Madison Willing

Madison works primarily at the intersection of contemporary classical and electronica, driven by her training as a classical pianist and production of ambient, dance music and avant-garde genres.

She was selected by BAFTA for the new Connect membership scheme after scoring the feature documentaries Paula Rego: Secrets and Stories which won both a Grierson and Royal Television Society Award, and Unstoppable: Sean Scully and the Art of Everything featured on Arena, the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand.

Madison’s collaboration with the music producer dBridge in their record “Made In Silence” [Exit Records] has been acclaimed as ‘a masterclass in cinematic and emotional electronic music’ [DJ Mag] and paralleled ‘to the ineffable but ocean-deep feelings the late Johann Johannsson’s work, which is quite some achievement.’ [The Wire]

Most notably, composer Martin Phipps hired Madison to work throughout all ten episodes of The Crown Season 5 as an additional music composer, assistant composer and music editor.

In 2023, Madison began scoring Signora Volpe Season 2 (Emilia Fox) for Route 24 and Acorn TV, following Academy Award Winning Composer Anne Dudley’s score for Season 1.

A National Film & Television School graduate in MA Composing, Madison was classically trained in flute and piano at Junior Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Junior Royal Academy of Music. During her time at the NFTS, Madison scored several short films including BAFTA-nominated The Flying Gold of Arabuko, BAFTA shortlisted  A Film About A Pudding, Grierson Award nominated Alt Er Nu, and Royal Television Society award-winning Requiem starring Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones, The Last of Us). 

Madison is a prominent DJ and regularly releases mixes that explore the boundaries between modern classical, minimal techno and dance music. Her track ‘Youth’ is featured in the compilation album 100.2 celebrating twenty years of Exit Records, and her debut solo album ‘Birth LP’ will be released on Exit in May 2024.

In 2023 Madison was selected by the Benjamin Britten Foundation to participate in their prestigious residency programme in Aldeburgh, Suffolk where she created and performed new music at Snape Maltings: a unique 33-minute piece written for flute, voice, piano and synthesiser which she will be touring live throughout 2024.  

In 2024 Madison will also compose the music for a major theatre production of Ingmar Bergman’s adaption of A Doll’s House to be premiered in Istanbul, Turkey.