Isobel Waller-Bridge

Isobel Waller-Bridge is a British composer.

Biography
Waller-Bridge was educated at Edinburgh University where she graduated with a 1st Class Hons degree. She subsequently continued her studies at King's College London where she received her Masters in Composition, and then also at the Royal Academy of Music, where she earned her performance diploma as a pianist. She was involved in a 2009 London Chamber Orchestra scheme to perform young composers' pieces in front of the artwork which inspired them, An Allegory of Venus and Cupid.

Film and television
Waller-Bridge has recently contributed music to the BBC natural history programmes, Life and Frozen Planet:Freeze Frames. As an arranger and orchestrator, Waller-Bridge has worked with a number of film composers including George Fenton, Stephen Warbeck and Anne Nikitin.

Her music has been supported by The Musicians Benevolent Fund, The Wates Foundation and the PRS Foundation. Her work has also received the Bucher Fraser Award for composition.

Radio and theatre
She has worked with The National Theatre, Soho Theatre , Bush Theatre, The Young Vic, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Radio 3, Radio 4, Samsung and The Times. Her compositions for theatre pieces have included The Girl with the Iron Claws, Head Music   , Heart In Mouth    and A Christmas Carol.