E455: Benjamin Wallfisch: Scoring Welcome to Derry

About this episode

Benjamin Wallfisch discusses his journey as a composer and his work on scoring Welcome to Derry.

After a musical upbringing that was staunchly classical, Benjamin Wallfisch has married his Bach-influenced skillset with a love of music technology to become one of Hollywood’s go-to composers. After a huge breakthrough working on Blade Runner: 2049 alongside a certain Hans Zimmer, huge jobs kept rolling in, including Shazam!, It and It Chapter Two, Twisters, and Alien: Romulus. The composer discusses scoring Welcome to Derry and Predator Badlands, and pivoting from pursuing orchestral condu...

People in this episode

Host: Headliner

Guest: Benjamin Wallfisch

Topics covered

• film scoring
• music technology
• Hollywood composers
• interviews
• classical music
• orchestral music

Keywords

• Benjamin Wallfisch
• film scoring
• Welcome to Derry
• Blade Runner: 2049
• Hans Zimmer
• music technology
• Hollywood composers

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Welcome to Derry, Blade Runner: 2049, Shazam!, It, It Chapter Two, Twisters, Alien: Romulus

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