Recent score releases

Free works

Album, composed, performed & produced by Herman Witkam, feat. Dutch String Collective.

Album, composed, performed & produced by Herman Witkam

Interviews

Herman was interviewed in 2021 by Alexa Rodrigues of Shortcutz Amsterdam for online film music & composer magazine Private Kitchen.

Featured projects

Full project list is available on IMDb.

Cornelia

dir. Sander Blom. Starring Ariane Schluter. Soprano vocals by Nicole Jordan.

Visible

dir. Carolina Kzan / choreography: Irene van Zeeland.

Lorelei

dir. Lars Janssen / Rêvasser Films.

Best music, Big Fridge International Film Festival 2021 (UK)

Best original score, Film in Focus 2021 (US)

Mees Kees (films & tv-drama)

dir. Barbara Bredero, Aniëlle Webster, Martijn Smits, Jorkos Damen, Diede in ‘t Veld / PV Pictures

5 features, 58 episodes, NPO/ZDF

Kerst bij Koosje

dir. Barbara Bredero / Fiction Valley. 5 ep, Videoland

Dikkertje Dap

dir. Barbara Bredero / Lemming Film. Feature. Buma Film Music Award.

Volgens Robert/Jacqueline

dir. Joram Lürsen, writer: Maria Goos / IDTV. 16 ep, NPO.

De prijs van de waarheid

dir. Danyael Sugawara. Starring Katja Herbers (Westworld, The Leftovers), tv-film, NPO.

Sammy Paramaribo

dir. Barbara Bredero / IJswater Films. 5 ep, NPO.

Hamartia: More or Less Louis van Gasteren

dir. Rudolf van den Berg / Interakt. Premiere at IDFA.

Spijt!, Pijnstillers, De Groeten van Mike

dir. Dave Schram, Tessa Schram / Shooting Star. 3 features.

App, Claustrofobia

dir. Bobby Boermans. 2 feature films.

Urfeld

dir. Maurice Trouwborst. tv-film, NPO.

My Amityville Horror

Film Regions International. On Netflix in the US.

Blijf!

dir. Lourens Blok / Shooting Star. tv-film, NPO.

Bio

Herman Witkam is a film composer, multi-instrumentalist and sound designer based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since first enrolling in the HKU University of the Arts Utrecht composition program in 2004, he has composed scores for numerous feature films, television series and documentaries, as well as for games, commercials and theater projects.

Not only does Witkam compose the music for his projects, he plays and records most of the instruments heard in his scores himself. Of the more than 100 instruments he’s mastered, the Japanese shakuhachi and Armenian duduk may be the most notable. Witkam collects instruments from all over the world and combines them with innovative composing techniques to create a unique sound for every score.