David Schweitzer

David Schweitzer is an award-winning composer whose film and television projects range from feature films to animation, documentary and drama. He is just as comfortable writing a full orchestral score as he is creating wild soundscapes on his ever-expanding modular synth setup. Schweitzer’s previous work for National Geographic includes music for INSIDE NORTH KOREA’S DYNASTY and the recent series of NARCO WARS. Other documentary projects include “Wonders of Life,” “The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty” and “Britain from Above” (all for the BBC), “Moon Landing Live” (for Channel 4) and the upcoming Netflix anthology series “Bad Sport.”

His recent score for the 2020 film “Emma.,” co-composed with Isobel Waller-Bridge, earned an ASCAP Award and two IFMCA nominations. He has also written music for “The White Princess” (for STARZ, with John Lunn), “Victoria” (for PBS, with Ruth Barrett), “Vanity Fair” (for Amazon, again with Waller-Bridge), and “The Crown” (for Netflix, with Martin Phipps). Schweitzer is also well known for his themes and scores for some of the most iconic animated shows of the last fifteen years (“Angry Birds Toons,” “Charlie and Lola,” “The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That,” “Miffy’s Adventures Big and Small”). His work on “Charlie and Lola” earned him the Royal Television Society Award for Best Original Score—the only time a children’s series has won the category. He has also been nominated for an Emmy® and a BAFTA.

Schweitzer has recently co-written the book “A History of Music for Children” (published by Thames & Hudson), which is coming out in August 2021. Under the moniker of In Analysis, and using his collection of vintage synthesizers, Schweitzer released a concept album of songs about mothers based on stories people have written anonymously. He is a relative of the four-time Oscar®-nominated composer Friedrich Hollaender, most famous for writing Marlene Dietrich’s song “Falling in Love Again.”