Having accumulated an extensive list of television and theatre credits since the mid-1990s, Dan has more recently emerged as one of Britain’s most admired and sought-after film composers. His score for Max, Menno Meyjes’ controversial first feature about the early years of Hitler, starring John Cusack and Noah Taylor, received the 2004 Ivor Novello Award for ‘Best Score for a Feature Film’. Other film credits include Francesca Joseph’s Four Last Songs and Tomorrow La Scala! (BBC Films), which was selected for the Un-Certain Regard slot at Cannes 2002. His most recent film credit is Tom Roberts’ In Tranzit, starring Thomas Kretschmann and John Malcovich.
Dan’s television drama credits include Dead Set, E4’s high-profile horror drama based on Big Brother; the 6-part comedy-horror BBC series Strange and Pawel Pawlikowski’s Twockers. He has worked on many distinguished documentary films, including two recent and much talked-about contributions by filmmaker Tom Roberts to WGBH Boston’s Frontline series: In the Company of Soldiers and The Insurgency. In 2002 Dan was chosen with fellow composer Ben Salisbury to write the music for Sir David Attenborough’s 10 x 1-hour BBC series The Life of Mammals - the score being recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.