David Schweitzer

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LATEST NEWS

Look out for 'The True Story' series on Five for which David wrote the music (9pm Wednesdays in April and May). This is a series of documentaries about the real characters on which famous film were based (James Bond, Indiana Jones and The Amityville Horror are among the subjects).

David has just finished working on the RTS award-winning score for Charlie & Lola for Tiger Aspect. He has also been scoring many other films and documentaries, as well as another children's show, Tommy Zoom for CBeebies.

He is currently working on the score to a major new series for BBC as well as two feature documentaries.

You can listen to clips from David's soundtracks on the FILM & TV page (video clips will be available when the new website goes online shortly). You can download and print David's CV here.

RECENT AWARDS

Charlie & Lola (Series 2) recently won 'Best Original Score' for 2006-7 at the Royal Television Society Craft Awards. The winner was announced at the Savoy on 29th November 2007, and the jury had these lovely words to say about the music for the show: "Totally new, inspired, varied, incredible and a minor miracle!". David and fellow-composer John Greswell are totally delighted, especially as it was the only children's programme nominated in any of the award categories.

Charlie & Lola (Series 2) also won 'Best Pre-School Series' at the 2007 Children's BAFTAs and walked away with the same prize at the 2008 British Animation Awards. The show has picked up a raft of other accolades including 'Best Children's Show' in the Broadcast Awards 2007.

City of Cranes has received the best documentary award at the 2008 Full Frame Film Festival.

Asylum, Jenni Linko's excellent film about two Afgan boys and a Somali girl seeking asylum in Finland, recently won the Documentary Film Prize at Germany's Lubeck Film Festival. The film was broadcast on the Finnish YLE Channel, and had a very nice write up in the main Finnish broadsheet, which also mentioned the film having 'wonderful music'.

Sunny Intervals and Showers, Jonathan Levitt's documentary about manic depression was one of four films recently nominated for the prestigious Grierson award in this year's British Documentary Awards. It was also nominated for Best Documentary at the Mental Health Media Awards held at BAFTA. David is working on Jonathan's very exciting new feature project.

ARTSONGS

ArtSongs, by Agnes & Aubrey (of which David is a half) is a CD of songs about artists, commissioned by the Tate. It's got ten quirky, fact-filled songs on, and can be bought from any of the Tate Gallery's shops, or ordered from their Online Store or from Amazon.co.uk. It is also now available in the US, e.g. from Amazon. You can listen to a couple of the songs here.

David is working on another CD of non art-related songs. You can buy previous CDs here.