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Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis (born January 29, 1985) is a British film and television composer. 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, and Monsters at Work. He serves as the singing voice of Lurch in The Addams Family 2, and of Donald Duck in the DuckTales.

Dominic Lewis
Lewis in 2016
Background information
Birth name	Dominic Alexander Charles Lewis
Born	(1985-01-29) January 29, 1985 (age 37) London, England
Genres	Film and television scores
Occupation(s)	Composer, singer
Instruments	Vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar, cello
Years active	2004–present

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 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 animated comedy film, Peter Rabbit directed by Will Gluck.[12] He reunited with Gluck on the sequel, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway.

Filmography

Film

Main composer

Year	Title	Notes
2011	Gift of the Night Fury	Composed with John Powell
2013	Free Birds	Nominated — Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production (2014)
2015	The DUFF	First collaboration with Ari Sandel
	Spooks: The Greater Good	Nominated — World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year (2015) Also known as MI-5
2016	Open Season: Scared Silly	Composed with Rupert Gregson-Williams
	Money Monster	Music produced by Henry Jackman
2017	Fist Fight
	Rough Night
2018	Peter Rabbit	First collaboration with Will Gluck
	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween	Second collaboration with Ari Sandel
2020	My Spy
2021	Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway	Second collaboration with Will Gluck
	Jolt
	The King's Man	Composed with Matthew Margeson
2022	Bullet Train

Other credits

Year	Title	Role	Composer(s)
2010	Clash of the Titans	Additional music	Ramin Djawadi
	How to Train Your Dragon	Additional music arranger, programmer and orchestrator	John Powell
2011	Rio	Additional music
	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 vocalist	Hans Zimmer The Magnificent Six
	Big Hero 6	Additional music	Henry Jackman
	Kingsman: The Secret Service
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

Television

Year	Title	Notes
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	11 episodes, with Beau Black
2021	Monsters at Work	10 episodes
2022	Baymax![13]	6 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year	Nominee / work	Award	Result
2014	Free Birds	Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Feature Production	Nominated[14][15]
2015	Spooks: The Greater Good	World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year	Nominated[16][17]

Personal life

Lewis is married.[18]

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dominic Lewis.

• Dominic Lewis at IMDb
• Dominic Lewis on Twitter

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