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Alexandra Harwood(II)

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Alexandra Harwood
Alexandra Harwood is a BAFTA Cymru Award-winning composer. Recent works include scores for Mike Newell's feature 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society' starring Lily James and the television series 'All Creatures Great and Small' for Channel5 and Masterpiece PBS and BBC documentary series 'New Labour'. Prior to this composed the scores for feature film 'The Escape', starring Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper, 'Thatcher a Very British Revolution' BBC documentary series and 'Growing Up Wild', a feature documentary for Disney/ Netflix USA.

Alexandra is a classically trained composer. After graduating from the Royal College of Music (Dip Mus) and The Juilliard School (MA), she was Composer in Residence for the Juilliard Drama Division, during which time she wrote music for theatre productions in the US and UK and worked with actors including Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Laura Linney, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tim Nelson and Audra MacDonald.

Concert work includes the full length ballet 'Geisha' for Northern Ballet, director/choreographer Kenneth Tindall, four pieces for iMusicanti's St John's Smith Square 2018 concert series, 'Automatic Flesh', for Ballet Rambert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, 'The Happy Prince' (cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra), St John's Smith Square, London; 'I Hear a Drum' (voice and percussion) for Audra MacDonald, Avery Fisher Hall, NY; 'Sonatina', The National Flute Convention chosen repertoire, 2009 and 2018, USA; 'Theme and Variations' written for Sir Ronald Harwood's 70th Birthday, performed in the presence of HRH The Prince of Wales.

Success in theatre and concert work led to Alexandra to take an MA in film composition at the National Film and Television School, which was the start of her career as a film composer. Her music for film has won awards and nominations with the British Animation Awards-Best Sound and Music (Winner 2018) , BAFTA Cymru (Winner 2015), BIFA (2013), Anima Mundi, Edinburgh Film Festival, IDFA and Locarno.

Other film and television work include scores for 'Dancing in Circles', which was awarded the BAFTA Cymru Best Short Award (2015), BBC animations for director Anna Humphries, Channel 5 series 'The Secret Life of Puppies and Kittens'; Channel 4/Animal Planet US feature documentary 'Yeti or Not?'; BBC4 documentary series 'What a Performance - Pioneers of Popular Entertainment'; ; feature documentary 'Bronx Lives' (Singapore/ New York Production); 'A Celebration of Harry Potter' for Warner Bros. Orlando USA; 'Z1' directed by Gabriel Gauchet - winner of the Best Short Film at the British Independent Film Awards 2014 and received a Locarno Award nomination in 2013; BBC documentary 'Girlfriend in a Coma', directed by Annalisa Piras; 'No Man's Land', which won Best International Documentary at the Tehran International Short Film Festival, and received an IDFA nomination and broadcast DN2 Denmark; 'Kids Say', an animation TV series broadcast in Hong Kong in 2014; short 'The Substitute' director which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2015; and 'NightDare' which was nominated for the Royal Television Society Awards, including Best Sound and Music in 2015.
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Tom Courtenay, Matthew Goode, Michiel Huisman, Penelope Wilton, Glen Powell, Katherine Parkinson, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Lily James in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
7.3
  • Composer
  • 2018
Anna Madeley, Samuel West, Nicholas Ralph, Rachel Shenton, and Callum Woodhouse in All Creatures Great and Small (2020)
All Creatures Great and Small
8.6
TV Series
  • Composer
Margaret Thatcher in Thatcher: A Very British Revolution (2019)
Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
8.0
TV Series
  • Composer
Growing Up Wild (2016)
Growing Up Wild
7.1
  • Composer(as Alex Harwood)
  • 2016

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Composer

  • Anna Madeley, Samuel West, Nicholas Ralph, Rachel Shenton, and Callum Woodhouse in All Creatures Great and Small (2020)
    All Creatures Great and Small
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2020–2022
  • Tall Poppy (2022)
    Tall Poppy
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2022
  • Blair & Brown: The new Labour revolution (2021)
    Blair & Brown: The new Labour revolution
    • Composer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2021
  • Queen of Spain (2021)
    Queen of Spain
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Wild Tokyo (2020)
    Wild Tokyo
    • Composer
    • TV Special
    • 2020
  • Jerich0 (2019)
    Jerich0
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Margaret Thatcher in Thatcher: A Very British Revolution (2019)
    Thatcher: A Very British Revolution
    • Composer
    • TV Series
    • 2019
  • Minuet (2019)
    Minuet
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2019
  • New Puppy, New Home (2018)
    New Puppy, New Home
    • Composer
    • TV Special
    • 2018
  • Mary Anning - The Girl Who Helped Discover Dinosaurs
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Tom Courtenay, Matthew Goode, Michiel Huisman, Penelope Wilton, Glen Powell, Katherine Parkinson, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Lily James in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    • Composer
    • 2018
  • Lotte Rieniger - The Animation Genius You've (Probably) Never Heard Of
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Dominic Cooper and Gemma Arterton in The Escape (2017)
    The Escape
    • Composer
    • 2017
  • The Secret Life of Kittens
    • Composer (as Alex Harwood, original music by)
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2016
  • Growing Up Wild (2016)
    Growing Up Wild
    • Composer (as Alex Harwood)
    • 2016

Music Department

  • Tom Courtenay, Matthew Goode, Michiel Huisman, Penelope Wilton, Glen Powell, Katherine Parkinson, Jessica Brown Findlay, and Lily James in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
    • orchestrator
    • 2018
  • Dominic Cooper and Gemma Arterton in The Escape (2017)
    The Escape
    • orchestrator
    • 2017
  • Growing Up Wild (2016)
    Growing Up Wild
    • orchestrator
    • 2016
  • China: Between Clouds and Dreams (2016)
    China: Between Clouds and Dreams
    • composer: additional music (as Alex Harwood)
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Dreaming of Denmark (2015)
    Dreaming of Denmark
    • additional music (as Alex Harwood)
    • 2015
  • Vanessa Havell and Howard Perret in Bolt (2013)
    Bolt
    • composer: additional music (as Alex Harwood)
    • Short
    • 2013
  • Volume (2012)
    Volume
    • musician (as Alex Harwood)
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Miles Richardson in All Men's Dead (2012)
    All Men's Dead
    • musician (as Alex Harwood)
    • Short
    • 2012
  • Drying for Freedom (2011)
    Drying for Freedom
    • composer: additional music (as Alex Harwood)
    • 2011

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