Henrik Skram, one of Scandinavia’s most sought-after film composers, studied classical composition at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.

In 2011, he scored the feature film 90 Minutes which received international acclaim. Henrik Skram’s score was nominated for both an Amanda Award and shortlisted for the World Soundtrack Awards (Public Choice Award) and Scoremagazine wrote: “if you want my advice, do not pass on this one. It's beautiful. Up there with Zbigniew Preisner's mesmerizing waltzes and musical fields, or the beautiful themes of Jan A.P.Kaczmarek. Chamber-musical and melancholic, it's a must-listen for this year.”

In 2015, he was awarded the Golden Screen Award for Best Original Music for the documentary Ballet Boys and received a nomination for the International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA) for the same film. 2016 saw the premiere of two feature films with a film score by Henrik Skram: Tordenskjold & Kold (dir. Henrik Ruben Genz) and All The Beauty (dir. Aasne Vaa Greibrokk), followed by his extensive work on the score for the immensely successful 24-episode TV series Snøfall, produced by NRK (Norwegian National Broadcasting). A massive undertaking with over 5 hours of recorded orchestral music, which earned the composer his second Golden Screen Award for Best Original Score as well as a nomination as the Norwegian candidate for the 2018 Harpa Nordic Film Composer Award.

In 2018, the commissioned work Emerge for cello and orchestra was premiered with cellist Audun Sandvik and the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. The piece explores tonality as an emergent quality of the musical material and is an extension of Henrik Skram’s musical language found in his works for film. It will be released on the album Traces of Lament on the label LAWO in 2022.

Also in 2018, Skram debuted as composer for ballet with The Hamlet Complex at the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet in Oslo, with acclaimed choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen in collaboration with Winter Guests, reimaged due to its great success in 2020 as The Hamlet Complex Redux.

Henrik Skram’s work for stage also encompasses the musical drama for children Mia & the Troll Factory (Mia & Trollfabrikken) with a script by Gudrun Skretting and a premiere by The Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019 and the theatrical version of Maja Lunde´s The Snowsister (Snøsøstera) at Det Norske Teatret (2021).

His most recent film scores include the music for the feature films Rose (dir. Niels Arden Oplev) and The Kiss (Kysset), directed by Bille August.