Daniel Sonabend is a London-based composer, music producer and sound artist. With a distinctive sound that blends contemporary classical orchestration, cinematic jazz harmony and innovative sound manipulation techniques, his music can be heard in a wide range of works, spanning across film, TV, documentaries and installation art.

Daniel’s recent credits include scoring the Netflix Original feature film Le Masque (Passion Pictures), Disney’s mini-series Cursed Gold (BBC Studios) and BBC’s documentary series Cold Case Investigations: Solving Britain’s Sex Crimes. Other recent works include co-scoring the award-winning documentary feature film Piano to Zanskar (alongside Werner Herzog’s composer Ernst Reijseger), writing additional music for Earthsounds (Apple TV+, narrated by Tim Hiddleston) and The Louis Theroux Interviews (BBC2) and providing additional arrangements for the BAFTA-nominated score of BBC’s mini-series House of Maxwell.

As a collaborator, Daniel has worked with acclaimed film composers such as Martin Phipps, Natalie Holt and Nainita Desai on numerous projects, such as Napoleon (dir. Ridley Scott), Loki (Marvel Studios), Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+), Journey’s End (Based on the R. C. Sherriff play), The Crown (Season 6), Gun No. 6 (2019 BAFTA winner for Best Single Documentary), Wildcat (2023 Emmy nominated score, Amazon Studios) and many more. In addition to his long-form work, Daniel composed music for award-winning short films and brand campaigns, including a string arrangement for John Lewis’ Moz the Monster, which was recorded by the band Elbow and directed by Michel Gondry.

Drawing from his British, Iraqi and Jewish heritage, Daniel grew up in the jazz and contemporary music scene, quickly becoming a sought after arranger, music producer and multi-instrumentalist. Specialising on bass and piano and often performing on his own compositions, he proceeded to study at the Rimon School of Music and University of Westminster under acclaimed composers and avant-garde artists such as Shirley Thompson OBE and Steve Beresford, and quickly became known for his unique approach to sound crafting, his attention to detail with orchestration and texture, and his emotive and forward-thinking music.

Alongside film and TV, Daniel composes music and sound art for award-winning installations, often centred around themes of nature, nurture, scent and spirituality. His work has been presented at the Museum of Future in Dubai, Palais de Tokyo, the Grand Museum of Perfume in Paris, The Royal Academy of Arts in London, De Electriciteitsfabriek at The Hague and The Louvre in Abu Dhabi to name a few. When not working on a commission, he produces music albums and regularly collaborates with other artists, such as Eliza Shaddad with whom he created the Arab/Jewish experimental electronic-jazz music duo Sandscape, with their debut album to be released in late 2025.