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Dustin O'Halloran
Dustin O'Halloran
Background information
Born	September 8, 1971 (age 53); Phoenix, Arizona
Origin	Los Angeles, California
Occupation(s)	Pianist, composer
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Deutsche Grammophon
Website	dustinohalloran.com

Dustin O'Halloran (born September 8, 1971)^[2] is an American composer and pianist. Aside from releasing music as a recording artist, O'Halloran is a film and TV composer, as well as one half of ambient act A Winged Victory for the Sullen.

Early life

O'Halloran was born in Phoenix, Arizona, and spent most of his childhood in Hawaii and Los Angeles. While studying art at Santa Monica College, he met singer Sara Lov, with whom he founded indie rock band Dévics in 1998. When the group signed with Bella Union in 2001, they relocated to Romagna, Italy, where O'Halloran lived for seven years.

Career

Solo work

In 2004, O'Halloran released his first record as a solo artist, Piano Solos. He has since released three more solo records, the latest of which is Lumiere (2011), which featured contributions by Peter Broderick and Adam Wiltzie (Stars of the Lid), and was mixed by Jóhann Jóhannsson.^[3]

In 2019, O'Halloran signed with Deutsche Grammophon and released his first EP on the label, entitled Sundoor.^[4]

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

With A Winged Victory for the Sullen, his collaboration with Adam Wiltzie, O'Halloran has released four studio albums: A Winged Victory for the Sullen (2011), Atomos (2014), The Undivided Five (2019), and Invisible Cities (2021). The second was also the original score for the identically titled dance piece by choreographer Wayne McGregor and his company Wayne McGregor Random Dance.^[5]^[6]

In 2015, AWVFTS were invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in London as part of the BBC Proms.^[7] The duo scored their first film together in 2016, entitled In the Shadow of Iris by French director Jalil Lespert.

In addition to their studio outputs, they wrote the soundtrack for the 2016 film Iris.

In 2019, A Winged Victory for the Sullen signed with UK-based indie label Ninja Tune.

Film score works

Since the release of Piano Solos Volumes 1 and 2 in 2004 and 2006, O'Halloran has gone on to score a number of films and TV shows. These include Sofia Coppola's 2006 film Marie Antoinette, and Drake Doremus’ Like Crazy (2011), which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. In 2014, O’Halloran worked on Indian drama Umrika, which won the Audience Award at Sundance, and gave him his first opportunity to compose for a full string orchestra.^{[citation needed]}

In the same year he was also asked to provide the music for Transparent, the acclaimed TV series created by Jill Soloway for Amazon Studios.^[8]

O'Halloran was awarded the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for his original theme for Transparent in 2015.^[9]

In 2016, he collaborated with Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) on the score for the Oscar-nominated film Lion.^[10] The score of the film was nominated for many major awards including the Academy Awards, Golden Globes, BAFTAs and Critics’ Choice Awards. He has since collaborated with Bertelmann on a number of other scores, including Ammonite (2020).^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Solo albums

Year	Album	Label
2004	Piano Solos	Splinter
2006	Piano Solos Vol. 2	Filter/Splinter
2010	Vorleben	Sonic Pieces
2011	Lumiere	Fat Cat
2017	3 Movements (EP)	1631 Recordings
2019	Sundoor (EP)	Deutsche Grammophon
2021	Silfur	Deutsche Grammophon
2024	1 0 0 1	Deutsche Grammophon

Soundtrack albums

Marie Antoinette (Verve Forecast/Polydor, 2006)
An American Affair (Splinter, 2009)
Now Is Good (Polydor, 2012)
Like Crazy (Relativity Music, 2012)
The Beauty Inside (Splinter, 2013)
Breathe In (Milan Records, 2013)
Umrika (Splinter, 2015)
Iris (Erased Tapes, 2016) (as A Winged Victory For The Sullen)
Lion (Sony Music, 2016) (with Hauschka)^[11]^[12]
Save Me (Sky, 2018)
Puzzle (Sony Music, 2018)
The Hate U Give (Milan Records, 2018) (with Volker Bertelmann)
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hollywood Records, 2019) (with Volker Bertelmann)
Save Me Too (SATV/Save Me Too, 2020)
A Christmas Carol (Hollywood Records, 2020) (with Volker Bertelmann)
The Old Guard (Lakeshore Music, 2020) (with Volker Bertelmann)

With Devics

If You Forget Me (Bella Union, 1998 — writer, co-producer)
My Beautiful Sinking Ship (Bella Union, 2001 — writer, co-producer)
The Stars at St. Andrea (Bella Union, 2003 — writer, producer)
Push the Heart (Filter, 2006 — writer, producer)

With A Winged Victory for the Sullen

A Winged Victory for the Sullen (Kranky, 2011 — Arranger, Composer, Engineer, Main Personnel, Score)
Atomos (Kranky, 2014 — Arranger, Composer, Engineer, Primary Artist, Score)
Iris (Erased Tapes, 2016)
God's Own Country (2017)
The Undivided Five (Ninja Tune, 2019)
Invisible Cities (2021)

Other collaborations

With Katy Perry: 'Into Me You See' from Witness.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Credits	Notes
2006	Marie Antoinette	Sofia Coppola	Composer
2007	Remember the Daze	Jess Manafort
2008	An American Affair	William Olsson
2010	Want to See Something?	Tomas Jonsgården		Short
2011	Like Crazy	Drake Doremus
2012	The Other Dream Team	Marius A. Markevicius		Documentary
2012	The Beauty Inside	Drake Doremus		TV Mini-Series
2012	Now Is Good	Ol Parker
2013	Breathe In	Drake Doremus
2013	Eclipse	Linda Arkelian, David Cooper		Short
2014	Posthumous	Lulu Wang
2014–2017	Transparent	Jill Soloway (creator)		TV series
2015	Deliá	Thomas Scott Stanton		Short
2015	Umrika	Prashant Nair
2015	American Masters	Susan Lacy		TV series documentary
2015	This Is Me	Rhys Ernst		TV mini-series documentary
2015	Equals	Drake Doremus
2016	I Love Dick	Sarah Gubbins, Jill Soloway (creators)		TV series
2016	Lion	Garth Davis		with Volker Bertelmann^[13]
2016	Queimafobia	Daniel Sánchez Arévalo		Short
2016	In the Shadow of Iris	Jalil Lespert
2017	God's Own Country	Francis Lee
2018	The Current War	Alfonso Gomez-Rejon		With Hauschka
2018	Save Me	Nick Murphy		with Bryan Senti
2018	Puzzle	Marc Turtletaub
2018	The Hate U Give	George Tillman Jr.
2019	The Art of Racing in the Rain	Simon Curtis		with Volker Bertelmann
2019	A Christmas Carol	Nick Murphy		with Volker Bertelmann
2020	For Life	Hank Steinberg		TV series
2020	Save Me Too	Nick Murphy		with Bryan Senti
2020	The Old Guard	Gina Prince-Bythewood		with Volker Bertelmann
2020	Ammonite	Francis Lee		with Volker Bertelmann
2022	The Essex Serpent	Clio Barnard		with Herdís Stefánsdóttir

Awards

Year	Award	Nomination	Title	Result	Notes
2014	HMMA Award	Main Title - TV Show / Digital Series	Transparent	Nominated
2015	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Main Title Theme Music	Transparent	Won^[14]
2016	Critics’ Choice Awards	Best Score	Lion (2016)	Nominated	Shared with: Volker Bertelmann
	PFCS Award	Best Original Score
	HMMA Award	Best Original Score - Feature Film
2017	GFCA Award	Best Original Score
	BAFTA Film Award	Original Music
	Academy Award	Best Original Score			Shared with: Volker Bertelmann^[15]^[16]
	Golden Globe	Best Original Score			Shared with: Volker Bertelmann