Sylvia STRAND – Composer, Songwriter, and Sound Designer
Over the past two decades, composer and vocalist, Sylvia Strand, and composing partner, Jonathan Gregory have scored numerous award-winning TV-series, drama-shorts, and feature documentaries, including My Art and M.E. which was nominated for best original score at Norway’s TV-awards, epic two-parter Fearless featuring Kristofer Hivju (G.O.T, The Witcher, Cocaine Bear) and The Last Union, screened at the Palais des Festival, Cannes 2022.
Over the past two decades have scored numerous award-winning TV-series, drama-shorts, and feature documentaries, including My Art and M.E. which was nominated for best original score at Norway’s TV-awards, epic two-parter Fearless featuring Kristofer Hivju (G.O.T, The Witcher, Cocaine Bear) and The Last Union, screened at the Palais des Festival, Cannes 2022.
As well as scoring, Sylvia and Jonathan are regularly asked to write theme tunes, idents, and original songs, often featuring Sylvia’s voice, most recently the theme tune, end credits and full score for a six-part series for Scandi-streamer Altibox, Kjolesnekkeren, released in March 2023.
Sylvia and Jonathan’s soundtrack to the art film, Hunting the Light, featuring several of their original songs, outsold Frozen and the Hobbit in the first week of release. Their songs have also been used as part of emotive VTs by BBC Sport during Wimbledon and 6 Nation Rugby coverage.
The last three years have been a whirlwind of achievements for Sylvia and Jonathan – In 2021 they signed to Viacom/CBS for an 8-part series entitled True Viking, which required them to upgrade their studio to full Cinematic 7-1-4 Dolby Atmos; one of only 3 in Wales. In 2022 they hit the red carpet in Cannes, where a short film they scored ‘The Last Union’ was screened in the Palais des Festivals. On their return from France, in May 2022, alongside their Film/TV composing, Sylvia and Jon embarked on their largest project to date, a yearlong Bilingual Dolby Atmos composition collaboration Our Space – Ein Lle Ni. The project features 3 of the best Welsh Male Choirs, Pelenna, Pendyrus and Treorchy, as well as award winning Llwydcoed Brass band, among many others. The project will culminate in a World First, a 10 track Album composed and conceived specifically for Dolby Atmos, featuring all Welsh performers.
Current Film/TV projects include a BBC Comedy Pilot, as well as Sweet Dreams starring Rosalind Elazar (from Apple TV’s Slow Horses) and Georgia Goodman (from Netflix’ Wednesday).
