FilmMusicSite.com: Composer Talk

Amelia Warner is a British female composer for film. Her debut major scoring project, a British short film ‘Mam’, which won several awards, was the launch of her career as a composer for film. In 2018 she scored the Irish-American film Mary Shelley for director Haifa al-Mansour, for which she wrote an otherworldly music for an orchestra haunted by ethereal female vocals. In 2022 she wrote a contem...

Alex Heffes is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and 3 x Ivor Novello nominated composer who has scored over 70 feature films and TV projects. He has worked with many of cinema’s top filmmakers including Steven Frears, Kevin Macdonald, Catherine Hardwicke, Mira Nair, Michael Keaton & J J Abrams. He has written music for films such as The Last King of Scotland, State of Play, Queen Of Katwe, Escape Plan, K...

Rachel Portman is a British composer who became the first woman composer to win an Academy Award, which she received for her work on Emma. She is also the first woman composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, for her work on Bessy. She has written music for films such as Chocolat, Emma, The Cider House Rules, Their Finest, Godmothered and many more.   Jon Ehrlich is a highly accomplished composer wi...

Gareth Coker is a British composer and producer working out of Los Angeles. He is known for his melodically driven scores, unique soundscapes, and attention to detail and execution. Gareth has won multiple awards like f.i. the Ivor Novello Award for Best Original Video Game Score and multiple Game Audio Network Guild awards. He wrote the music to many acclaimed video games such as Ori and the Will...

Chris Benstead is a British composer of filmmusic, he is a versatile multi-instrumentalist and achieved a First-Class honours in music and sound recording from the University of Surrey. He won an Academy and BAFTA Award for his mixing skills on the film Gravity. Recent additions to his impressive portfolio include scoring the action thrillers Jericho Ridge and Rupture directed by Hamza Jamjoom. Ch...

David Fleming is an American Born composer who began his career in New York writing music for commercials and creating ringtones tones. In 2017 David composed the score for the BBC's internationally acclaimed Blue Planet II alongside Hans Zimmer, which marked the start of a collaborative relationship with the Academy Award-winning composer, encompassing music for films such as Dune, Hillbilly...

Blair Mowat is a composer from Scotland, Edinburgh who writes music for television and film. He studied at Durham university and Bristol University. He is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer with over 15-years’ experience,His work includes Class, an acclaimed 8-part Doctor Who spin-off series on BBC One, ITV’s international hit show McDonald & Dodds and SKY’s The Amazing Mr. Blunden. He...

Hildur Guðnadóttir is an Icelandic composer, cello player and singer who writes music for film, television, video games, theatre, dance and art installations. With her music for the film Joker she has won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Bafta Award and the Composer of the Year Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent. She has written music for films such as Joker, Women Talking, Tár, the televisi...

Jon Everist is a multi award-winning and ASCAP-nominated composer for games and film. He has written music for franchises such as Overwatch 2, Shadowrun and BattleTech. Recently Jon worked on the video game The Lamplighters League. The score for this game was recorded at the world famous Abbey Road Studios in London. In this new episode of Composer Talk composer Jon Everist talks in-depth about hi...

Simon Franglen is an English composer of classical and film music. He is also a record producer and former musician. His credits include four of the list of top grossing films and six of the list of best-selling albums of all time. Over the last year, Simon was credited as the composer for his first two films Avatar: The Way of Water and Notre-Dame on Fire, though he is in no way a newcomer to the...

Pinar Toprak is a Turkish-American Emmy-nominated composer, conductor and performer. At the age of 5 she enrolled in the local music conservatory in Istanbul learning to play the violin and the guitar. At the age of 17 she moved to Chicago in the United States. She started at the Berklee College of Music in Boston to study jazz. Pinar Toprak has written music for video games, television series and...

Dascha Dauenhauer is a composer who is born in Russia. She began composing and playing the piano at the age of five and studied composition at the Moscow Music Conservatory as a child. Her family moved to Berlin and continued her studies there. In 2006, she began her diploma studies in music theory at the UDK Berlin and subsequently completed her master’s program in film music at the Film Universi...

In this episode of Composer Talk you can listen to an interview with Brazilian composer Marcelo Zarvos. He has written music for over more than 60 films. We talk about his score to The Equalizer 3, the latest action hit starring Denzel Washington and directed by Antoine Fuqua. Marcelo is having a busy second half of 2023 because he has also worked on the films such as Flamin' hot, directed by...

In this new episode of Composer Talk I talk to composer Michael Abels. Michael Abels is an Emmy- and Grammy-nominated composer. He is best known for his genre-defying scores for the Jordan Peele films GET OUT, US and NOPE. The score for US won a World Soundtrack Award, the Jerry Goldsmith Award, a Critics Choice nomination, multiple critics awards, and was named “Score of the Decade” by The Wrap....

American-born composer Susan DiBona and her Italian composing partner Salvatore Sangiovanni have worked on nearly 50 original film and television scores as well as music for commercials, opera, games, top 40 pop music, musical theater, and ballet since creating The Villa Studios Praia a Mare in southern Italy. Susan DiBona is a seasoned film composer and multi-instrumentalist who began studying pi...

Mychael Danna is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning film composer who has composed over 80 film scores and is recognized for his blending of non-western traditions with orchestral and electronic music. He composed the transculturally inspired, 2013 Oscar and Golden Globe winning film score for Ang Lee's Life of Pi. Danna also composed the scores for Ang Lee's The Ice Storm and Ride Wi...

In this new episode of Composer Talk we talk to English composer Laura Rossi. She is a composer for film, TV and concert music. Her music has been described as ‘hauntingly atmospheric with emotional depth and beauty’ Her credits include Battle of the Somme, London to Brighton, Song for Marion, BFI Silent Shakespeare, The Cottage, Hurricane and ITV 6-part drama Redemption. In 2016-17 one hundred or...

In this new episode of Composer Talk you can listen to an interview with the talented Rachel Portman. She has written music for more than 100 films, television shows and theatre productions. In 1997 she was the first female composer to win an Oscar for Best Original Score for the film Emma. She has written music for films such as Emma, The Cider House Rules, The Duchess, The Legend of Bagger Vance...

Filmmusicsite.com had the opportunity to talk to composer Gustavo Santaolalla. Gustavo Santaolalla is a talented musician, composer and producer who is born in Argentina. He started to play the guitar at the age of five. He performed music and worked with a lot of artists such as Malta Vecindad, Julieta Venegas, Los Prisioneros and many more. By the year of 2000 he started his career as a composer...

Filmmusicsite.com talked to composer Paul Leonard-Morgan. He is a composer who writes music for film, television and video games. His unique cinematic style of fusing orchestra with electronica has put him in high demand as a score composer & band producer, as well as a performer and artist in his own right. His film scores include DREDD, LIMITLESS, LAST BREATH, GIGI & NATE and the upcomin...

In this new episode of Composer Talk we talk to composer Mark Tewarson. He is a composer living in L.A. who has written the music for the film Assassin. The film is directed by Jesse Atlas starring Bruce Willis and Andy Allo. In this interview Mark talks in-depth about his music for this film. We go into his composing process and how he created the theme's. He's a talented composer who started fro...

In this new Composer Talk Swedish Composers Jon Ekstrand and Carl-Johan Sevedag talk about their latest film Opponent. This film had just its world premiere during the Berlinale film festival in Berlin, Germany. They talk about how they worked together on writing the music for this film. They give us an in-depth look in there working process. About: Jon Ekstrand and Carl-Johan Sevedag are filmmusi...

Jason Graves is a composer who has written music for Video Games, Film and television. He is a two-time British Academy Award-winning composer. He has written music for video games such as Dead Space 1 + 2, Tomb Raider, Moss and Moss: Book II. Recently he has worked on The Dark Pictures Anthology which includes titles such as Man of Medan, Little Hope, House of Ashes and the most recent one The De...

Joris Hermy is een componist die muziek schrijft voor tv, theater, radio en film. Hij woont in het West-Vlaamse Izegem. Hij schreef muziek voor o.a. de Studio 100 reeks Kosmoo en de VTM series Gina & Chantal. Werkte aan succesvolle kortfilms zoals Boxcar, Oxygene en The Chromakey Man. Deze maand kan je in de Belgische bioscoop tevens ook luisteren naar zijn muziek voor zijn allereerste langspe...

Composer Alastair McNamara writes music for TV, video games and documentaries. He’s studied composition for Film & TV at the National Film and Television School. He has an eclectic musical background as a composer. He can easily weave electronic, vocal and orchestral styles. He has written music for the short award winning documentary Tease. He has worked on the music for TV shows such as seas...