Dominic Sewell is an award-winning composer and orchestrator of scores for films, TV, commercials and theatre. Clients have included the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, English National Ballet, The Guardian newspaper, Decca Classics and Warner. His films have been shown at some of the world’s most prestigious festivals including Cannes Lions, LA shorts and New York. He trained at Oxford University and later at the Royal College of Music with Joseph Horovitz where he was the holder of a doctoral studentship award for his work in reconstructing Walton’s film score of Henry V (1945). As an orchestrator, his work has featured on the BBC’s Emmy-award winning series Walking with Dinosaurs, David Attenborough’s Natural World series and EMI’s production music labels worldwide.

High profile commercial work with J Walter Thompson (Cadbury), Bartle Bogle Heggerty (Tesco, Ford) and Havas International (Lemsip) led to Dom being commissioned by Cineworld to produce a suite of epic orchestral spots for their Unlimited card campaign in 2018.

Film credits include We Are All Stories in which Dom’s chamber music score is set beneath rap poetry performed by Mark Grist. Facing Evil for the Guardian Newspaper was a harrowing account of Mo Lea’s survival from an attack by Peter Sutcliffe and her subsequent recovery through fine art. A Day in the Life of a Bathroom Mirror (Tim McInnerny) (Gasparailla (Best film nominee), LA Shorts, Aesthetica) was written and produced in three days, Strawberry Sauce premiered in Cannes as part of the Straight8 competition. For Evil’s Evil Cousin (BAFTA 2016), Dom created a score which ranged from 50s soul to 70s psychedelia.

TV credits include work for the BBC’s Natural World programme (The Batman of Mexico), ITV’s The Secret Life of Babies and The Secret Life of Cats as well as work on the film drama Marjorie and Gladys (ITV).

In 2007 Dom was commissioned by the Brighton Festival to reconstruct Walton’s score to Olivier’s Henry V. The painstaking work of aurally transcribing the original music was the subject of a BBC World Service documentary and continues to be performed in Europe.

Dom has also composed for theatre including a Royal College of Music/Royal College of Art collaboration with English National Ballet in their Synergy project as well as a reinterpreting Gershwin event at the Royal Albert Hall. His work with HookHitch Theatre from 2012 has seen folk and jazz scores for a wide variety of productions ranging from The Despondent Divorcée (a 1940s thriller) to the biographical My Friend Peter – A Tale of Beatrix Potter which toured the UK in 2016/2017. Dominic is part of the film composition lecturing team at the University of West London.