Daniel Blumberg
Daniel Blumberg is a singular voice in contemporary composition, a musician, songwriter, and multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs the lines between improvisation, minimalism, and experimental song. With a background that spans avant-garde performance, field recording and visual art practice, Blumberg has emerged as one of the most original and emotionally incisive composers working today.
In 2025, he won both the Academy Award and BAFTA for his epic score to The Brutalist (dir. Brady Corbet), cementing his reputation as a composer capable of fusing raw emotional depth with radical sonic invention. His latest work, the original songs and score for Mona Fastvold’s film The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) incorporates an otherworldly palette of voice, bell chimes and celeste to transfigure traditional Shaker spirituals into dazzling new forms; meanwhile his score for Gianfranco Rosi’s film Below The Clouds (2025) is an immersive soundscape featuring seminal saxophonists John Butcher and Seymour Wright, recorded underwater in the sea in the volcanic region of Baia, near Pompeii.
A longtime collaborator with avant-garde musicians such as Maggie Nicols, Billy Steiger, Tom Wheatley and Steven Noble, Blumberg is known for creating porous, collaborative environments where composition and improvisation collapse into one another. He has released several solo albums on Mute, performed at institutions including the ICA and Cafe OTO, and continues to work across disciplines — including drawing, where his delicate silverpoint works have been exhibited internationally.
With a practice rooted in intensity, vulnerability, and artistic autonomy, Daniel Blumberg is redefining the possibilities of the contemporary film score and the song itself.
