Biggi Hilmars - Icelandic film score composer
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"I had the privilege of working with Biggi on Grenfell: Our Home - a prestigious VR piece for UK broadcaster Channel 4. The music he composed was sensitive, beautiful and complimented the story note perfect. The film has so far won 4 and been nominated for 6 awards and I’m sure Biggi’s soundtrack is a key ingredient that has lead to its success. I can’t wait to work with him again."

​~  Jonathan Rudd - Creative Director, Parable Works

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"Icelandic composers & musicians have mastered the fusion of classical & popular music & Biggi Hilmars is no exception. His music retains the unique beauty & cinematic soundscape that encompasses my love for the sound of Iceland."

​~ Sarah Bridge, Music Supervisor (The Crown, Bridgerton, The Theory of Everything)

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"Biggi’s sound is otherworldly and feels like it opens up a door to another world, which he invites you to enter."

​~Vala Omarsdottir, director & performance maker

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"I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and working with Biggi for years.  His music consistently inspires, and always feels both contemporary and timeless at the same time.  It is beautifully crafted music that transports you to another time and place."

​~ Rudy Chung, Music supervisor, Netflix

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"The music Biggi Hilmars is making on Ephemeral Dream is so powerful,
emotional and sensitive. It inspires and gives me peace at the same time." 


~ Cecilie Mosli, director and actress

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"Biggi is always a joy to work with. He goes to great lengths to understand briefs, and really puts his heart into the compositions he delivers.
His range is wide, but my favourite work by Biggi has a very melodic and magical quality. It was great to work with him on Thomsons and record his score together at Abbey Road, where the music really came to life."


​~  Dan Neale, Managing director, Native Music

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“It was an absolute pleasure to collaborate with Biggi on this project. I’d been aware of his fantastic work for a while and was waiting for the right project to come along. The score for this film was a hugely important part of the project for AMV BBDO and SHEBA and I had every confidence that Biggi was the right composer for this job. He was incredibly communicative and receptive to feedback from beginning to end which made shaping and crafting the composition to picture a very smooth and enjoyable process. The resulting soundtrack is absolutely beautiful and has the perfect balance of the dark opening through to the uplifting ending. I’m delighted to have been able to work with Biggi on this film and look forward to working with him again in the future.”
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~ James Radford, music supervisor

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Iceland's Biggi Hilmars' distinctive, provocative sound, described as having ‘unique beauty’, has fast cemented his status as a unique and prolific film composer. Having made a name for himself for his work on film scores, television, movie trailers and commercials, he has also released four solo albums. With his roots firmly planted in neoclassical, his cinematic soundscapes encapsulate the picturesque beauty of Iceland. His beautifully crafted, melodic music consistently inspires and always feels both contemporary and timeless, taking the listener on a journey.

Recent Film and TV credits include the original score for the Grierson Trust award-winning factual feature documentary 'A Year in the Ice: Arctic Drift’.  The Nordic TV drama series 'Thin Ice' (Yellowbird & Sagafilm), for which he was nominated for the best score and album at The Icelandic Music Awards 2021. The Grierson Trust award-winning feature documentary 'The Last Igloo', produced by Swan Films for BBC4, the National Geographic adventure series 'Fiennes: Return to the Nile' starring Joseph and Ranulph Fiennes, 'Beeba Boys', a feature film directed by Academy Award nominee Deepa Mehta and the multi award-winning Channel 4 VR documentary 'Grenfell Our Home', directed by Jonathan Rudd.  Biggi is currently co-composing the feature documentary 
'Wilding' with english artist Jon Hopkins, directed by multi Emmy-award winner David Allen and a BBC ft. documentary series called 'Wild Scandinavia', directed by multi award- winning Tuppence Stone (Human Planet, Wild Alaska), which is coming out in early 2023.

Biggi's music has been used on numerous film trailers, including HBO’S ‘Olive Kitteridge’, Winner of 7 Emmy Awards, ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ directed by Thomas Vinterberg and his music has been featured in commercials for brands such as Apple, Mercedes Benz, Skoda, Hyundai, Thomson Holidays (TUI) and his latest score for the Sheba - 'The Film That Grows Coral', which just won a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions 2022; a film that aims to to help restore coral reefs around the world

As a child Biggi was drawn into the magic of music via old records that he would listen to as a child with his father who also played musical instruments. By the age of 15 he had  clearly inherited his father skills and was playing in a psychedelic rock band and had begun writing his own material.  He formed the group Ampop in 1998 with a friend, who created an interesting mixture of electronic, ambient and pop music, releasing their debut album ‘Made for Market’ in 2002 with Thule Music (IS) and Static Caravan (UK), followed by their hit album ‘My Delusions’ (2006), released by Sena records (IS) and Relentless Records (UK). They became extremely popular in Iceland and won numerous awards for their albums and songwriting and went on to tour the world, supporting bands such as The Zutons, KT Tunstall and Queens of the Stone Age and gained support from radio legends Zane Lowe and the late John Peel.

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"I had the privilege of working with Biggi on Grenfell: Our Home - a prestigious VR piece for UK broadcaster Channel 4. The music he composed was sensitive, beautiful and complimented the story note perfect. The film has so far won 4 and been nominated for 6 awards and I’m sure Biggi’s soundtrack is a key ingredient that has lead to its success. I can’t wait to work with him again."

​~  Jonathan Rudd - Creative Director, Parable Works

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"Icelandic composers & musicians have mastered the fusion of classical & popular music & Biggi Hilmars is no exception. His music retains the unique beauty & cinematic soundscape that encompasses my love for the sound of Iceland."

​~ Sarah Bridge, Music Supervisor (The Crown, Bridgerton, The Theory of Everything)

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"Biggi’s sound is otherworldly and feels like it opens up a door to another world, which he invites you to enter."

​~Vala Omarsdottir, director & performance maker

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"I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and working with Biggi for years.  His music consistently inspires, and always feels both contemporary and timeless at the same time.  It is beautifully crafted music that transports you to another time and place."

​~ Rudy Chung, Music supervisor, Netflix

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"The music Biggi Hilmars is making on Ephemeral Dream is so powerful,
emotional and sensitive. It inspires and gives me peace at the same time." 


~ Cecilie Mosli, director and actress

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"Biggi is always a joy to work with. He goes to great lengths to understand briefs, and really puts his heart into the compositions he delivers.
His range is wide, but my favourite work by Biggi has a very melodic and magical quality. It was great to work with him on Thomsons and record his score together at Abbey Road, where the music really came to life."


​~  Dan Neale, Managing director, Native Music

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“It was an absolute pleasure to collaborate with Biggi on this project. I’d been aware of his fantastic work for a while and was waiting for the right project to come along. The score for this film was a hugely important part of the project for AMV BBDO and SHEBA and I had every confidence that Biggi was the right composer for this job. He was incredibly communicative and receptive to feedback from beginning to end which made shaping and crafting the composition to picture a very smooth and enjoyable process. The resulting soundtrack is absolutely beautiful and has the perfect balance of the dark opening through to the uplifting ending. I’m delighted to have been able to work with Biggi on this film and look forward to working with him again in the future.”
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FILM & TV WORK

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A Year in the Ice: Arctic Drift

2021

Full ft. adventure documentary

Director / producer: Ashley Morris

Producer:  Fremantle & Wild Blue Media

Music supervision: Rachel Menzies at BMG

Composer: Biggi Hilmars
Awards:
Winner - Best Science documentary, Grierson Awards 2022

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Thin Ice

2020

Nordic TV drama (8 episodes)

Directors: Cecilie Mosli
Thale Persen, Gudjon Jonsson

Producer:  Yellow Bird and Sagafilm

Composer: Biggi Hilmars
Awards:
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Nominated – Best original score & album in Film & TV category at The Icelandic Music Awards 2021​
Nominated – International Panorama & Audience Award 2020, Series Mania (France)

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The Last Igloo

2019

Feature documentary

Director: Christian Collerton

Producer:  Swan Films for BBC FOUR

Music: Biggi Hilmars
Awards:
Winner – Natural History, Grierson Awards 2020
Gold Medal Winner – New York Film & TV Festival 2020

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​Fiennes: Return to the Nile
​(aka Egypt with the World's Greatest Explorer (US)

2019

TV documentary series (3 episodes)

Director: Matt Dyas

Producer:  Woodcut Media for
​National Geographic

Theme music: Biggi Hilmars

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Grenfell: Our Home

2018

Virtual Reality Documentary

Director: Jonathan Rudd

Producer:  Parable and 59 Productions for Channel 4

Music: Biggi Hilmars
Awards:
Winner 'Best doc VR experience' - Raindance Film Festival 2018
Winner 'Alt. realities Audience Award' - Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
Winner 2019 - The British Arrows Awards
Winner 'Creative VR Award' - Limina Awards 2018 

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Brash Young Turks

2016

Feature film (chrime thriller)

Director: Naeem Mahmood,
​Ash Mahmood

Producer:  Trailblazer Films

Music: Biggi Hilmars and Edwin Sykes
Awards:
Winner 'Best UK movie' - Movie video & Screen Awards  2016

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Beeba Boys

2015

Feature film (crime drama)

Director: Deepa Mehta

Producer:  Hamilton-Mehta Productions

Music: Biggi Hilmars
Awards:
Nominated – Best Canadian Feature film, Toronto International Film Festival 2015

  ADDITIONAL FILM, TV & THEATRE SCORES:

• Wild Scandinavia (BBC in collaboration with PBS, TV doc series, composer, 2022-2023)

• Wilding (Passion Pictures, Ft. documentary, co-composer, 2022-2023)

• Proximity (Vinnslan in collaboration w. Shakespeare Theatre, Gdansk, theatre, composer, 2022-2023)


• Sprungur (aka Fractures) (Moli productions, short film, composer, 2021)

• Tæring (Menningarfelag Akureyrar, site specific theatre piece, composer, 2020)

• Daetur (Gervi productions, short film, composer, 2018)

​• Far From The Madding Crowd (Fox Searchlight Pictures, official movie trailer 2016)

• Mamma aetlar ad sofna (Gervi productions, short film, composer, 2016)

• I Smile Back (Broadgreen Pictures, official movie trailer, 2014)

• Reindeer Family and Me (BBC2, feature documentary, composer, 2014)

• Impact (Elf Films, feature documentary, composer, 2014)


• Rof (Vinnslan, short film, composer, 2014)

• My Brother the Ark Raider (BBC2, feature documentary, co-composer, 2013) 

• Harry’s Mountain Heroes (ITV1, dir. Alexis Girardet, official trailer, 2012) 

• Life in A Day (A Scott Free Production, Ridley Scott, movie trailer, 2011) 

• Konfekt (Icelandic Film Centre, Sagafilm, short film, composer, 2011) 

• Subculture (Berserk Films, short film, composer, 2011) 

• Future of Hope (Spier Films, feature documentary, composer, 2010)

• Kristofer (Ljosband Films, short film, composer, 2010)

• Dream in Places (Open Your Eyes & Listen, short film, composer, 2010)

• Heaven on Earth (Deepa Mehta/Hamilton Prod., feat. film, ft. music, 2009)

• Sun of Wisdom (Open Your Eyes & Listen, short film, composer, 2009)

• The World Record Holder in the Lighthouse (JKH, feat. doc., composer, 2009)

• Every Colour of the Sea is Cold (AX films, mini TV drama series, composer, 2005)

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...MORE THEATRE & DANCE SCORES:
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• Strengir (Vinnslan, mixed media performance piece, composer/music dir., 2014)

• Episodes (aka Timar) (Icelandic Dance Company, Helena Jonsdottir, dance piece 2013)

• Tamam Shud (One Theatre group, Iceland, composer, 2013)

• Skápur nr. 7 (Vinnslan Theatre Group, composer, 2012)

• As Soon As They Know Me (Maddid, London, composer, 2011)

​• Ghost Song Cabaret (Admiration Theatre, London, composer, 2009)
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