Alex's score to the epic wildlife feature documentary The Elephant Queen has been recorded at Air Lyndhurst in London. The score features over 90 mins of music for large orchestra, African vocals and percussion.
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Alex's Score to Hulu's 11.22.63 was awarded top streaming TV series of 2017. Alex performed music from his score with live orchestra at ASCAPs awards event at the Wiltern theatre Los Angeles.
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The classic mountaineering documentary drama Touching The Void was screened at the Barbican concert Hall in London accompanied by live orchestra. Alex conducted the orchestra to Kevin Macdonald's BAFTA award winning film for an enthusiastic London audience. Joe Simpson, the author of the best selling book on which the film was based was at the performance and gave a pre-concert talk with Kevin, Alex and John Smithson, the film's producer. Alex's score to Touching The Void has been featured countless times on film and TV since it was first written.
The BBC has released its first trailer for EARTH: ONE AMAZING DAY. The sequel to the huge box office success EARTH is directed by Peter Webber and Richard Dale and is narrated by the Oscar-winning American movie icon, Robert Redford. The BBC is the world's undisputed leader in wildlife film making and Earth brings it's latest cutting edge technology and high definition shooting to a whole new level on the big screen. Demon Music Group are releasing Alex Heffes’ stunning original motion picture soundtrack as a digital download and streaming from Friday 7th July to be followed by CD and vinyl soundtrack releases when the film hits theatres this autumn.
Alex has won a Hollywood Music In Media Awards for his score for Roots. The 7th annual Hollywood Music In Media Awards was held Thursday at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Other winners included Nicholas Britell for 'Moonlight', John Debney for 'The Jungle Book', Alexandre Desplat for 'The Secret Life of Pets' and Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Shellback for 'Can’t Stop the Feeling' from 'Trolls'
Roots, which premiered on the History Channel in the US, featured a stellar cast including Laurence Fishburne , Forest Whitaker, Anika Noni Rose & Jonathan Rhys Meyers. The 4 part miniseries is set over 4 generations of the same family. The series garnered rave reviews and a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Alex's score contains more than 4 hours of music and features singers and players recorded in Gambia as well as African percussion and orchestra.
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