Alex Heffes - UK Composer/Conductor for Touching the Void, The Last King of Scotland, and State of Play

Published: Oct. 31, 2010, 10 p.m.

UK film composer, Alex Heffes, has created film scores that include many of award-winning films for director Kevin Macdonald such as One Day in September, Touching the Void, and The Last King of Scotland.

Alex has proved successful in a variety of genres including the comedy The Parole Officer, the action film Out of Reach and Kevin Macdonald's political espionage thriller State of Play.

Alex\u2019s scores have been nominated for BAFTA, Ivor Novello, European Film Academy, and ASCAP awards. Alex always conducts his own orchestral scores.

Some of Alex\u2019s more recent film scoring projects include the documentary Inside Job directed by Charles Ferguson, and Justin Chadwick\u2019s debut feature The First Grader.