Walter Mair is an Award-winning composer known for his captivating scores ranging from epic orchestrations recorded with 80-piece choirs to intimate, small ensemble and hybrid electronic pieces that have graced a diverse mix of feature films, documentaries, television dramas, narrative-driven interactive entertainment and video games.
In 2023 Walter scored the Apple+ series Liaison, starring Ewa Green and Vincent Cassel, and directed by Stephen Hopkins, as well as the action thriller The Bricklayer, directed by Renny Harlin and starring Aaron Eckhard and Nina Dobrev. That same year, the thriller Infinite, starring Asa Butterfield, Tanya Reynolds and Robert Sheehan, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Walter scored the 2021 survival thriller Till Death, directed by S.K. Dale and starring Megan Fox, as well as the psychological horror film The Unfamiliar, which won the 2021 Telly Award for Best Original Music and an Award for Best Music Score at the 2020 NOLAHFF. Other projects include the coming-of-age drama Iceland is Best and the action-thriller Knuckledust, directed by James Kermack and starring Moe Dunford (Vikings), which won the 2021 Telly Award for Best Original Music. Walter also wrote additional music for the Netflix hit series and global phenomenon Squid Game.
In 2020, he received two Telly awards for “Best Original Music” for his scores to the BAFTA “Game of the Year” Call of Duty as well as for his score to the Netflix docu-series Formula 1: Drive to Survive. The projects won a BAFTA Award for Best Sound, and topped the Netflix charts globally. Other credits include Academy Award nominee Oliver Hirschbiegel’s International cold war series for Netflix, The Same Sky, which premiered at Berlin Film Festival, and Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut Lost River, starring Saoirse Ronan, Matt Smith, Christina Hendricks, and Eva Mendes.
Walter believes that the main principle of creativity is to come up with genuine sounds, and he enjoys experimenting and creating unique sonic worlds for each of his projects, using his extensive collection of analog digital synths and blending live orchestral arrangements with experimental post-recording techniques.
In 2006 Walter opened his own state-of-the-art recording studio in Soho; he is a member of both BAFTA and The Ivor’s Academy.