Alex Heffes
Film score, Film music contributor
1971 –
Who is Alex Heffes?
Alex Heffes is a British film composer. His film scores include the BAFTA-winning Touching the Void, and Oscar-winning movies One Day in September, "The Last King of Scotland", and "Inside Job.
He graduated from Oxford University with first class honours and started his professional life playing keyboards and writing and arranging for commercials and TV. This led to him becoming assistant to composer Simon Boswell with whom he scored over 20 movies including A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Cousin Bette. He also collaborated on Elton John’s score to Women Talking Dirty and with members of Blur.
Since then he has gone on to become a successful movie composer, notably scoring many of Kevin Macdonald’s films. He travelled to Uganda to produce the soundtrack to The Last King of Scotland. He has proved successful in a variety of different genres including Steve Coogan’s The Parole Officer, Out of Reach with Steven Seagal and Trauma starring Colin Firth and Mena Suvari.
He has been nominated for BAFTA and Ivor Novello Awards.
He always conducts his own orchestral scores.
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- Born
- Sep 2, 1971
Beaconsfield - Also known as
- Heffes, Alex
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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