About
Benjamin Doherty is a composer for film, TV and theatre. Alongside composing, he has experience with each process of producing music (or audio) including recording and mixing. He holds a 1st Class Honours degree in Creative Music Production from Oxford Brookes University.
He has composed scores for films that have been supported by institutes such as the BFI, Sundance Institute and Sky Arts. His work has been selected at BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying festivals including: BFI Flare, Aesthetica, deadCenter, Norwich Film festival, Austin Film Festival and Bolton Film Festival. His work has also featured as part of the Sundance Indigenous Shorts Tour on the short “The Original Shareholder Experience”.
He has received multiple awards from international film festivals, winning at the Oniros New York Awards and at the Red Movie Awards for his score for the film “Hunting Bears”. Other awards include ‘‘Best Score’’ at the Hollywood Film Competition for the short ‘‘7 Minutes’’, and ‘‘Best Original Score’’ at the Independent Shorts Awards for the short ‘‘Storytellers’’.
This year Benjamin worked with Hasbro, composing the score for the first and only official Dungeons & Dragons on-stage production “The Twenty Sided Tavern”, premiering in New York. Previous productions have gone on to perform sell out shows at Pittsburgh, New York, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Chicago.
As a composer, Benjamin always aspires to compose character and thematic driven music. Each score manages to balance genre conventions and expectations with character motives and development, creating scores that work seamlessly alongside the film’s narrative.