Sascha Blank is a film composer and multi-instrumentalist. His compositions range from classical music with organic synthesizers and pop/world influences to neoclassical writing.
Based in Berlin, he works across internationally recognized documentaries, feature films, TV series, and commercials. His most recent project, Wings of Dust, directed by Giorgio Ghiotto, has been shortlisted for the Oscars 2024, Emmy-nominated and previously awarded a Student Academy Award Gold.
Furthermore, Sascha received a nomination for Best Score (Doc Shorts) at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for his music in The Shark with a Thousand Names, directed by The Jetlagged. The film premiered at the Ocean Film Festival San Francisco in April 2023.
Composer for Oscar
shortlisted and Emmy
nominated Films.
His compositions are regularly featured on television shows on NBC, ITV, BBC, NatGeo, ARD, and ARTE and can also be heard on TV and online commercials for clients such as Mercedes Benz, eBay, Mister Spex, and Asam Beauty.
Recent projects include Croatia’s Coast for ORF/NatGeo, the Amazon Originals Documentary Series Uncensored – Bushido’s Truth, Antarctic Adventure: Is the Eternal Ice Melting, Terra X – The Metal Planet and a FollowFood commercial spot.
In 2019, Sascha composed the music for the romantic comedy Tell Me I Love You, directed by Fiona Mackenzie and starring Kaniehtiio Horn (Alice, Darling), Krik Bovill (Vice), and Al Sapienza (The Sopranos). Additional projects include They’re Outside, directed by Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly and starring Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser), Tom Wheatley (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), and Emma Burdon-Sutton (American Monster), which premiered at the 2020 Fright Fest, London, and Mentally Apart, a thrilling drama by Joe Pomarico. Sascha’s original musical score won prizes in several competitions, including the Los Angeles Motion Picture Awards (Best Score), Los Angeles Film Awards (Honorable Mention: Score) and New York Film Awards (Best Score).
Building a unique
Bespoke Sonic World
for each project.
Known for his narrative sensitivity and emotionally precise scoring, he collaborates closely with filmmakers to develop a musical language rooted in character, pacing and thematic clarity. His scores range from intimate ensemble writing to large-scale orchestral recordings and hybrid electronic textures, always shaped by the specific dramaturgy of the film.
Sascha’s approach to scoring begins with understanding why a scene exists, including its internal rhythm, its subtext, its emotional architecture. Through close dialogue and attentive listening, he translates words, images and instinct into music that serves the film’s narrative rather than competing with it.
Working from his state-of-the-art recording studio, he develops themes and textures that can evolve from piano sketches to orchestral recordings in Prague, Budapest, or London. Depending on the needs of the project, he collaborates with soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, enriching his musical landscape. His practice blends composition, improvisation, and sound research. As a collector of traditional and world music instruments, Sascha weaves them into his scores in unexpected ways, blurring the boundaries between traditional playing and modern experimental approaches.
The principle of creativity, for Sascha, is to discover authentic sounds. Each score is its own sonic world, shaped with live orchestral recordings, analog and digital synths, and experimental audio processing.
Supporting the
Emotional Narrative.
Raised in a family of musicians, Sascha began studying piano at an early age. After formal training in classical music as well as pop and world music in Rostock, he completed a Master degree in Composition for Film and Television at the London College of Music, graduating with distinction. He further refined his craft through masterclasses with internationally acclaimed artists such as Danny Elfman, Conrad Pope, Nan Schwartz, TJ Lindgren, and William Ross. The combination of discipline and curiosity continues to shape his approach today.
At the center of his practice is a lasting fascination with how music and moving image transform one another and how a subtle shift in harmony can alter perception, how rhythm can reshape time, how sound can reveal what remains unspoken.
Sascha Blank is a film composer and multi-instrumentalist. His compositions range from classical music with organic synthesizers and pop/world influences to neoclassical writing.
Based in Berlin, he works across internationally recognized documentaries, feature films, TV series, and commercials. His most recent project, Wings of Dust, directed by Giorgio Ghiotto, has been shortlisted for the Oscars 2024, Emmy-nominated and previously awarded a Student Academy Award Gold.
Furthermore, Sascha received a nomination for Best Score (Doc Shorts) at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for his music in The Shark with a Thousand Names, directed by The Jetlagged. The film premiered at the Ocean Film Festival San Francisco in April 2023.
Composer for Oscar shortlisted
and Emmy nominated Films.
His compositions are regularly featured on television shows on NBC, ITV, BBC, NatGeo, ARD, and ARTE and can also be heard on TV and online commercials for clients such as Mercedes Benz, eBay, Mister Spex, and Asam Beauty.
Recent projects include Croatia’s Coast for ORF/NatGeo, the Amazon Originals Documentary Series Uncensored – Bushido’s Truth, Antarctic Adventure: Is the Eternal Ice Melting, Terra X – The Metal Planet and a FollowFood commercial spot.
In 2019, Sascha composed the music for the romantic comedy Tell Me I Love You, directed by Fiona Mackenzie and starring Kaniehtiio Horn (Alice, Darling), Krik Bovill (Vice), and Al Sapienza (The Sopranos). Additional projects include They’re Outside, directed by Anthony Hayles and Sam Casserly and starring Nicholas Vince (Hellraiser), Tom Wheatley (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix), and Emma Burdon-Sutton (American Monster), which premiered at the 2020 Fright Fest, London, and Mentally Apart, a thrilling drama by Joe Pomarico. Sascha’s original musical score won prizes in several competitions, including the Los Angeles Motion Picture Awards (Best Score), Los Angeles Film Awards (Honorable Mention: Score) and New York Film Awards (Best Score).
Building a unique
Bespoke Sonic World
for each project.
Known for his narrative sensitivity and emotionally precise scoring, he collaborates closely with filmmakers to develop a musical language rooted in character, pacing and thematic clarity. His scores range from intimate ensemble writing to large-scale orchestral recordings and hybrid electronic textures — always shaped by the specific dramaturgy of the film.
Sascha’s approach to scoring begins with understanding why a scene exists, including its internal rhythm, its subtext, its emotional architecture. Through close dialogue and attentive listening, he translates words, images and instinct into music that serves the film’s narrative rather than competing with it.
Working from his state-of-the-art recording studio, he develops themes and textures that can evolve from piano sketches to orchestral recordings in Prague, Budapest, or London. Depending on the needs of the project, he collaborates with soloists, ensembles, and orchestras, enriching his musical landscape. His practice blends composition, improvisation, and sound research. As a collector of traditional and world music instruments, Sascha weaves them into his scores in unexpected ways, blurring the boundaries between traditional playing and modern experimental approaches.
The principle of creativity, for Sascha, is to discover authentic sounds. Each score is its own sonic world, shaped with live orchestral recordings, analog and digital synths, and experimental audio processing.
Supporting the
Emotional
Narrative.
Raised in a family of musicians, Sascha began studying piano at an early age. After formal training in classical music as well as pop and world music in Rostock, he completed a Master degree in Composition for Film and Television at the London College of Music, graduating with distinction. He further refined his craft through masterclasses with internationally acclaimed artists such as Danny Elfman, Conrad Pope, Nan Schwartz, TJ Lindgren, and William Ross. The combination of discipline and curiosity continues to shape his approach today.
At the center of his practice is a lasting fascination with how music and moving image transform one another and how a subtle shift in harmony can alter perception, how rhythm can reshape time, how sound can reveal what remains unspoken.