Sally Herbert
Composer / Writer / Producer / Arranger
Sally is a versatile composer, arranger, writer and producer. Her original work has been used in film, tv and on trailers. Including Star Wars Rogue One, The Martian, Disney’s Beauty & The Beast and John Wick 2.
She has written bespoke compositions for adverts for brands including Pepsi, Visa, Adidas and Time Out.
Sally worked with Florence & The Machine on her tracks for Final Fantasy XV, and has created orchestral arrangements for Florence’s Off Broadway musical Gatsby.
Her work in orchestration and arrangement has featured on albums for artists including Florence & The Machine, London Grammar, Radiohead, Robbie Williams, Usher, Ed Sheeran and more
She is part of a composition duo called Swann with Richard Northern.
Manager: Fergus Cooper, Alexa Coyle
film and tv composition
ESPN / Netflix - The Last Dance
‘The Sound Of Silence’ Instrumental / The Last Dance Remix used for Episode 7 finale
John Wick 2
‘Battle Royale’ by Apashe ft. Panther vs. The Who (SWANN - Classical Re-record / Additional Production) used for Super Bowl TV Spot
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
'Paradise' by Swann used for TV spot
Kingsman 2: The Golden Circle
‘Battle Royale’ by Apashe ft. Panther vs. The Who (SWANN - Classical Re-record / Additional Production) used for Official International Trailer #2
The Snowman
‘Chaos On The Hills’ by Swann used for the International Trailer
The Siege Of Jadotville
‘Deify’ by Swann used for Official International Trailer
The Martian
‘Black Light Falls’ by Swann used for Official Trailer
The Dark Tower
'Chaos On The Hills' by Swann used for worldwide trailer
Beauty and The Beast
'Moth To Flame' by Swann used for the TV Spot
A Cure For Wellness
‘Chaos On The Hills’ by Swann used for the TV spot
True Detective
‘Chaos’ by Swann used for Season 2 of TV series directed by Nic Pizzolatto
The Leftovers
Soundtrack by Swann for TV Series by Tom Perrotta and Damon Lindelof. Including ‘The Sound of Silence’ featuring Nouela
A Walk Among The Tombstones
Swann ‘Blackhole Sun’ featuring Nouela used for soundtrack in film directed by Scott Frank
The Imitation Game
Swann ‘Loveless’ used for NBC Universal TV Trailer
Sus
Soundtrack for film directed by Robert Heath
Visa
Bruce Willis TV advert
Pepsi
‘Kung Fu’ TV advert
Time Out
‘You vs You’ TV advert
Adidas
‘There Will Be Haters’ Leo Messi TV advert
Adidas
‘There Will Be Haters’ f50 adizero football boot TV advert
Gatsby
Orchestral arrangements for Florence Welch’s Off Broadway musical
discography
Orchestral, Vocal and string arrangements
YUNGBLUD & Aerosmith
String arrangements for tracks on ‘One More Time’ EP
YUNGBLUD
String orchestration on ‘IDOLS’ album
(Capitol Records)
2025
Woodkid
String orchestration and conducting on single 'To the Wilder'
(Milan Records)
2025
London Grammar
String arrangements on album ‘The Greatest Love’
(Ministry of Sound Recordings)
2024
Rex Orange County
Additional string arrangements on 'The Alexander Technique' album
(Sony Music)
2024
Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Damon Albarn
Orchestral arrangements on single ‘Heaven’
2023
Elmiene
String arrangements and conducting on single ‘Marking My Time’
2023
Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler
String arrangements on ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’
2022
Lil Silva
String arrangements and conducted on album ‘Yesterday is Heavy’
2022
CHINCHILLA
String arrangements on single ‘1:5’
(Republic Records / UMG)
2024
Aiden Somova
Co-production on 'Close My Eyes' EP
2025
Florence + the Machine
Single ‘My Love’ (Brass & String Arrangements)
2022
(Polydor)
Rudimental
Single ‘Remember Their Names’ (String Arrangements)
2021
(Atlantic)
Delta Goodrem
Album ‘Bridge Over Troubled Dreams’ (String Arrangements)
2021
(Sony)
London Grammar
‘Californian Soil’ (String Arrangements)
2021
(Ministry of Sound)
Tom Grennan
Album ‘Evering Road’ (String & Brass Arrangements)
2021
(Insanity / Sony)
Woodkid
Album ‘S16’ (Orchestral Arrangements)
2020
(Island)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Album ‘Disney Goes Classical’ (Orchestral Arrangements)
2020
(Decca)
Woodkid
Single ‘Goliath’ (Orchestral Arrangements)
2020
(Island)
The Last Dance (Netflix)
Single ‘The Sound of Silence’ (Instrumental Remix)
2020
(SWANN / Pusher Digitalis)
Black Honey
Single ‘I Don’t Ever Wanna Love’ (String Arrangements)
2019
(Foxfive)
Rex Orange County
Album ‘Pony’ (String Arrangements)
2019
(Rex Orange County)
Camila Cabello
Single ‘Consequences (Orchestra)’
(Orchestral Arrangements)
2018
(Epic)
Florence & The Machine
Album ‘High As Hope’ (Orchestral Arrangements)
2018
(Island)
Louis Tomlinson
Single ‘Two of Us’ (String Arrangements)
2018
(Sony)
The Beach Boys
Album ‘The Beach Boys with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’ (Orchestral Arrangements)
2018
(Capitol)
Benjamin Clementine
Single ‘Eternity’ (String Arrangements)
2018
(Universal)
Mumford & Sons
Single ‘Delta’ (Orchestral Arrangements)
2018
(Universal / Island)
Elvis Presley
Album 'Christmas with Elvis and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’ (Orchestral Arrangements)
2017
(RCA / Legacy)
Roy Orbison
Album ‘A Love So Beautiful with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra' (Orchestral Arrangements)
2017
(Sony / Legacy)
Liam Gallagher
Album 'As You Were' (String & Brass Arrangements)
2017
(Warner Bros.)
Calum Scott
Album ‘Rhythm Inside’ (String Arrangements & Conducting)
2017
(Capitol)
Florence & The Machine
Album ‘How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful’ (String, Brass, & Woodwind Arrangements, Orchestrating & Conducting)
2015
(Island)
Florence & The Machine
Album 'Lungs' (String Arrangements)
2009
(Island)
Florence & The Machine
Album 'Ceremonials'
2011
(Island)
Lianne La Havas
Single ‘Unstoppable’ (String & Brass Arrangements)
2015
(Warner)
Jess Glynne
Album ‘I Cry When I Laugh’ (String Arrangements)
2015
(Atlantic)
Will Young
Album ‘85% Proof’ (String Arrangements & Conducting)
2015
(Island)
Rudimental
Albums ‘We the Generation’ & ‘Home’ (String Arrangements & Conducting)
2015, 2013
(Asylum)
Max Jury
Single ‘Great American Novel’ (String Arrangements)
2015
(Marathon)
Nerina Pallot
Album ‘The Sound and the Fury’ (String Arrangements)
2015
(Polydor)
Foxes
Album ‘All I Need’ (Arrangements)
2016
(Sign Of The Times Records)
James Morrison
Album ‘Higher Than Here’ (Arrangements)
2015
(Island)
Usher
Single ‘Chains’ (Arrangements)
2015
(RCA / Sony)
Rosie Lowe
Single ‘Woman’ (Arrangements)
2016
(Polydor)
Plan B
Single ‘She Said’ from No. 1 Album ‘The Defamation Of Strickland Banks’ (Arrangements)
2010
(Island)
Olly Murs
Single ‘Dear Darlin’ (Arrangements)
2012
(Epic)
Jimmy Somerville
Album ‘Homage’ (String Arrangements & Musical Director for Strings)
2015
(Cherry Red / Membran)
Florence & The Machine
Live Performance ‘Live at The Royal Albert Hall’ (Arrangements)
2012
(Island)
Leon Else
Forthcoming Album
(Skitzophonic)
Sarah Brightman
Album ‘Dreamchaser’ (Co-Production & Arrangements)
2013
(Island)
Russell Watson
Album ‘La Voce’ (Arrangements)
2010
(Epic)
Alfie Boe
Album ‘Storyteller’ (Arrangements)
2012
(Decca)
The Vamps
Album ‘Meet The Vamps’ (Arrangements)
2014
(Mercury)
Jackie Evancho
Album ‘Awakening’ (Arrangements & Programming)
2014
(Portrait)
Kodaline
Album ‘Coming Up For Air’ (Arrangements)
2015
(B-Unique)
Friar Alessandro
Album ‘Voice from Assise’ (Arrangements)
2012
(Universal)
Girls Aloud
Single ‘Beautiful’ Cause You Love Me’ (String Arrangement)
2012
(Polydor)
Etienne Daho
Album ‘Les Chansons de L’innocence’ (Conducting)
2013
(Polydor)
Big Pink
Album ‘Future This’ (String Arrangement)
2012
(4AD)
Ellie Goulding
Album ‘Halcyon Days’ (Arrangements & Conducting)
2013
(EMI)
Bat For Lashes
Album ‘The Haunted Man’ (Arrangements & Conducting)
2012
(Polydor)
Nerina Pallot
Album ‘Year Of The Wolf’ (String Arrangement)
2011
(Island)
James Morrison
Album 'The Awakening' (String Arrangements)
2011
(Island)
Katherine Jenkins
Album 'This Is Christmas' (Arrangements)
2012
(Atlantic)
CeeLo Green
Track ‘No-one’s Gonna Love You’ (String Arrangements)
2010
(679 / Atlantic)
Sarah Brightman
Tracks ‘Angel’ & ‘Ave Maria’ (Arrangements)
2013
(Simha LLC)
Pixie Loft
Album ‘Turn It Up’ including single ‘Cry Me Out’ (Arrangements)
2009
(Mercury)
Kate Nash
Album 'My Best Friend Is You' (String Arrangements)
2010
(Future)
Camilla Kerslake
Album ‘Camilla Kerslake’ (Co-Production, String & Vocal Arrangements)
2009
(Epic)
The Priests
Album 'The Priests' (Arrangements)
2008
(XL Recordings)
The Priests
Album 'Harmony' (Arrangements & Production)
2009
(XL Recordings)
The Priests
Album 'Noel' (Arrangement)
2010
(XL Recordings)
Radiohead
Album 'In Rainbows' (Conducting)
2007
(Polydor)
Duffy
Album 'Rockferry' (String Arrangements)
2008
(Independiente)
Howling Bells
Album 'Radio Wars' (String Arrangements)
2009
(Columbia)
Glasvegas
Album 'Cruel Moon' (Arrangements)
2009
(Fiction)
White Lies
Album 'To Lose My Life...' (String Arrangement)
2009
(Domino)
The Count & Sinden
Album 'Mega Mega Mega' (Arrangements)
2010
(Mercury)
Sharleen Spiteri
Album 'Melody' (String Arrangements)
2008
(EMI)
Robbie Williams
Album ‘Escapology’ including singles ‘Feel’, ‘Come Undone’ & ‘Sexed Up’ (Arrangements)
2002
(Columbia)
Zero 7
Album ‘Simple Things’ (String Arrangements)
2001
(Columbia)
Zero 7
Album ‘When It Falls’ including singles ‘I Have Seen’ & ‘Summersault’ (String Arrangements & Conducting)
2004
(Columbia)
Travis
Album 'Ode To J Smith' (String Arranegements)
2008
(Independiente)
Travis
Album ‘The Boy With No Name’ including the single ‘Closer’ (String Arrangements)
2007
(Independiente)
Travis
Album 'The Man Who' (String Arrangements)
1999
(Sony / Epic)
Manic Street Preachers
Album ‘Send Away The Tigers’ including the singles ‘Your Love Alone Is Not Enough’, ‘Autumn Song’ & ‘Indian Summer’ (String Arrangements)
2007
(Epic)
Manic Street Preachers
Single 'Everything Must Go' (String Arrangement)
1996
(Vital)
Manic Street Preachers
Single 'This Is The Truth' (String Arrangements)
1998
(Vital)
Manic Street Preachers
Single 'Know Your Enemy' (String Arrangements)
2001
(Vital)
Angus & Julia Stone
Album 'A Book Like This' (String Arrangements)
2008
(Fiction)
Stephen Fretwell
Single 'New York' (String Arrangements)
2004
(BMG / RCA)
Natalie Imbruglia
Album ‘White Lilies Island’ (String Arrangements)
2001
(Parlophone)
Natalie Imbruglia
Album 'Counting Down The Days’ (String Arrangements)
2005
(Parlophone)
Tina Turner
Album 'All The Best' (Arrangements)
2004
(Parlophone)
Idlewild
Album ‘The Remote Part’ including the single ‘World In Your Arms’ (String Arrangements)
2002
(Independiente)
The Tears
Album ‘Here Come The Tears’ including the single ‘Refugee’ (Arrangements & Conducting)
2005
(Epic)
Kylie Minogue
Album 'Impossible Princess' (String Arrangements)
1997
(Sony)
Suede
Album 'A New Morning' (Arrangements)
2002
(Ultimate Dilemma)
Magnet
Album ‘On Your Side’ including the single ‘Lay Lady Lay’ (String Arrangements)
2003
(Creation)
Deep Purple
Live Performances & Album ‘Live At The Albert Hall With The London Symphony Orchestra’ (Arrangements)
1999
(earMUSIC)
Siouxsie Sioux
Live Perfromances & DVD ‘Dreamshow’ (Arrangements)
2005
(Spitfire / Eagle Rock Entertainment)
Additional arrangements for bands including:
Ocean Colour Scene, Jimmy Somerville, Kenesis, Toploader, Babybird, South, Cousteau, The Veils, Long-View, Dexy's Midnight, Runners, Darius, Funeral For A Friend
Recording, live & TV Work Includes:
Radiohead, Kate Nash, Manic Street Preachers, Masive Attack, Ed Harcourt, Super Furry Animals, Texas, Zero 7, John Cale, David Axelrod, White Lies, Muse, Paul McCartney, Bernard Butler, David Gray, Starsailor, Lisa Stansfield, The Boo Radleys, Nick Drake, Jools Holland Big, Band Ray Lamontagne, Duffy, The Doves, Spiritualised, Bog Brovaz, 3 Colours Red, Nerina Pallot, Bjork, Snow Patrol, Stereophonics, Elbow
Recording for film Includes:
Fever Pitch, The Tribe, Broken Glass, Jude, Peggy Sue, Death of a Salesman, Carravagio
Additional recordings and live performances with bands including:
Paul McCartney, John Cale, Massive Attack, Jools Holland Big Band, Nick Drake, Snow Parl, Elbow, David Gray, Texas, David Axelrod, The Doves, Super Furry, Animals, Bjork, Stereophonics, James Blunt