Alex Baranowski

Alex Baranowski is a multi-award-winning composer whose collaborators include some of the most celebrated artists and filmmakers of their generation. Recent film work includes co-scoring Daniel Kaluuya’s debut feature, The Kitchen (Netflix / Film 4), alongside Labrinth, as well as Gaumont/Netflix film Locked In (Netflix), The Teacher, Midas Man (Amazon), and Brides, which premiered at Sundance in 2025.

Other film scores include the twice BAFTA-nominated feature McCullin (Curzon), Nureyev (Universal Film), A Christmas Carol, and the critically acclaimed A Gaza Weekend (Alcove Entertainment). In 2021, he won the Les Arcs award for Harry Wootliff’s True Things (The Bureau / BBC). His score for The Windermere Children (BBC / Warner Bros) garnered a BAFTA nomination and won the Prix Europa Award for Best TV Movie, with a soundtrack released by Sony Classical. Television credits include HBO series Rain Dogs (HBO / Sid Gentle), Frauds (ITV), and three series of the hit show Staged (BBC). In commercials, he has scored shorts for directors including Wes Anderson (H&M) and Taika Waititi.

Nominated for a Tony Award for The Cripple of Inishmaan on Broadway, Alex has composed for numerous theatre productions around the world. These include Frankenstein (National Theatre) with Danny Boyle and Underworld, and A Streetcar Named Desire starring Gillian Anderson, with whom Alex went on to score her directorial debut, The Departure. Most recently, he scored a new version of Cyrano de Bergerac (RSC), transferring to the West End in 2026. His work in ballet includes the South Bank Award-winning Nineteen Eighty-Four (Sadler’s Wells) and Legacy Variations (Dutch National Ballet).

As a composer and sound designer, Alex created the distinct soundtrack for BBC Two’s idents, the 2026 Winter Olympics theme, and the last two World Cup themes. His collaborations with artists include working with The xx and the BBC Philharmonic (performed at the Hollywood Bowl), as well as Jungle, Clean Bandit, and Labrinth, for whom he arranged orchestra for Coachella and fashion shows for Valentino, Balenciaga and Carter. He has also collaborated with virtuoso violinists Daniel Hope and Angèle Dubeau, the latter of whom released an album of Alex’s work, Portrait.

FILM

Brides (2024)
Studio: Neon Films
Producers: Nicky Bentham, Marica Stocchi
Director: Nadia Fall

Midas Man (2024)
Studio: StudioPOW
Producers: Trevor Beattie, Jeremy Chatterton, Billy Dietrich, Richard Holmes
Director: Joe Stephenson

The Kitchen (2023)
Studio: DMC / Netflix
Producers: Daniel Emmerson, Daniel Kaluuya
Directors: Daniel Kaluuya, Kibwe Tavares

Locked In (2023)
Studio: Gaumont / Netflix
Producer: Nicky Bentham
Director: Nour Wazzi

The Teacher (2023)
Studio: Cocoon Films
Producers: Sawsan Asfari, Ossama Bawardi, Farah Nabulsi
Director: Farah Nabulsi

A Gaza Weekend (2022)
Studio: Alcove Entertainment
Producer: Amina Dasmal
Director: Basis Khalil

True Things (2021)
Studio: BBC Films
Producers: Tristan Goligher, Ben Jackson, Jude Law, Ruth Wilson
Director: Harry Wootliff

Burial (2021)
Studio: BBC Films
Producers: Paul Higgins, Matthew James Wilkinson
Director: Ben Parker

The Windermere Children (2020)
Studio: Wall to Wall Television/PBS
Producer: Alison Sterling
Director: Michael Samuels

A Christmas Carol (2020)
Studio: Frith Street Films
Producers: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Directors: David Morris, Jacqui Morris

Mabel (2019)
Studio: Pina Pictures
Producer: Kimberley Wintle
Director: Kimberley Wintle

Kes Reimagined (2019)
Producer: Martin Collins
Director: Ross MacGibbon

Nureyev: Lifting the Curtain (2018)
Studio: Frith Street Films
Producers: David Morris, Jacqui Morris
Directors: David Morris, Jacqui Morris

HLA (2018)
Studio: Ictus Films
Producer: Valentina Fedonos
Director: Valentina Fedonos

Hamlet (2015)
Studio: Film Movement
Producers: Anne Beresford, Debbie Gray
Directors: Sarah Frankcom, Margaret Williams

Attacking the Devil: Harold Evans and the Last Nazi War Crime (2014)
Studio: British Film Company
Producer: Bob Weinstein
Directors: David Morris, Jacqui Morris

NT Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)
Producer: Joshua Andrews
Director: Benedict Andrews
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We Are Many (2014)
Studio: Amirani Media
Producer: Amir Amirani
Director: Amir Amirani

The Departure (short) (2014)
Studio: Young Vic Short Films
Producers: Lauren Dark, Anna Jameson
Director: Gillian Anderson

McCullin (2012)
Studio: British Film Company
Producers: David Morris, Jancqui Morris
Directors: David Morris, Jancqui Morris

N.F.A (No Fixed Abode) (2012)
Studio: 104 Films
Producers: Justin Edgar, Anna Savill, Alex Usborne
Director: Steve Rainbow

TV

Frauds (2025)
Studio: Canary Pictures Vehicles / ITV
Creators: Suranne Jones, Anne-Marie O'Connor

Staged (2020-2023)
Studio: BBC
Creator: Simon Evans

Rain Dogs (2023)
Studio: HBO / BBC
Creator: Cash Carraway

1984, a Ballet by Jonathan Watkins (2016)
Studio: BBC4
Writers: George Orwell, Jonathan Watkins  
Director: Ross MacGibbon

Wizards vs. Aliens (Orchestrator) (2012)
Studio: BBC Wales
Producers: Phil Ford, Russell T. Davies
Directors: Paul Murphey, Joss Agnew, Mark Everest

THEATRE
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National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2010)
Writer: William Shakespeare
Production Designers: Jon Clark – Vicki Mortimer
Director: Nicholas Hytner