Ben Rowarth

 Film and tv

(Above: ‘Return’, Sophia Carr Gomm, 2024)

Ben has composed music for Film, TV, Documentaries, Live Theatre and Podcasts. He has received multiple nominations and awards for his work including Best Original Score at BAFTA qualifying CBFF (UK), WMIFF (Washington DC), and Best Documentary Soundtrack Award (Leeds International Film Festival). He has also worked as a performing artist on soundtracks by John Powell and Benjamin Wallfisch, on feature films including ‘How to train your dragon’ and ‘Chicken Run’, and regularly contributing towards recordings in Abbey Road and Air Lyndhurst Studios, most recently for BBC’s latest series of Strictly Come Dancing.

2024/25 saw the soundtracks to a BBC Travel Show Documentary (airing to more than 6 million viewers last year), and ‘Return’, a new short film by Sophia Carr Gomm that has since gone on to receive multiple awards and nominations. Recent releases include the soundtrack to new short film “Yours Is The Earth” (directed by Finn Lusty) and the BBC ‘Music and Meditation’ Podcast. Ben is currently composing the score for a short film by Sophia Carr Gomm (‘Little Wing’), which is due to be released in 2026 and a feature film by Alessia Mandanici (‘Wiegenlied’).