Jon Wygens is an award winning composer for Film and Television. His films have won awards at major film festivals internationally and his television work includes many successful documentaries and commercials. Recent film work include the feature films Flying Blind and Miss Christina. Jon graduated in 2011 with a masters degree in 'Composing for Film and Television' from the National Film and Television School and lives and works in London.


 
 
Domnisoara Christina (Miss Christiana)
Jon has scored the Romanian feature film Miss Christina , a gothic drama based on the classic novella by Mircea Elliade. The score was recorded with the Macedonian State Radio Orchestra.
   
Flying Blind
Jon has scored the feature film Flying Blind , a passionate post 9/11 love story starring Helen McCrory (Skyfall) and Najib Oudghiri (Rendition). The film was released nationally in the UK April 2013.Click here to view the trailer
             
 
The Procession

Jon has recently scored The Procession, a comedy written and directed by Robert Festinger and starring Lily Tomlin and Lucy Punch. The film was released in cinemas the US as part of the feature presentation Stars In Shorts.

   
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The Real Social Network
Jon has recently scored a feature documentary The Real Social Network with fellow composer Alcyona Mick. The film is a timely and exciting look at the events and people behind the recent student anti cuts protests.
   
Damned wins major award
Richard Phelan's delightful and witty animation, Damned , scored by Jon, has won the award for Best Post Graduate Animation at the 2012 Royal Television Society Awards and was nominated for a MPSE Golden Reel award for it's soundtrack.
             
 
White As Snow (Kar Beyaz)
A song co-composed by Jon has appeared in the Turkish Film White As Snow (Kar Beyaz) . The song "Mircans Lullaby" was written with Mircan Kaya who was awarded best film music award at the Antalya International Film Festival 2010 for her score to the film.
   
White Elephant
Jon is scoring White Elephants (working title), a feature documentary filmed in Kinshasa, DR Congo by film maker Kristof Bilsen. The film is currently in production.
             
 
London Internatonal Film Festival
Jon has composed the music and sound design for the official trailer for the 2011 London International Animation Festival, directed by Daniela Negrin Ochoa, which you can watch here: LIAF. Two films Jon has scored also feature in the festival: Damned and El Macho, also by Daniela.
   
NTFS
Jon has just completed a two year Master’s degree at the prestigious National Film and Television School,following in the footsteps of Oscar winning composer Dario Marianelli (Atonement), Trevor Jones (The Last of the Mohicans) and Rob Lane (The Damned United).
             
 
Infidel
Winner of Best UK Short at the London Raindance Film Festival with a score recorded at Angel studios. You can now watch the film online here (16m) : Infidel