Requiem

The music Dominik Scherrer co-composed with Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) for the Netflix / BBC One supernatural thriller series REQUIEM, earned him an Ivor Novello Award! On 23 May, the Ivors Academy of Music Creators (formerly known as BASCA, British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) announced all 2019 winners. Music creators nominated to receive an Ivor Novello Award in a judged category are chosen by panels of songwriters and composers, representing true peer recognition. Presented since 1956, the Ivor Novello Awards honour excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing. They are judged by the songwriting and composing community. In 2014, Dominik Scherrer was awarded an Ivor Novello for his score to Ripper Street, with Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Nile Rodgers, Jeff Beck and Tom Odell among other recipients that year.

Dominik Scherrer wins Ivor Novello award for Best Television Soundtrack with original score to REQUIEM (co-composed by Bat for Lashes Natasha Khan)

The music Dominik Scherrer co-composed with Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) for the Netflix / BBC One supernatural thriller series REQUIEM, earned him an Ivor Novello Award!
On 23 May, the Ivors Academy of Music Creators (formerly known as BASCA, British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors) announced all 2019 winners.
Music creators nominated to receive an Ivor Novello Award in a judged category are chosen by panels of songwriters and composers, representing true peer recognition.

Presented since 1956, the Ivor Novello Awards honour excellence in British and Irish songwriting and composing. They are judged by the songwriting and composing community.
In 2014, Dominik Scherrer was awarded an Ivor Novello for his score to Ripper Street, with Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Nile Rodgers, Jeff Beck and Tom Odell among other recipients that year.

In February 2018, REQUIEM, created by Kris Mrksa (Underbelly) and directed by Mahalia Belo (BAFTA Breakthrough Brit 2017), premiered on BBC One before its worldwide distribution on Netflix and was warmly welcomed by audiences and reviewers.

Press quotes:
'Requiem, episode one review: there are genuine chills in this fine Friday night horror.' (The Telegraph)
'New BBC psycho-drama had the same effect as mess-with-your-head movies The Shining, Black Swan and Don't Look Now.' (Mirror)
“Requiem promises much, not least in way of sound. Nominally just another spooksome BBC tingler – old castle in Wales, birds flying into windows, locked room, pagan symbols, creepy locals – it is rendered a whole cut abote by not having the heroine’s every move into peril foreshadowed by dissonant eek-eek strings. The music, and sound effects, are so muted, or subtle, as to constitute a revelation: why, when it can be done this well, was it ever done otherwise? This truly, and cleverly, intrigues (as does the heroine, cellist Matilda, played by Lydia Wilson) in a way no rusty hinge ever has. Hooked.” (The Guardian)
'When the action relocates to Wales half way through the first episode of the series switches from the Urban Uncanny to Folk Horror. This is stressed by the excellent score from composer Dominik Scherrer. In London, the music is often sharp, stabbing cello and strings. When we leave claustrophobic concrete underpasses behind and suddenly the camera is flying over the Welsh hills, the soundtrack suddenly moves into another key and the scraping cello becomes soothing harps.' (Stuart Barr - MaxRenn.blog)
'The opening cue ‘Aigira’ had a very intense sound to it with a blend of cello texture and the female voice giving me the feeling of a paranormal, ghastly presence. (...) Dominik Scherrer wrote a score to remember.' (Soundtrack Dreams)
Requiem is set in the darkest corners of rural Wales. Twenty years ago, a toddler disappeared, never to be seen again. Rising cello star Matilda Gray (Lydia Wilson) is drawn to the case and discovers her own part in a terrifying otherworldly secret.
The score by award-winning composer Dominik Scherrer, who also brought you the music to some of the finest television dramas such as The Missing, Ripper Street & Marple, reinforces both the subtle-scary and supernatural character of 'Requiem'. To compose the original score of this six-episode dark drama series, Dominik collaborated with Bat For Lashes' Natasha Khan.

Award-winning composer Dominik Scherrer states:
“It was an exciting, entertaining script, with an off-beat tone. I loved that the central character, Matilda, is a concert cellist. The cello immediately unlocked the door into the score and justified an element of virtuoso solo cello. The cello often plays in unusually spooky registers, as if it was part of a mysterious Welsh landscape.'

'Just as the production started principal photography, Natasha Khan and I spent some weeks in my studio in Brick Lane, coming up with themes and recording outlandish vocals and terrifying sounds. There is a cheeky element to the show, as well as a genuinely scary one. Giving a stylistic nod to 1970s lo-fi soundtracks from BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop or 1970s horror soundtracks, together with a pastoral spookiness of the cello and strings themes, started to give 'Requiem' its own unique atmosphere.'

More info at: Requiem Album