September 2021

Lakeshore records releases The Arctic - Our Last Great Wilderness

Lakeshore Records has released Alex's original score to the giant screen film The Arctic Our Last Great Wilderness. Alex's magical score was recorded with orchestra and Choir at the Synchron stage in Vienna and accompanies stunning imagery of Polar bear and other creatures in the American Arctic Refuge. The film is directed by award winning National Geographic photographer Florian Schulz and narrated by Princess Daazhraii Johnson (Neet'saii Gwich'in). The film is set to release in IMAX® and giant screen theaters through 2021 and 2022.

Find out more about how you can help protect the Arctic at: https://www.protectthearctic.org

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https://lnk.to/wfukUImw

August 2021

Alex Nominated for Ivor Novello Award

Alex has been nominated for an Ivor Novello award with co-composer Anoushka Shankar in the The Ivors with Apple Music 2021 for A Suitable Boy in the category of best TV soundtrack. This marks Alex's third Ivor Novello nomination (in 2012 he won Film score of the year). A Suitable Boy is Alex's second collaboration with director Mira Nair (Queen Of Katwe). It can be watched world wide on Netflix, on BBC iPlayer in the UK and Acorn TV in North America. The soundtrack is available on Silva Screen Records.

https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4e1bHJrqgBMYVYobZS4N

Janurary 2021

Together Apart - Digital Single Released

Alex Heffes' Together Apart is released today as a digital single on all streaming platforms. Written in the few days before Christmas 2020 and recorded remotely in the US and UK, Alex writes the below thoughts.

Click here to listen: https://lnk.to/together-apart

The experience of being isolated from each other is probably the largest collective experience we have had in a generation. It was a year of loneliness for many, confusion, loss, and some hope. Music shortcuts through the language and reasoning part of our experience to somewhere deeper. For anyone who has felt any of the above this year I hope this might reach that deeper place and give solace that we are apart but together. AH

Janurary 2021

HMMA Nomination for Alex's Score To The 24th

Alex's score to Kevin Wilmott's WWI drama The 24th has been nominated in the 2021 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) in the category of 'Best Original Score - Independent Film. The film which stars Trai Byers, Bashir Salahuddin, Aja Naomi King & Mykelti Williamson depicts the tragic events leading to the Houston Riot of 1917 and the resulting largest murder trial in US history. The 24th is now playing on Amazon and other streaming services.

November 2020

Air-Edel Records Releases Soundtrack to Hope Gap

Air-Edel Records today announces the E.P. release of Alex Heffes’ original score for William Nicholson's ‘Hope Gap’. Starring Annette Benning, Bill Nighy and Josh O’Connor, ‘Hope Gap’ tells the story of Grace who lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town until her husband of 29 years tells her he's leaving her for another woman. Alex's spare and melodic piano score has been called "haunting", "richly textured" and "superb" by critics. The album is available across all major digital platforms including iTunes, Amazon and Spotify.