Dominic Lewis

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Background information
Birth nameDominic Alexander Charles Lewis
Born (1985-01-29) January 29, 1985 (age 39)
London, England
Genres Film and television scores, pop, rock, ambient, electronic, jazz
Occupation(s) Composer, singer
Instrument(s)Vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, guitar, cello
Years active2004–present

Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis (born January 29, 1985) is a British film and television composer and singer. He first worked on various music departments for film projects before transitioning into more solo work starting with Free Birds . His other credits includes The Man in the High Castle , DuckTales , Peter Rabbit , Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway , Monsters at Work , Bullet Train and The Fall Guy . He also served as the singing voice for Lurch in The Addams Family 2 and for Donald Duck in the DuckTales reboot.

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Life and career

Lewis was born and raised in London, England. Both his parents are musicians and he began learning the cello at age three.[ citation needed ] He also played the piano and guitar, sang in choirs, formed rock bands, and wrote songs while growing up. He cites his early influences as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Strauss, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, and Jimi Hendrix. [1] [2]

He studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was classically trained in cello and music composition. During his time there, he was under the mentorship of film composer, Rupert Gregson-Williams. [3] In 2009, Lewis relocated to Los Angeles, California to join Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions. He served in the music departments of various major studio films under composers Henry Jackman, John Powell and Ramin Djawadi, usually in the capacity of providing additional music. [4]

In 2014, Lewis was nominated for the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production for his work on the 2013 film Free Birds . In 2015, he was nominated for the World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year for the 2015 film Spooks: The Greater Good . [5] In 2016, he scored Jodie Foster's film Money Monster in under three weeks. [6] [7] [8]

Lewis's close collaboration with Henry Jackman, led to the pair scoring Amazon's The Man in the High Castle . Both Lewis and Jackman co-scored the first season, while the second, third and fourth were scored by Lewis alone. Speaking about the project, Lewis employed an orchestral method but infused it with various traditional and ethnic instruments. He also developed character themes and assigned instruments like the cello for Juliana Crain and the French horn for Joe Blake. [9] [10] [11]

In 2018, Lewis was hired to score the live-action/animated comedy film Peter Rabbit directed by Will Gluck. [12] He reunited with Gluck on the sequel, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway .

In 2022, he wrote the score for the film Bullet Train , marking his first collaboration with director David Leitch. [13] Lewis and Letich collaborated once again for the 2024 film, The Fall Guy . [14]

He is composing for Karate Kid: Legends , set to be released in May 2025. [15]

Filmography

Film

Main composer

YearTitleDirectorNotes
2011 Gift of the Night Fury Tom OwensShort film
Composed with John Powell
2013 Free Birds Jimmy Hayward
2015 The DUFF Ari Sandel First collaboration with Ari Sandel
Spooks: The Greater Good Bharat Nalluri Also known as MI-5
2016 Open Season: Scared Silly David Feiss Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams
Money Monster Jodie Foster Replaced Michael Andrews
Music produced by Henry Jackman
2017 Fist Fight Richie Keen
Rough Night Lucia Aniello
2018 Peter Rabbit Will Gluck First collaboration with Will Gluck
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween Ari Sandel Second collaboration with Ari Sandel
2020 My Spy Peter Segal
2021 Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway Will Gluck
Jolt Tanya Wexler
The King's Man Matthew Vaughn Composed with Matthew Margeson
2022 Bullet Train David Leitch First collaboration with David Leitch
Spirited Sean Anders Original songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul
Violent Night Tommy Wirkola
2024 Lift F. Gary Gray Composed with Guillaume Roussel
The Fall Guy David Leitch
2025 Karate Kid: Legends Jonathan EntwistleUpcoming film

Other credits

YearTitleRoleComposer(s)
2010 Clash of the Titans Additional music Ramin Djawadi
Gulliver's Travels Henry Jackman
How to Train Your Dragon Additional music arranger, programmer and orchestrator John Powell
2011 Rio Additional music
Rango Hans Zimmer
Kung Fu Panda 2 Hans Zimmer
John Powell
X-Men: First Class Henry Jackman
Puss in Boots
2012 Wreck-It-Ralph
2013 This Is the End
2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Additional music and featured vocalist
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Featured vocalistHans Zimmer
The Magnificent Six
Big Hero 6 Additional musicHenry Jackman
Kingsman: The Secret Service Henry Jackman
Matthew Margeson
2020 DuckTales Donald Duck's singing voice; Episode: "Louie's Eleven!"Himself
2021 The Addams Family 2 Lurch's singing voice; "I Will Survive" Mychael Danna
Jeff Danna
2023 Expend4bles Score producerGuillaume Roussel

Television

YearTitleNotes
2015 Kevin from Work 10 episodes
The Player 9 episodes
2015–2019 The Man in the High Castle 40 episodes, with Henry Jackman (Season 1)
2017–2021 DuckTales 69 episodes
2019–2020 The Rocketeer 22 episodes, with Beau Black
2021 Monsters at Work 14 episodes, with Daniel Futcher (Season 2)
2022 Baymax! 6 episodes [16]
2023 Kaleidoscope 8 episodes
2023–present My Adventures with Superman Composed with Daniel Futcher

Awards and nominations

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2014 Free Birds Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production Nominated [17] [18]
2015 Spooks: The Greater Good World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year Nominated [19] [20]

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