Orchestrator – Keld Haaning Ibsen

DNA (DK)

KH Ibsen — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:36:21 +0000

I did score arrangements and music editing for composer Halfdan E on the second season of DNA – a crime drama with a story centered around human trafficking.

Directed by Fabian Wullenweber and produced by Nordisk Film for danish TV2.

Official season 2 trailer

Corner Office (US)

KH Ibsen — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:55:00 +0000

A dark comedy feature film starring Jon Hamm and directed by Joachim Back for Tilt 9 Entertainment. Based on “The room” – a book by Jonas Karlsson.

I wrote the score together with Frans Bak and did the orchestration and music editing.

The film premiered on the 9th of June 2022 at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. A soundtrack album is planed but not yet released.

Nordic Noir (UK)

KH Ibsen — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:15:37 +0000

I wrote and orchestrated 3 tracks for this compilation album from music publisher West One Music Group that was released in September 2021. My tracks are:

2. Unhinged

9. Open

11. Lullaby

You can listen to the album here.

Moments in time

KH Ibsen — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:06:00 +0000

I composed and produced this album together with Frans Bak for the new label A NEW STORY from Danish publisher Upright Music. It was released on the 19th of June 2020.

The album was heavily featured on the live celebration of the 75th anniversary of the end og World War II on Danish TV.

Available on all services

PIANO by Frans Bak

KH Ibsen — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 22:28:14 +0000

I had the pleasure of mixing and producing this wonderful album with music by Frans Bak. The album release is 29th of May 2020 on Dharma records.

Available on all services.

First single is Danish Brook – released 30th of January 2020. I also produced the video:

2nd single is Parting – release on 13th of March 2020 featuring amazing solo cello by Live Johansson – and I made the video:

Valhalla (DK)

KH Ibsen — Sat, 17 Aug 2019 08:24:26 +0000

Feature film based on the nordic mythology tales of Thor and Loke with a modern and edgy score by Jens Ole Wowk McCoy and directed by Fenar Ahmad. I did all of the orchestration and we recorded the music with The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.

I also mixed the soundtrack album that is released on Universal Music and available on all streaming services.

Oister (DK)

KH Ibsen — Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:27:50 +0000

I have produced and recorded a number of tracks for Oister campaigns by CO Plus.

“Oister for alle” – Summer dance hall

I wrote and recorded this song for a summer campaign:

“Fødselsdag” – 80’ies style.

Another song by Frans Bak where I did the arrangement, recording and production:

“Vild med Macarena” – Popsong

For this one I did the programming and re-recording of all the instrumental parts from the 1993 hit song Macarena by Los Del Rio – and I got to sing the weird opening vocal

L’art du crime (FR)

KH Ibsen — Fri, 17 Nov 2017 13:20:20 +0000

Tv-crime drama series directed by Charlotte Brändström for Gaumont Television. Frans Bak wrote the score and I was music editor and arranger for season 1.

Main title:

Ingen panik (DK)

KH Ibsen — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 10:50:36 +0000

Comedy show featuring Anders W Berthelsen, Troels Lyby & Nicolaj Kopernikus. Frans Bak wrote the song “Nicos nosser” and I did the orchestration and recording.

Promo video (at 0:14 you hear a small snippet of our song):

Sound of north (DK)

KH Ibsen — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 20:03:55 +0000

Frans Bak made this album to sum up his work in Nordic Noir and it was released on Mercury Classics. I did arrangements for the string quartet Live Strings who played on the album and I also got to do a lot of sound design and play synths.

Music video for the track Giant Leap:

Available for download and streaming on all services.