DJ Walde
Composer and Music Director
Danilo J. Walde is a Filipino composer, musician, consultant, and performer. He works extensively for theatre and dance, and is a Music (BA) graduate of Brunel University.
Theatre includes: Composition, arrangements, orchestration and music supervision for Stranger Things: The
First Shadow (Netflix/Sonia Friedman Productions); production music for Till The Stars Come Down; Musical Director, Composer and music production for Our Generation; Composer, Arranger and music production for Dick Whittington; Composer and music production for The Suicide (National Theatre); Co-Composer, music production and arrangements for SYLVIA (Old Vic); Composer and arrangements for Good Person Of Szechwan (Sheffield Theatres/Lyric Hammersmith); Composer for School For Scandal; composer for All’s Well That Ends Well; Composer for Pericles (RSC); Musical Director for HYMN (Almeida); Composer, Musical Director and performer for The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party; Composer, Musical director and performer for Some Like It Hip Hop and Arranger and Remixer for Into the Hoods (ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company).
Other work includes: Music Associate and additional arrangements for Message in a Bottle (Sadler’s Wells/
Universal Music UK); Music Consultant for Peaky Blinders – The Redemption Of Thomas Shelby (Rambert); Composer for Nora – She Persisted (English National Ballet); Composer for Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant 2022 (PJP) and Stadium DJ for Paralympic Opening Ceremony London 2012 Olympics.
Also as performer: Vocal orchestra for Just for Laughs Festival and vocal orchestra for Reading, Leeds and Wilderness Festivals. Film and television includes: Cocomposer on The Holloway Laundrette: Fall into You and Random Acts.
Radio includes: Royal Treatment Plant.
Albums include: Hope Is Not Enough and Halfway To The Sun.
Awards include: SYLVIA – Olivier Award nomination for Best New Musical 2023 and winner for Best Musical for Black British Theatre Awards 2023; HYMN – Broadway World nomination for Best Musical Direction in a Play or Musical 2021; Some Like It Hip Hop – Olivier nomination for Best New Dance Production 2012 and nominated for Best Dance Production at the Black British Theatre Awards 2020 and Royal Treatment Plant (RTP) – nomination for Debut Album of the Year 2008 on XFM.