Biog
Ella Wahlström was born in Finland where she studied violin and moved to London in 2010 to train at Rose Bruford College. Ella is the sound designer of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Cello Concerto which had its world premiere in Chicago in 2017 with Yo-Yo Ma as the soloist. She’s an original sound operator of the multi-award-winning The Encounter by Simon McBurney, Complicite, which toured internationally including London and Broadway. She’s also the co-sound designer of Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov’s Letter to a Man. Other Sound Design credits include: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (London West End, UK and international tour) Black&White (SJACC, Kuwait), Trying it On (UK tour, RSC, Royal Court), End of the Pier (Park Theatre), Jellyfish (The Bush), This Restless State (The Oval House), Of Kith and Kin (Sheffield Crucible / The Bush), The Life (English Theatre Frankfurt), The Ballad of Robin Hood, A Study in Scarlet, Klippies and In Lambeth (Southwark Playhouse), The Bunker Trilogy, The Frontier Trilogy, The Capone Trilogy and Sirenia (Edinburgh Fringe / International Tour), Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre), Titus Andronicus (Arcola), Theatre Uncut (Theatre Uncut, Young Vic), The Revenger’s Tragedy and Henry V (Old Red Lion Theatre). As Associate Sound Designer: Othello (Frantic Assembly), JOHN (DV8), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Michael Grandage Company).