Composer for film, television, concert music and ballet, BAFTA Cymru Award winner Alexandra Harwood has composed the beautifully balanced evocative score for all series of the Channel 5 and PBS Masterpiece commissioned hit drama-comedy All Creatures Great and Small. Starring Samuel West, Patricia Hodge, Rachel Shenton, Anna Madeley and Nicholas Ralph, the series broadcasts and streams globally.

Film credits include Mike Newell’s feature The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, starring Lily James and Tom Courtenay; and The Escape, directed by Dominic Savage and starring Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper. Further, Disney’s feature documentary for Netflix Growing Up Wild, and an original score for Universal Picture's 1923 silent movie A Chapter In Her Life.

Documentary work include the BBC series Thatcher: A Very British Revolution and its sequel series, Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution.

Classically trained, after graduating from the Royal College of Music (Dip Mus) and The Juilliard School (Mmus), Alex was Composer in Residence for the Juilliard Drama Division, during which time she wrote music for theatre productions in the US and UK and worked with actors including Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Laura Linney, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Michael Stuhlbarg, Tim Nelson and Audra McDonald.

Alexandra has been commissioned to write numerous concert and theatre works including upcoming full length ballet scores of Alice In Wonderland for Tulsa Ballet; Carmen and Geisha, choreographed and directed by Kenneth Tindall; four pieces for iMusicanti’s St John’s Smith Square 2018 concert series; Automatic Flesh, choreographed by Miguel Altunaga, for Ballet Rambert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall; The Happy Prince with libretto by Sir Ronald Harwood based on Oscar Wilde’s tale (cantata for soloists, choir and orchestra), St John’s Smith Square, London; I Hear a Drum (voice and percussion) for Audra McDonald, Avery Fisher Hall, NY; Sonatina, The National Flute Convention chosen repertoire, 2009 and 2018, USA; Theme and Variations written for Sir Ronald Harwood’s 70th Birthday, performed in the presence of King Charles III.

Following the success in theatre and concert composition, Alex studied film composition (MA) at the National Film and Television School leading to the start of a career as an award winning composer for screen. Further awards and nominations include the Gold Panda (Winner 2023), ASCAP Music Award (2022) Royal Television Society Awards, British Animation Awards- Best Sound and Music (Winner 2018) , BIFA (2013), Anima Mundi, Edinburgh Film Festival, IDFA and Locarno.