Isobel Waller-Bridge

Isobel Noeline Waller-Bridge (born 23 April 1984) is a British composer, known for her scores for film, television and the theatre, alongside her work in jazz, electronic music and contemporary classical music.[1]

Isobel Waller-Bridge
Born (1984-04-23) 23 April 1984
London, England
NationalityEnglish
Alma mater
OccupationComposer
RelativesPhoebe Waller-Bridge (sister)
Websiteisobelwaller-bridge.com

Life and career

Waller-Bridge studied for a bachelor's degree in music at Edinburgh University and a master's degree at King's College London. She was then awarded a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music, where she achieved a diploma.[2]

Waller-Bridge is known for being the composer of BBC comedy-drama series Fleabag (2016–2019), written by and starring her sister, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.[3] She also wrote the score for the feature film Vita and Virginia.[4]

She has performed in concert venues in London, such as at the St James Theatre and Union Chapel. In 2016, her music appeared on albums with the Icelandic composers Ólafur Arnalds and Jóhann Jóhannsson.[2]

Personal life

Waller-Bridge is the daughter of Theresa Mary Waller-Bridge (née Clerke) and Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge.[5] Her father founded the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, while her mother works for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.[6][7] Her parents are divorced.[8]

The Waller-Bridge family were landed gentry of Cuckfield, Sussex.[9][10] On her father's side, she is also a descendant of The Rev. Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876.[11][12] Her maternal grandfather was Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th baronet, of Hitcham, Buckinghamshire.[13]

Waller-Bridge has two younger siblings: Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Jasper Waller-Bridge.[1]

Works
  • Music for Strings (2013)[14]
Television
Film
  • Vita and Virginia (2018)
  • Emma. (2020)

References
  1. Nepilova, Hannah (15 November 2019). "Isobel Waller-Bridge on fame, Phoebe and going from Fleabag to Austen". The Financial Times. Retrieved 27 July 2020.
  2. Waller-Bridge, Isobel. "Biography". isobelwaller-bridge.com. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  3. "Isobel Waller-Bridge on the 'dream' of composing for Vanity Fair – and its 'weird similarities' to sister Phoebe's Fleabag". The Radio Times. 21 September 2018.
  4. "Isobel Waller-Bridge Used Elizabeth Debicki's Actual Heartbeat to Score 'Vita & Virginia'". indiewire. Retrieved 2019-12-02.
  5. Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. Debrett's Peerage Limited. 2011. p. 234.
  6. Hattenstone, Simon (8 September 2018). "Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I have an appetite for transgressive women'". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
  7. "Engagements: Mr C. T. P. Woodman and Ms P. M. Waller-Bridge". The Daily Telegraph. 18 January 2014. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  8. Day, Elizabeth (7 July 2016). "Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge on female anger, emotional honesty -and fancying Barack Obama". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 25 September 2016.
  9. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1976). Burke's Family Index. Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 18. ISBN 978-0850110227.
  10. Townend, Peter, ed. (1972). Burke's Landed Gentry. 3 (18th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. p. 532.
  11. Burke's Peerage, Knightage and Baronetage. 2 (107th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. 1 December 2003. p. 1646. ISBN 978-0971196629.
  12. Burke's Landed Gentry. 3 (18th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. 1965. p. 532.
  13. Burke's Peerage, Knightage and Baronetage. 1 (107th ed.). Burke's Peerage Limited. 1 December 2003. p. 819. ISBN 978-0971196629.
  14. "Isobel Waller-Bridge – Music for Strings". SoundCloud.
  15. "Isobel Waller-Bridge to Score BBC's 'The ABC Murders'". Filmmusicreporter.com. Retrieved 28 July 2020.
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