Daniel Sonabend is a London-based composer, music producer and sound artist. With a distinctive sound that blends his jazz background with contemporary orchestration and inventive studio techniques, his music can be heard in a wide range of works, spanning across film, TV, album releases 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) as well as providing arrangements for the BAFTA-nominated score of BBC’s mini-series House of Maxwell.

As a collaborator, Daniel has worked 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 has worked on award-winning short films and brand campaigns, including John Lewis’ Moz the Monster (dir. Michel Gondry), featuring the Beatles’ Golden Slumbers, recorded by the band Elbow.

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

Alongside film and TV work, Daniel composes music and sound art for award-winning installations, often centred around themes of spirituality, scent and nature. His work has been presented worldwide, including 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 scores, Daniel produces music albums and regularly collaborates or performs with other artists, including Eliza Shaddad with whom he created the Arab/Jewish experimental electronic-jazz music duo Sandscape, with their debut full-length album to be released in 2026.