FilmMusicSite.com: Composer Talk
Exclusive interviews conducted by the editors of FilmMusicSite.com, a leading online resource dedicated to film music. The podcast features conversations with composers about their work, creative processes, and contributions to the world of cinema. Listeners gain insight into the art and craft of scoring movies through in-depth discussions.
Episodes
Interview Steven Price
Steven Price is a prolific composer whose unique, story-driven approach to the craft of film scoring has led him to work with many of Hollywood’s leading directors on some of the most innovative productions. From his Oscar-winning score for Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity to his scores for Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver and The Running Man, Price’s music, collaborative process, and experimentation have enhan
Interview Stephanie Economou
Stephanie Economou is a Grammy-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist whose music has been praised for its eclectic sophistication and emotionally immersive qualities. Her creative identity is born out of the exploration and study of many diverse musical styles, including classical, experimental, folk, electronic, and rock. Stephanie is the composer of DreamWorks’ animated features Ruby Gillma
Interview Takeshi Furukawa
Takeshi Furukawa is a Tokyo born composer who works and lives in Los Angeles. He composes music for stories told through film, television, and interactive media. Drawing on a deeply lyrical musical voice and a lifelong affinity for the orchestra, he creates scores where melody, beauty, and emotional storytelling remain at the heart of every work. His recent projects include Avatar: The Last Airben
Interview Double Danger
Double Danger is a duo of composers and producers based in Paris that emerged in 2023 through the collaboration of Xavier Caux and Douglas Cavanna. These self-taught musicians joined forces with the aim of transcending conventional and academic approaches to music composition. Their project seeks to push the boundaries, providing the works they support with an artistic experience beyond the usual
Interview Bruce Broughton
Bruce Broughton is a composer who writes music for film, television, video games and he is best known for his many motion picture scores, which include Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under, The Presidio, Miracle on 34th Street, Homeward Bound, and Harry and the Hendersons. His television themes include The Orville, JAG, Steven Spielberg’s Tiny Toon Adventures, and Dinosaurs. With 24 nomin
Interview Jessica Rose Weiss
Jessica Rose Weiss is a composer who’s music blends the emotional depth of orchestral storytelling with the texture of electronic and folk influences, creating a style that’s both cinematic and deeply human. Her credits include Sony/Amazon’s Cinderella, the Jennifer Lawrence comedy No Hard Feelings, Ryan Murphy’s anthology series American Horror Stories, and Nicol Paone’s stylish crime caper The K
Interview David Fleming
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
Interview Högni
Högni Egilsson is an Icelandic composer and performer working across concert music,film, and contemporary songwriting. His work moves between acoustic and electronic worlds,often exploring the relationship between musical language and narrative form. His film and television work includes the score for Touch (2024), directed by Baltasar Kormákur, the most attended film in Iceland that year. He also
Interview Tomás Videla
Tomás Videla is a Los Angeles based composer for film, television and media, who creates highly elaborate orchestral music often mixed with hybrid and electronic elements. He is also an experienced orchestrator and skilled conductor. He scored several short films from live action to animation. He wrote the music for Apple TV+ documentary series The Dynasty: New England Patriots, Mattel’s He-Man An
Interview Jeff Beal
Composer Jeff Beal is a Five-time EMMY® winner who is born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jeff was a self-taught pianist and spent countless hours in the library learning music theory and composition on his own. At the age of 17 he composed a trumpet concerto. Jeff writes music for the concert hall but also for film and television. He worked with directors such as Ed Harris, Lauren Gree
Interview Brian Tyler
Brian Tyler is an award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist, and conductor who has scored over 100 films grossing $17B worldwide, including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Iron Man 3, Crazy Rich Asians, The Fast and the Furious franchise, The Super Mario Bros. Movie. He is also the composer behind the themes for Formula 1 and the U.S. Open Golf Championships. He has worked on hit series such as Yello
Interview Paul Leonard-Morgan
Paul Leonard-Morgan 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, Cyberpunk 2077, Boston Strangler,… Recently he has been working on the score for Ama
Interview Alexandre Desplat
Two-time Oscar, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Grammy-winning composer Alexandre Desplat is one of the most respected film composers in the world today. Desplat first captivated American audiences with his score for The Girl With The Pearl Earring and Birth. He has since scored a range of acclaimed films, twelve of which have been Oscar-nominated: The Queen, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, The Imit
Interview Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman is an Oscar nominated composer who has written more than 100 film scores and is widely celebrated for his four-decade collaboration with director Tim Burton on films including Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Alice in Wonderland. Next to that he also wrote music for films such as Spider-Man, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Good
Interview Nicholas Pike
Nicholas Pike is an Emmy Award-winning Hollywood composer who has scored films ranging from the family-oriented Captain Ron, Return to Me and Virginia’s Run to darker films like Fear Dot Com, The Shining mini-series and The I Inside. He has scored large scale music videos like Michael Jackson’s Ghost, Rock My World and Will Smith’s Wild, Wild West. He won in 2013 the Outstanding Music and Sound E
Interview Blair Mowat
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 17-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
Interview Maurizio Malagnini
Maurizio Malagnini is an in Italia born composer. He developed a deep passion for music through opera particularly the lyrical traditions of Rossini and Puccini and the work of legendary film composers Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota. After a decade of study at the Italian conservatoire, he moved to the UK in 2006 to attend the Royal College of Music, graduating with a Master’s Distinction in Compos
Interview Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch is a London-based, Ivor Novello and BIFA nominated French composer, pianist and recording artist. In addition to scoring Prano Bailey-Bond’s debut feature "Censor", Emilie has created the original scores for Harry Wootliff’s 2018 BAFTA-nominated debut feature "Only You", WWII feature "The Forgotten Battle" (Slag om de Schelde) (dir.Matthijs
Interview Laurent Bouzereau
Laurent Bouzereau is an award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author. Laurent Bouzereau and his producing partner/husband, Markus Keith, run Nedland Media, a production company based in Los Angeles. He is the author of several books on cinema, including Steven Spielberg: The First Ten Years (2023), De Palma Decade (2024), Hitchcock: Piece by Piece, The Art of Bond, and others. As a filmmaker he
Interview Simon Franglen
Simon Franglen is a multi-award-winning composer and record producer whose work spans some of the most acclaimed films of the recent decades. Franglen composed the celebrated score for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, for which he received a 2023 World Soundtrack Award. His score was praised for expanding the sonic world of Pandora with both epic scale and profound intimacy, and was a glo
Interview Dave Porter
Dave Porter is a Los Angeles based composer for film and television. He began his classical musical training at the piano at age five, but it was his interest in electronic music as a teen that led him to start composing his own music. He studied both classical and electronic music composition at Sarah Lawrence College under John Yannelli and started his professional career as an assistant in Phil
Interview Oli Julian
Oli Julian is a UK based composer who is an RTS award-winning and Ivor nominated composer, producer and arranger of music for TV and film. He has written scores for a wide range of drama and comedy projects, as well as collaborating with other composers and songwriters such as David Byrne, Nick Cave and Ezra Furman. He has written music for films and series such as Sex Education, Renegade Nell, Th
Interview Natalie Holt
Natalie Holt is a multi-award-winning British composer, known equally for large orchestral arrangements and intimate, textural and at times experimental electro-acoustic compositions. Natalie Holt has written music for the Disney+ Marvel series Loki Season one and two and the LucasFilm Series Obi-Wan Kenobi. She was nominated for nominations for two Emmy Awards, as well as a BAFTA, SCL Awards, and
Interview Jeff Beal
Composer Jeff Beal is a Five-time EMMY® winner who is born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Jeff was a self-taught pianist and spent countless hours in the library learning music theory and composition on his own. At the age of 17 he composed a trumpet concerto. Jeff writes music for the concert hall but also for film and television. He worked with directors such as Ed Harris, Lauren Gree
Interview Austin Wintory
Austin Wintory is an American composer who started with music at a very young age. After nearly a decade scoring independent films and games, Austin’s career took a leap forward on the back of thatgamecompany’s hit PS3 title Journey. The soundtrack album debuted on the Billboard charts higher than any prior game’s original score, and in December 2012 became the first game score ever nominated for
Interview Debbie Wiseman
Debbie Wiseman grew up in a vibrant cultural environment in north west London, where she discovered an early passion for music and started composing at only eight years old.Wiseman is also known for her regular collaborations with British directors Peter Kosminsky, John Hay, Brian Gilbert, Simon Hunter and the late Lewis Gilbert. Her work has been recognized with wins and nominations at the Grammy
Interview Sam Slater
Sam Slater is a composer and producer working at the intersection of experimental music, sound design, and contemporary storytelling. His musical journey began in his teens with record production, followed by studies in Experimental Composition at Leeds University. He started his professional career in Germany, initially collaborating with Johann Johannsson as a principal musical sound designer an
Interview Dara Taylor
Dara Taylor is a composer who lives in the USA. Dara Taylor has emerged as a fresh voice in the world of film and television scoring, as evidenced by her work on Amazon Studios’ The Tender Bar, directed by Academy Award - winner George Clooney, and Universal Pictures’ Strays, starring Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx. Her most recent scoring project is the Netflix film Straw directed by Tyler Perry. Da
Interview Michael Abels
Composer Michael Abels is well known for the opera, Omar, and 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, and was named "Score of the Decade" by The Wrap. Both Us and Nope were shortlisted for the Oscar for Best Original Score, and Nope won Outstanding Original Scor
Interview Carlos Rafael Rivera
As protégé of Randy Newman, Rivera earned a DMA in Composition at USC's Thornton School of Music,where he studied with Donald Crockett and Stephen Hartke. Carlos is a 3 time Emmy Award winner who writes music for Film, TV and Performing Arts. He wrote the music for the immense popular Netflix limited series The Queen’s Gambit. He worked on Apple TV’s series Lessons in Chemistry, Netflix Grisel
Interview Marcelo Zarvos
Marcelo Zarvos is a composer who writes music for film and television. The subtle nuances of composer Marcelo Zarvos’ style are exemplified in his recent scores for Hulu’s Good American Family, Netflix’s critically acclaimed The Diplomat, May December directed by Todd Haynes, and Nonnas starring Vince Vaughn. Zarvos’ musical training began by studying classical music followed by exploring jazz, ro
Interview Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey
Max Aruj is a Los Angeles based composer known for his work in film, television, and video games. A graduate of the USC Thornton School of Music, he began his career working under Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, and Rupert Gregson-Williams, contributing to Top Gun: Maverick,Mission: Impossible-Fallout, Black Widow and The Crown. Among his varied projects, Aruj has written music for ,Crawl, Lansky, The I
Interview Raphaelle Thibaut
Raphaelle Thibaut is a French composer who started already playing the piano at the age of 4. She graduated the music conservatory of Lille in 2002. 2021 was a landmark year for her because she wrote the score for the Emmy Award-winning Disney+/National Geographic nature docuseries Secrets of the Wales. She continued with projects such as the documentary Introducing, Selma Blair, Fantastic Beasts:
Interview Raashi Kulkarni
Raashi Kulkarni is a composer, classical pianist, and flautist based in Los Angeles. She has established a distinct compositional voice that can be heard across a variety of genres including drama, comedy, science fiction, adventure, thriller, action, and animation. Raashi’s global perspective, study of different music disciplines, and passion for storytelling have been instrumental in the composi
Interview Diego and Lionel Baldenweg
Filmmusicsite.com has had the opportunity to talk to composers Diego and Lionel Baldenweg. he siblings Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg are a Swiss/Australian composer team. The Baldenwegs are a very versatile team and have composed unique scores for a wide range of different film genres. Their contemporary sound often blends theme based orchestral compositions with a pal
Interview Tom Howe
Tom Howe is a UK born composer who is a multi-instrumentalist. He writes large-scale orchestral scores, which he can easily combine with his talents in writing pop and rock music, and electronic sound design. Tom is not only a composer but also a songwriter who co-wrote f.i. the Emmy-nominated Ted Lasso theme, with Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons. Tom Howe has scored over 100 projects for fil
Interview Hannes De Maeyer
Hannes De Maeyer is one of Belgium’s most versatile composers, best known for his collaboration with director duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. They worked together on films such as Patser, Rebel, Black, Gangsta. Hannes also collaborated with director Dries Vos on projects such as the drama Professor T, both the Belgian as the English version. His work ranges from contemporary electronic scores
Interview Atli Örvarsson
Atli Örvarsson is an acclaimed Icelandic film and TV composer, conductor, and musician, with a vast body of work spanning film, television and video games. He has collaborated with artists including Hans Zimmer, RZA, Ólafur Arnalds, Khalid, and Talos. Örvarsson’s film credits include the political thriller 'Vantage Point,' Netflix’s ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga,’ ‘The Hitman’s
Interview Ruben De Gheselle
Ruben De Gheselle is an award-winning film and television composer who lives in Belgium. With a background in contemporary classical music, he knows how to create magic with just a few notes. With his intimate and hypnotic scores, he has contributed to several international productions, such as “Clara Sola,” which was selected for Cannes, the DOC NYC-nominated film “A Cops and Robbers Story,” the
Interview Dave Metzger
Dave Metzger is a seasoned composer and a true Disney veteran, Dave’s extensive experience as an orchestrator and composer includes projects such as Wish, Frozen (1&2), Moana, Tarzan and Brother Bear. He is also a highly regarded song arranger and orchestrater, having crafted the songs for many films, including the Academy Award winning “Frozen”, “Tarzan”, “Frozen 2”, “Moana”, “Wish”, and “Spi
Interview John Powell
John Powell is an Oscar nominated composer who writes music for film. He is born in the UK and lives in Los Angeles. He has written music for more than 90 films and worked with directors such as John Woo, Ron Howard, Paul Greengrass, Joe Wright, James Mangold, George Miller, Doug Liman, Dean Deblois and many more. He wrote music for films such as Face Off, the Jason Bourne trilogy, Solo: A Star Wa
Interview Mark Mancina
Mark Mancina is a three-time Grammy Award Winning American film composer and Tony Nominated music producer. Mancina has scored over sixty films and television series including Speed, Bad Boys, Twister, Training Day, Con Air, Criminal Minds, Blood+, Shooter, August Rush, Planes, and recently Clint Eastwood drama Juror #2.
He has collaborated with Walt Disney Animation Studios (WDAS), composing scor
Interview Lorenz Dangel
Lorenz is classically trained in composition and he is a multi-award-winning composer,
renowned for his versatility, creating music for film, concert performances, and ballet.
After the early success of his score to Tim Fehlbaums Thriller “Hell”, he showed his stylistic range in movies of different genres, among them “A Fortunate Man” by Bille August,
“Me and Kaminski” by Wolfgang Becker and the
Interview Mick Giacchino
Mick Giacchino is a composer for film and television in both live-action and animated mediums. He is the son of Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino. Since his debut with Jim Henson’s “Turkey Hollowin” 2015, Mick has contributed to projects such as Disney’s Zootopia+, Netflix’s animated feature Extinct,”The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell,” and additional music for “The Batman.” In 20
Interview Martin Phipps
Coming from a musical background (he is Benjamin Britten’s godson), Martin scored his first TV drama, Eureka Street in 2002. He has won 2 BAFTAs, 5 Ivor Novello Awards and received multiple Emmy nominations for writing music to many of the most interesting television series of recent years. These include the BBC’s War and Peace, Hugo Blick’s The Honourable Woman, Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror, Amaz
Interview Elliot Goldenthal
Elliot Goldenthal is an American born composer of filmmusic. As a composer Goldenthal has worked with famous directors such as Gus Van Sant, Michael Mann, David Fincher, Julie Taymor and Neil Jordan. He has composed music for films such as Interview with A Vampire, Michael Collins, Batman Forever, Batman and Robin, A Time to Kill, Frida, Sphere, Alien 3, Titus , Final Fantasy, and Public Enemies.
Interview Diego and Lionel Baldenweg
The siblings Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg & Lionel Baldenweg are a Swiss/Australian composer team. The Baldenwegs are a very versatile team and have composed unique scores for a wide range of different film genres. Their contemporary sound often blends theme based orchestral compositions with a palette of unique instruments and electronic sound scapes. In 2019 they were nominated for a
Interview Anthony Willis
As protege of Oscar-nominated composer John Powell, Anthony has contributed additional music to many of Hollywood’s major franchises including: How to Train your Dragon, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Jason Bourne and Rio. The BAFTA-nominated composer Anthony Willis became quickly one of the most highly sought after new voices in Hollywood. Anthony composed the score to Oscar-winning writer/director Eme
Interview Sophie Joos and Wim De Witte - World Soundtrack Awards Ghent 2024
This year on October 16th 2024 the 24th World Soundtrack Awards will be held during the 51st edition of the Film Festival in Ghent. The World Soundtrack Awards are Film Fest Ghent prestigious film music prizes honouring excellence in composing for screen. One of the esteemed guests will be French composer Philippe Rombi. American composer Elliot Goldenthal will receive a Life Time Achievement awar
Interview Marco Beltrami
Marco Beltrami is a two-time Oscar nominated and Emmy winning composer. He has collaborated with many iconic film directors including Kathryn Bigelow, James Mangold, Robert Rodriguez, Tommy Lee Jones, and John Woo. He established an early reputation as a genre innovator with his non-traditional horror scores for the Scream franchise. Recently he proved again to be a champion in the genre with his
Interview Rob Simonsen
Rob Simonsen is a composer who lives in the USA. His first break into film composing was the independent feature “Westender” in 2003 which caught the attention of composer Mychael Danna. In 2004, he teamed up with Danna and provided additional music and arrangements on Surf's Up, Fracture, Moneyball, and the Oscar®-winning Life of Pi. Since then, Rob Simonsen has continued relationships with l
Interview Nick Chuba
Nick Chuba is a composer living and working in Los Angeles. After studying at USC’s Thornton School of Music, he began working for Atticus Ross and has collaborated on numerous projects with him since 2014. Most recently, Chuba composed the score for the feature film Thelma, which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Festival. Other recent credits include Dr. Death (Peacock) and The Girl from Plainville
Interview Andrea Datzman
Andrea Datzman is a composer of filmmusic who lives in California. Over the years, Datzman's work has run the gamut from major features (Zooptopia, Spiderman: Homecoming, Let Me In, Cars 2, Speed Racer) several TV series (Lost, Alcatraz, UnderCovers) as well as video games (Up, Ratatouille). She most recently scored Carl’s Date which premiered in front of Elemental in June of 2023. This short
Interview John Debney
John Debney is an Oscar-nominated and multi-Emmy-winning composer. Debney is an agile jack-of-all-genres, composing for comedies (Bruce Almighty), sci-fi action (Predators), horror (Dream House) and romance (Valentine’s Day) with the same confidence and panache. Debney is also known for his work in such films as Princess Diaries, Elf, Sin City, Liar Liar, Spy Kids, Cutthroat Island, The Emperor’s
Interview Amelia Warner
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
Interview Alex Heffes
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
Interview Rachel Portman & Jon Ehrlich
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 w
Interview Gareth Coker
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
Interview Chris Benstead
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
Interview David Fleming
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
Interview Blair Mowat
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
Interview Hildur Guðnadóttir
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
Interview Jon Everist
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 h
Interview Simon Franglen
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 th
Interview Pinar Toprak
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
Interview Dascha Dauenhauer
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
Interview Marcelo Zarvos
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
Interview Michael Abels
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.
Interview Susan DiBona & Salvatore Sangiovanni
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
Interview Mychael Danna
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
Interview Laura Rossi
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
Interview Rachel Portman
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
Interview Gustavo Santaolalla
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
Interview Paul Leonard-Morgan
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
Interview Mark Tewarson
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
Interview Jon Ekstrand & Carl-Johan Sevedag
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.
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Jon Ekstrand and Carl-Johan Sevedag are filmmusi
Interview Jason Graves
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
Interview Joris Hermy
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
Interview Alastair McNamara
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
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