winner Best Television Soundtrack, Ripper Street (2014)
• Royal Television Society, Nominee for Best Television Soundtrack Ripper Street (2013)
• Ivor Novello Award, Nominee Best Television Soundtrack, Agatha Christie's Marple (Series 5) (2011)
• New York Festivals, Winner Best Television Soundtrack, Agatha Christie's Marple (Series 1) (2005)
• Locarno International Film Festival, Winner Prix Action Light, Hell for Leather (1998)
• International Composers Festival, Hastings and Bexhill-on-sea

Notes and References

1. Web site: COOL Music Limited – Composers: Dominik Scherrer. Coolmusicltd.com. 26 May 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140528010648/http://www.coolmusicltd.com/composers_detail.asp?id=17. 28 May 2014. dmy-all.
2. The Whitechapel Society 1888 Journal, Issue 55; April 2014
3. Web site: The Ivor Novello Awards 2014: Winners in full – Music News. Digital Spy. 22 May 2014. 26 May 2014.
4. Web site: Flynn . Tilly . 2022-04-07 . Nominations announced for The Ivors 2022 . 2024-05-29 . The Ivors Academy . en-GB.