Studio Soundtracks (Chandler Poling)

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

FREDERIK WIEDMANN
Emmy-award winning Frederik Wiedmann is one of the most diverse and cultivated composers working in motion pictures today. With over 150 titles to his name in all realms and genres, Wiedmann has established himself as insightful artist with an enduring passion for storytelling. Recently, Wiedmann composed music for Star Trek: Picard (Season 3) for Paramount+, Women is Losers starring Simu Liu, which premiered at SXWX in early 2021. Wiedmann is the composer behind the acclaimed Netflix animated fantasy series The Dragon Prince, which is from the writers of the popular series Avatar: The Last Airbender, for which he earned an Emmy nomination in the original score category. In 2016, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of “Outstanding Original Song” alongside lyricist Mitch Watson, for the song “True Bromance” from Dreamworks Animation’s Madagascar spinoff All Hail King Julien. Wiedmann has been a main stay in the DC cinematic universe, starting with his work onGreen Lantern: The Animated Series, for which he earned two consecutive Annie Awards nominations. His success on the series led to further popular Warner Bros’ DC projects such as,Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Son of Batman, Death of Superman, Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight among others. He currently lives in LA with his wife and two wonderful children.

STEPHEN BARTON
Stephen Barton’s extensive credits in film, television and video games include Star Trek: Picard, writing the music for all sixteen seasons of Apex Legends; and penning the scores for both Star Wars: Jedi games, Multiversus, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, 12 Monkeys, and Unlocked, amongst over four dozen other projects. The live service games he has scored (Apex, Multiversus) have over 300 million regular players worldwide. Born in 1982, at the age of eight he won a prestigious scholarship to sing in Winchester Cathedral Choir, touring the world and performing with numerous orchestras and soloists at venues such as Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall; and appearing on more than a dozen albums. He began his composing career at 19, as an assistant to Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, The Chronicles of Narnia, Kingdom of Heaven), moving to Los Angeles from his native UK, in 2001

GORDY HAAB
Gordy Haab is a multi-award-winning film, video game, and television composer who has written music for many well-known titles, including Star Wars: Squadrons, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Microsoft’s Halo Wars 2, and Star Wars: Battlefront I and II, among others. In 2022, Haab was nominated for an International Film Music Critics award for his work on the feature film My Country, My Parents, and was bestowed the inaugural “Music City Maestro” Award by the Society of Composers and Lyricists for his ongoing support of the Nashville music and recording community. In October 2022, his music from Star Wars: Battlefront I and II was featured as part of DICE’s 30th anniversary concert series and performed by the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Haab is known for his unsurpassed understanding of the orchestra as well as his unique ability to blend contemporary and traditional sounds into one – oftentimes conceiving and creating brand new musical instruments to feature in his scores. He has recorded and conducted his music with orchestras from all around the world, including The London Symphony Orchestra, The San Francisco Symphony, The Nashville Symphony and the Hollywood Studio Orchestra.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

ALLYSON NEWMAN:
Allyson Newman earned her Master’s degree in Composition from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Her first feature film, Watermark, screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003. She then moved to LA to study film scoring at USC. Allyson has been awarded both an Australia Council for the Arts Grant and an Australian Guild of Screen Composers Award. Allyson scored the multi award winning documentary feature Limited Partnership that premiered on PBS Independent Lens in 2015. In 2016 Allyson scored the Emmy nominated media series Her Story. In July 2017 Allyson participated in the BMI Conducting Workshop and then went on to score Kusama-Infinity which premiered at Sundance and was released theatrically around the world in September 2018. Allyson collaborated with Oscar Winning directors Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein to score State of Pride which opened the SXSW Film Festival 2019. In 2019 Allyson scored Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. She is a member of the Television Academy and is on the leadership team for the Alliance for Women Film Composers. Most recently Allyson scored the HULU series First Day and is currently in production for Season 3 of The L Word- Generation Q as well as a new Netflix drama series called Partner Track.

JASHA KLEBE
Jasha Klebe is a composer known for emotive melodies and impactful scores. Most notably, Jasha co-scored the BAFTA and Emmy nominated music of BBC’s Planet Earth II, alongside Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea. He additionally provided music to the follow up series, Blue Planet II, as well as wrote the Emmy nominated music of National Geographic’s Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes. Jasha also composed the score to Netflix’s Oscar nominated documentary, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom and National Geographic’s, Diana: In Her Own Words. In 2019, Jasha composed the score to the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, The Black Godfather, directed by Reginald Hudlin and produced by Nicole Avant. In 2021 he scored FOX’s Malika the Lion Queen narrated by Angela Bassett as well music for Garrett Bradley’s Naomi Osaka series. He also wrote the music for Imperative Entertainment’s podcast, The Agent, as well as Netflix/Plimsoll’s nature documentary series, Animal. His music can be most recently heard on Peacock’s upcoming reimagining of Queer As Folk, created by Stephen Dunn and executive produced by Russell T Davies.

Jasha began his musical career at the age of 5, singing at his Grandparents’ opera house, Cinnabar Theater, in Petaluma, CA. He studied classical piano and trombone for over 15 years before he moved to Los Angeles and started working at Remote Control Productions under Hans Zimmer. Over the 4 years with Hans, Jasha wrote on such films as The Dark Knight Rises, Rush, Man of Steel, and several other notable projects. Jasha was also the music arranger for the 84th Academy Awards, as well as keyboard/ synthesizer player within the event’s orchestra. In 2013, Jasha began to serve as one of the headlining composers at Bleeding Fingers Music. Within this role, Jasha contributed countless hours of music to some of the most acclaimed series on television, including shows on ABC, CBS, MTV, Netflix, Lifetime, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, National Geographic, BBC, and he performed live
on The Late Show with Colbert alongside Shea and Zimmer.

Jasha currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

ABOUT DYNAMIC MUSIC PARTNERS:

Emmy Award-winning composers Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter, collectively known as Dynamic Music Partners, have created hundreds of hours of music for a variety of different genres, including TV series, independent films, video games and live performance events. They have collectively earned twenty-eight Emmy Award nominations and six Annie Award nominations as composers for Marvel’s Avengers Assemble, Batman: The Brave And The Bold, Justice League, Teen Titans, Batman Beyond, The Zeta Project and The New Batman Superman Adventures. Original concert works and suites of their scores have been performed in festivals and special events; from New York’s Lincoln Center to The Hollywood Bowl, The Kennedy Center, The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, Tenerife – Spain and beyond, their music has received critical acclaim. Their Prime-time Emmy Award nominated musical Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Mayhem of the Music Meister, starring Neil Patrick Harris was a historic first Batman musical to ever be composed.

They began their careers composing music for Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond, for which they each received the Emmy Award in Music Direction and Composition. As orchestrators they have worked with many of Hollywood’s A-list composers, including Michael Kamen, Basil Poledouris, Howard Shore, Carter Burwell, Elliot Goldenthal, Mark Snow and Shirley Walker. Kristopher, Michael and Lolita are currently working on the third season of Marvel’s Avengers Assemble. They recently completed scoring a feature length documentary An Act of Love, which received the silver award at the Mill Valley Film Festival, as well as composed 4 hours of original music for radio-play audio book Rain of the Ghosts. Their feature film Marvel Superhero Adventures: Frost Fight will premiere in December 2015. They are working on 3 top secret feature length animated projects, with announcements coming in 2016.

Kristopher, Michael and Lolita work both collectively and individually. Kristopher recently completed the score to the Webby-nominated short film The Birds Of Anger for G4TV and just returned from a series of lectures at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Michael recently scored the latest Griffith Observatory production Time’s Up which is now playing at the observatory in the Samuel Oschin Planetarium. Lolita has been very active in the concert music arena this past season, having had works performed at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C, 2 original musicals – receiving performances in Latvia throughout 2014-2015, as well as the premiere of her symphonic work Overture to Light. This remarkable and very contemporary trio of composers and performers is an example of creative collaboration, business savvy, and artistic expression of the highest, most original level. They are currently working in today’s industry and are examples and role models for aspiring film composers everywhere.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

BLAIR MOWAT

Blair Mowat has composed well over two hundred scores for film, theatre, and television, with clients ranging from The English National Ballet and The Royal Shakespeare Company to the likes of BBC, SKY & ITV. He is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer with over 15 years of experience, and is consistently in high demand. His work includes Class, an acclaimed 8-part Doctor Who spin-off series on BBC One, ITV International / Britbox’s hit show McDonald & Dodds, and SKY’s The Amazing Mr. Blunden.
He composed the music to Russell T Davies’s latest drama Nolly, starring Helena Bonham Carter, earning him a TV BAFTA nomination for the score. This collaboration then led on to Men Up, a film Russell exec-produced, airing on BBC1 in late 2023. Doctor Jekyll, a new Hammer Horror film starring Eddie Izzard, will be released in the USA later this year.

Blair currently splits his time between Los Angeles, London and Edinburgh.

PAUL LEONARD-MORGAN

Paul Leonard-Morgan is a BAFTA award-winning, Emmy and Ivor Novello-nominated composer and producer. 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 20th Century Studios BOSTON STRANGLER, starring Keira Knightley, directed by Matt Ruskin. He has worked on a string of projects with Academy-Award winning director Errol Morris including the features THE B-SIDE, MY PSYCHEDELIC LOVE STORY, the award-winning Netflix series WORMWOOD and the Steve Bannon documentary AMERICAN DHARMA. Recent projects include this years’ INHERITANCE (teaming up again with Neil Burger), the Sundance feature THE TOMORROW MAN (starring Blythe Danner and John Lithgow), BEST SELLERS (starring Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza), the Emmy-winning The Hunt For Planet B, directed by Academy-Award nominee Nathaniel Kahn, as well as the HBO feature documentary LUCY THE HUMAN CHIMP. His collaborations with legendary composer Philip Glass began on Amazon’s series TALES FROM THE LOOP, winning them numerous awards, and continued with THE GREEN VEIL.

After beginning his career working with bands such as No Doubt, Simple Minds, Isobel Campbell, Snow Patrol & Belle and Sebastian, Leonard-Morgan went on to work on films including three short films accompanying Universal Studio’s DESPICABLE ME 2 and Fox/Evergreen’s $80 million feature animation WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D. Leonard-Morgan’s first video game soundtrack (EA Games’ flagship BATTLEFIELD HARDLINE) was released in 2015, the success of which led him to score WARHAMMER: DAWN OF WAR 3 released in 2017, followed by the global hit CYBERPUNK 2077 and CALL OF DUTY MOBILE in 2021.

Recent concert work includes his concerto commission for Orchestre Nationale de Bretagne, which premiered in France in 2021 and his latest album of études for piano and cello which is currently being choreographed by members of the San Francis ballet.

Currently you can listen to Paul’s score for Showtime’s FELLOW TRAVELERS for Paramount+ which is streaming now, written by Academy Award-nominee Ron Nyswaner (PHILADELPHIA). His latest collaboration with Philip Glass, for the documentary feature film THE PIGEON TUNNEL, premiered at Telluride and TIFF, and has received a Critics’ Choice Award nomination and Cinema Eye Honors nomination for Best Score. His most recent score can be heard in Netflix’s new original drama series, BODKIN (the first series by the Obama’s production company Higher Ground) as well as the new feature Last Breath (feat Woody Harrelson).

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

ESTE HAIM:
Este Haim is a GRAMMY nominated musician, composer, actor, and writer. In 2007, Este and her sisters, Danielle and Alana, founded HAIM, their all-female rock band in which Este sings as well as plays the bass. HAIM made history in 2021 as the first all-female rock group to be nominated for GRAMMY Album of The Year with their third album, “Women In Music Pt. III.” Throughout her music career, Este has collaborated with many artists including Kid Cudi, Charli XCX, Thundercat, and Taylor Swift.

In 2021, Este scored the critically acclaimed Netflix limited series, “MAID,” starring Margaret Qualley. She also completed the score for her first feature film, “Cha Cha Real Smooth,” starring Dakota Johnson, alongside her composing partner Christopher Stracey. The film premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.
Additionally, Este made her feature film debut in Paul Thomas Anderson’s, LICORICE PIZZA, which released December 25, 2021.

CHRISTOPHER STRACEY:
Christopher Stracey is a multi-platinum record producer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer currently based in Los Angeles, California. He scored Cooper Raiff’s “Cha Cha Real Smooth”, alongside collaborator Este Haim, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2022. Additionally, in collaboration with Este, Chris scored the Netflix hit TV series “Maid”. He has also scored a feature film for Riley Keough and Gina Gammell of Felix Culpa.

He grew up studying classical violin from an early age, and later moved on to guitar, clarinet, saxophone, and keyboards before discovering the near unlimited possibilities of electronic music production. He has worked with many popular artists as a writer, producer, and composer including Orville Peck, Paloma Faith, Conan Gray, Ellie Goulding, Diplo, Westside Boogie, Morly and Seramic, among others. He has also remixed artists such as Maroon 5, Pnau, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Jungle Giants, and more.

He has also had a long running artist career for over a decade as one half of Australian Synth-pop/Dance music group Bag Raiders, which has earned him platinum and gold records across multiple singles in multiple countries around the world including the USA, Australia, Germany and more.

He has released a solo record entitled “Music for Growing Plants” featuring some ambient and instrumental compositions which reflect his explorations into different sonic worlds through both organic and electronic instrumentation.

For this special Membership Drive edition of Studio Soundtracks, host Chandler Poling interviews composers Rachel Portman and Jon Ehrlich.

RACHEL PORTMAN
British composer Rachel Portman 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. Rachel is currently collaborating with three-time Emmy nominated composer Jon Ehrlich on the Hulu Holocaust drama WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES.

With over a hundred film scores, other credits include THE DUCHESS, OLIVER TWIST, ONE DAY, BELOVED, THE VOW, GODMOTHERED, LIFE IS SWEET, and THEIR FINEST. Rachel also ventures into stage productions, like the musical LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE and an opera of THE LITTLE PRINCE for Houston Grand Opera.

She has received two further Academy Nominations for THE CIDER HOUSE RULES and CHOCOLAT, which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination.  In 2023 she received her second Primetime Emmy Award for JULIA.

Beyond film, she’s composed for concerts and solo piano albums, such as “Ask the River” (2020), “Eden” (2021), “Beyond the Screen” (2023) and “Tipping Points” (2024). 

West Sussex-born Rachel Portman, a composer since age 14, studied music at the University of Oxford. Given an OBE in 2010, Rachel is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Music.

JON EHRLICH
With nearly a thousand primetime television episodes scored and three Primetime Emmy nominations, Jon Ehrlich is a highly accomplished composer with a prolific list of scoring credits encompassing a broad range of projects. He is currently collaborating with Academy Award winning composer Rachel Portman on Hulu’s Holocaust series WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES.

Notably nominated for Emmys for his work on HOUSE, M.D., ROAR and THE AGENCY, Ehrlich’s diverse credits also include winning Best Music in a Feature Film at the Nashville Film Festival for ASK ME ANYTHING. Jon’s extensive repertoire encompasses projects like GOLIATH, PARENTHOOD, and WHITE COLLAR, amongst many others.

A Yale University graduate, Jon is also a founder of Qwire, a collaborative, cloud based, web platform that streamlines workflows across every aspect of the music to picture ecosystem, while managing music assets and all associated music metadata. 

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Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

Natalie Holt is a multi-award-winning British composer, known for her Emmy-nominated score for Marvel Studios’ Loki and the acclaimed Lucasfilm series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Upcoming projects include DC’s Batgirl.

Her film and television credits include the BAFTA Award-winning series Wallander (BBC), Knightfall (History Channel), the BAFTA Award-winning series Three Girls (BBC), mini-series Deadwater Fell, the Emmy Award-nominated series The Honourable Woman (HBO Max), Victoria (PBS), Saul Dibb’s World War I feature Journey's End, Netflix/Claudia Llosa’s drama feature Fever Dream, and Fox’s female super hero feature The Princess, to name just a few.

Natalie’s numerous awards nominations and wins include the Primetime Emmy Awards, World Soundtrack Awards’ “Television Composer of the Year”, BAFTA, SCL Awards, the Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award, the HMMAs, and “Best International Score” at the Beijing International Film Festival.

Hesham Nazih is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated Egyptian composer best known for his unique style that interweaves a mix of melodies from different cultures, creating an authentic genre all his own. He has scored over 40 award-winning films that have dominated the Egyptian box-office such as director Marwan Hamed’s musically-intense horror features Blue Elephant and Blue Elephant: Dark Whispers, as well as director Tarek Alarian’s Sons of Rizk 1-2, his breakthrough score for Snakes and Ladders, as well as Marwan Hamed’s Ibrahim Labyad.

Nazih marked his first major English language project with his Emmy-nominated score for Marvel Studios’ Moon Knight on Disney+, for which he was also invited to become a member of The Television Academy. He has also composed for critically acclaimed Egyptian television works including The Seven Commandments and Shahid’s first original Egyptian series Every Week Has a Friday, which earned Egypt its first-ever International Emmy nomination.

Among Nazih’s other most notable works, he earned both international attention and acclaim for his original music and songs written for the lavish live production The Pharaohs’ Golden Parade in 2021, and he is the first and only composer to ever receive the honorary Faten Hamama Excellence Award from the 2018 Cairo International Film Festival.

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Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

CRAIG WEDREN
Craig Wedren first gained notice as the dynamic, multi-octave-wielding frontman of Shudder to Think. With its eccentric song structures and complex time signatures, Shudder to Think would prove a significant influence on math rock, post-hardcore, and emo. Since the band wound down in the late-’90s, Wedren has released a series of solo albums and related collaborative projects, and his music has become an essential part of some of film and television’s most popular and lauded shows.

Beginning with the soundtracks for the late-’90s films High Art and First Love, Last Rites along with his Shudder to Think bandmates, Craig’s composing resume has gone on to include extensively working with director Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) and David Wain (Role Models, Wet Hot American Summer). Wedren would go on to create evocative, decidedly contemporary scores for cultural-touchstone films and television series including The School of Rock, Laurel Canyon, Reno 911!, GLOW (Netflix), Fresh Off the Boat (ABC), Shrill (Hulu), New Amsterdam (NBC) and, most recently, the wildly popular Showtime series YELLOWJACKETS.

ANNA WARONKER
Anna Waronker is a composer, songwriter, singer and artist. Well known as the front woman and songwriter for the Los Angeles based band that dog., Anna has taken her unique melodic and harmonic sensibility and personal lyrical wit into composing for film and television.

Notable scores and soundtracks include the limited series adaptation of Tegan & Sara’s best-selling memoir, High School (FreeVee), Shrill (Hulu) with whom she co-composed with Craig Wedren, I Love That For You (Paramount+ with Showtime), the animated series Harriet The Spy (Apple), the cult classic Josie And The Pussycats, Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and many more.

Anna has also worked in theater as a composer penning the music, book and lyrics with Charlotte Caffey (Go-Go’s) for Lovelace A Rock Opera (The Hayworth Theater, Edinburgh Fringe Festival) and songs and score for a musical adaptation of Hit The Wall and Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Los Angeles LGBT Center/Davidson/Valentini Theatre).

As a singer, performer and recording artist, Anna has produced and released two solo albums and four albums with that dog., most recently the critically acclaimed Old LP (UMe) in 2019.

Recently, Anna has been busy working on the third season of Call Me Kat (Fox) and the young adult mystery School Spirits (Paramount+). Anna is currently working on the second season of the Emmy nominated and Critic’s Choice winner Yellowjackets (Paramount+ with Showtime) with Craig Wedren. The duo write and perform a very unique and celebrated score. For season two of Yellowjackets, Anna and Craig have written an original song that features Hedwig and the Angry Inch’s John Cameron Mitchell and collaborated with Alanis Morrisette on an alternate version of their Hollywood Music in Media Awards winning main title of Yellowjackets entitled “No Return.”

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

BRENDAN ANGELIDES

Brendan Angelides’ (formerly known as ESKMO) arrival at the world of scoring in 2016 was exactly the opportunity he had been hoping for. It felt conducive to the narrative process and sonic aesthetic he had developed in his work as a recording artist, being deeply in the mindset of The Echo Society, a collaborative of local Los Angeles artists and composer, at the time and recognizing the potential of his sound within a visual framework. Since 2016, Angelides has written the soundtracks for seven seasons of Billions, as well as Echoes (Netflix), Super Pumped (Showtime) and the 2021 film Naked Singularity. While scoring the four seasons of Netflix’s celebrated 13 Reasons Why, he collaborated with Selena Gomez to produce a cover of Yazoo’s “Only You.”

In 2023, Angelides’ embrace of new creative territories expands again as he presents his first video game score with Assassin’s Creed: Mirage. Bringing his electronic artistry to the Ubisoft adventure set in ninth century Baghdad, Angelides worked with musicians connected with the region and culture including the New York Arabic Orchestra and Tunisian artist Emel Mathlouthi, whose viral protest song during the Arab Spring inspired the theme for Mirage’s courageous female lead.

The year also marks Angelides’ most ambitious project with The Echo Society to date. Their soundtrack to director Darren Aronofsky’s forthcoming film ‘Postcard from Earth’ was showcased at the world’s largest 4K screen at the Sphere, Las Vegas, across 160,000 speakers and 1600 subwoofers.

NIMA FAKHRARA

Iranian-born composer Nima Fakhrara has honed his craft for nearly twenty years by scoring more than 100 feature films, multiple AAA game franchises and international television shows, as well as crafting commercial music for boutique brands. This massive body of work led acclaimed director Anna Forester to tap Nima as composer for Bad Robot’s latest feature film LOU (2022, starring Academy Award winner Allison Janney).

His unique blend of East-meets-West and command of striking, sonic textures and timbres led gaming legend David Cage to select him to compose the music for 2018’s wildly successful and critically acclaimed DETROIT BECOME HUMAN and the announcement to the Star Wars video game franchise ECLIPSE. Other gaming credits include WARHAMMER: SPACE MARINES 2, RESIDENT EVIL: REVELATIONS 2 and 1979 REVOLUTION.

While his music is found all over the American media landscape, the composer’s musical journey started back in Tehran at age five. Young Nima lugged his santur up six flights of stairs for each lesson with a master instructor. This early education imbued Fakhrara with a firm grasp of Persian classical music, an unyielding discipline, and a knack for complex rhythms. After moving to the Washington DC area at age 12, Fakhrara later earned a degree in composition from California State University while simultaneously studying ethnomusicology and Music Anthropology.

Studio Soundtracks is made possible in part by the generous support of Spitfire Audio, makers of inspiring sounds and scoring tools for film, in collaboration with the world’s best composers, musicians and engineers. More details available at spitfireaudio.com.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

COLIN STETSON
Colin Stetson was born and raised in Ann Arbor, spent a decade in San Francisco and Brooklyn honing his formidable talents as a horn player, eventually settling in Montreal in 2007. Over the years he has worked extensively, live and in studio, with a wide range of bands and musicians including Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, TV On The Radio, Feist, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Bill Laswell, Evan Parker, The Chemical Brothers, Animal Collective, Hamid Drake, LCD Soundsystem, The National, Angelique Kidjo, Fink, and David Gilmore. Meanwhile he has developed an utterly unique voice as a soloist, principally on saxophones and clarinets, his intense technical prowess matched by his exhilarating and emotionally gripping skills as a songwriter.

Stetson’s astounding physical engagement with his instruments (chiefly bass and alto saxophones) produces emotionally rich and polyphonic compositions that transcend expectations of what solo horn playing can sound like. Stemming from that approach and aesthetic, he has been contributing regularly to the world of film, TV, and game scoring over the past decade with such titles as Hereditary (2018), The First (2018), Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018), Color Out of Space (2019), Barkskins (2020), Mayday (2021), Among The Stars (2021), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), The Menu (2022), and Uzumaki (2023).

TIMOTHY WILLIAMS
Timothy Williams is a multi-award-winning composer best known for his work on Pearl, Finding You, Brightburn, and Get Out!

Williams’ films includes A24’s Pearl, co-scored with Tyler Bates, Gravitas’ The Swearing Jar, Roadside Attractions’ Finding You, Screen Gems’ Brightburn, directed by David Yarovesky, We Summon The Darkness, directed by Marc Meyers, which won best score award at ScreamfestLA; Wild Horses, directed by Robert Duvall; I.T., directed by John Moore, and Red Sky, for which Tim Williams was nominated Best Composer by Motion Picture Sound Editors and best score at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards.

Williams has written additional music for the Academy Award® and Golden Globe® winner Get Out!, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, Hobbs and Shaw, Deadpool 2, 300, Watchmen, Super, Sucker Punch, and The Spy Who Dumped Me.

Television work includes co-scoring AMC/Shudder Creepshow with Tyler Bates, Disney Junior’s Piney, the Fox pilot Richard Lovely, and additional music on Fox’s The Exorcist (S2), ABC’s Missing and Comedy Network’s Sym-Bionic Titan.

A graduate of the National Film and Television School, Williams has received two Motion Picture SE Golden Reel Award nominations (Red Sky), four Thea Award wins, 10 ASCAP Plus Awards and won best score at the 24FPS Festival (Butterfly Circus), best score at ScreamfestLA 2019 (We Summon The Darkness) and best soundtrack nomination at the HMMA Awards (Red Sky).

Tim has had multiple soundtracks released by Milan Records, Lakeshore Records, Varèse Sarabande and MovieScore Media.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

Happy 2024! Studio Soundtracks is celebrating the Best of 2023 with four special guest hosts who will explore their favorite music from media in 2024, their favorite of all time, and some of their own work from 2023. Plus, show host Chandler Poling adds his own picks to the list. Join Chandler alongside composers Pierre Charles, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Austin Wintory, and Carlos Rafael Rivera, as they recollect music from this past year and beyond.

Studio Soundtracks is made possible in part by the generous support of Spitfire Audio, makers of inspiring sounds and scoring tools for film, in collaboration with the world’s best composers, musicians and engineers. More details available at spitfireaudio.com.

TRACKLIST:
Ludwig Göransson from OPPENHEIMER – Can You Hear the Music?
John Williams from HARRY POTTER franchise – Hedwig’s Theme
Pierre Charles from STORY AVE – Kadir and Malik’s Theme
Ryuichi Sakamoto from MONSTER – Monster 2
Vangelis from BLADE RUNNER – Main Titles
Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch from ALL OF US STRANGERS – Diner
Borislav Slavov from BALDER’S GATE 3 – Down by the River
Peter McConnell from GRIM FANDANGO – Casino Calavera
Austin Wintory, Tripod, Montaigne from STRAY GODS – Adrift
Siddhartha Khosla from ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING – Cake
Jerry Goldsmith from THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY – End Titles
Carlos Rafael Rivera from LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY – Lessons in Chemistry
Christopher Bear & Daniel Rossen from PAST LIVES – See You
Mychael Danna from MONSOON WEDDING – Baraat
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Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

THE NEWTON BROTHERS

The Newton Brothers, Andy Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart, are acclaimed composers in film and TV, known for blending orchestration with electronics to create impactful scores. They’re currently bringing their innovative sound to Marvel’s “X-Men ’97,” promising a modern twist on the classic series. Their work on “Five Nights at Freddy’s” highlighted their skill in enhancing horror with music, contributing to its widespread success. Additionally, their scoring for Netflix’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” has been celebrated for its emotional depth, showcasing their versatility and influence in storytelling through music. As they approach “X-Men ’97,” the Newton Brothers’ proven track record suggests a compelling score that will engage both long-standing fans and new viewers.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

SON LUX
From the start, Son Lux has operated as something akin to a sonic test kitchen. The band strives to question deeply held assumptions about how music is made and reconstruct it from a molecular level. What began as a solo project for founder Ryan Lott expanded in 2014, thanks to a kinship with Ian Chang and Rafiq Bhatia too strong to ignore. The trio strengthened their chemistry and honed their collective intuition while creating, releasing, and touring six recordings, including Brighter Wounds (2018) and triple album Tomorrows (2021). The result is a carefully cultivated musical language rooted in curiosity and balancing opposites that largely eschews genre and structural conventions. And yet, the band remains audibly indebted to iconoclastic artists in soul, hip-hop, and experimental improvisation who themselves carved new paths forward. Distilling these varied influences, Son Lux searches for equilibrium of raw emotional intimacy and meticulous electronic constructions. Son Lux has most recently scored the new Daniels film for A24, Everything Everywhere All at Once. The full score album features new collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, Randy Newman, and Moses Sumney, among others.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

Four composers from four different films at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival break down a specific track of music linked to their film.  Learn about how these composers approach story and character and how the music changes with influences from the picture and director.  Composers featured in this special are Jordan Dykstra (20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL), Nainita Desai (THE DEEPEST BREATH), Patrick Jonsson (SCRAPPER), and Ryan Rumary (FOOD AND COUNTRY).  Both 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL and SCRAPPER went on to win Sundance Film Festival awards after this recording.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

SONYA BELOUSOVA & GIONA OSTINELLI

Billboard chart-topping artists Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli are the composers, songwriters & music producers behind Netflix’s highly anticipated ONE PIECE live action adaptation of the best-selling manga series in history. Belousova & Ostinelli continue to push barriers whilst retaining their trademark expansive sound with their epic soundtrack ranging from songs to virtuosic flamenco guitar, hip-hop to big band jazz funk fusion, folk to circus, rap to big epic swashbuckling orchestra, featuring pop sensation AURORA, guitar wunderkind MARCIN, and hip-hop artist FLAWLESS REAL TALK.

Belousova & Ostinelli have signed a record deal with Sony Music Masterworks. Two multi-genre album releases will feature songs written & produced by Belousova & Ostinelli with vocals by SERJ TANKIAN of System of a Down, DL of Bad Wolves, heavy metal soprano and former lead of Nightwish TARJA, American Idol finalist SOPHIA JAMES, guitar wunderkind MARCIN, and BELOUSOVA herself.

Belousova & Ostinelli created a sensation with their music from the mega-hit, THE WITCHER. With close to HALF A BILLION album streams, Belousova & Ostinelli’s soundtrack album charted on Billboard’s Top 10 Soundtrack Albums, Top 20 Current Albums and Top 20 Album Sales, and rose to No. 1 on iTunes in every major territory in the world. Belousova & Ostinelli’s hit single Toss a Coin to Your Witcher reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Song Sales chart and No. 8 on Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart and became a global phenomenon and a viral sensation.

Some of Belousova & Ostinelli’s previous scoring projects include NBC drama THE THING ABOUT PAM Oscar winner starring Renée Zellweger, Amazon’s THE ROMANOFFS featuring a star-studded cast: Christina Hendricks, Isabelle Huppert, Aaron Eckhart, Amanda Peet, and Diane Lane; Peacock’s SACRED LIES starring Juliette Lewis; THE MIST, Paramount’s adaptation of the Stephen King novel; among other series and films.

Studio Soundtracks is made possible in part by the generous support of Spitfire Audio, makers of inspiring sounds and scoring tools for film, in collaboration with the world’s best composers, musicians and engineers. More details available at spitfireaudio.com.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

On this month’s episode of Studio Soundtracks, host Chandler Poling is joined by guests Trygge Toven and Adam Blackstone.

TRYGGE TOVEN

Trygge Toven is a highly sought-after Emmy nominated music supervisor who has shaped the musical identity of some of Hollywood’s biggest films, including Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name! and Always Be My Maybe, Michael Bay’s 6 Underground, the Paramount box office hit Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie, and oversaw the music for the acclaimed Knives Out. Most recently, Trygge collaborated with Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy on Amazon’s critically acclaimed series Fallout. His exceptional work on the show has earned him an Emmy nomination for music supervision.

Toven also lends his services to a number of high-profile television series, including HBO’s critically acclaimed series, Westworld, Dwayne Johnson’s hit series, Young Rock, and Marvel series Loki, starring Tom Hiddleston. In addition to supervision, Toven served as music producer for The Marvels and on David O. Russell’s Amsterdam.

Trygge’s diverse background as both a music producer and recording engineer play an integral role in his approach; his time crafting music behind the scenes has put him in a unique position of understanding talent from a creator’s point of view. Toven excels in providing his insight and expertise on-set and in the studio to best align creative visions with inventive, enlightened solutions.

ADAM BLACKSTONE

On TV, radio or at a live concert at your favorite stadium, the Adam Blackstone sound has certainly permeated your eardrums. Blackstone is not only a multi-faceted bass player, musician, 6x Emmy nominated and winning Music Director and Grammy award winning writer, he is the musical mastermind behind the live shows of many of today’s biggest artists. This year Adam is nominated for the Outstanding Music Direction Category for 2023 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony.

He has served as the Musical Director for acts such as Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Janet Jackson, Alicia Keys, Maroon 5, recently cultivated the explosive, Emmy-nominated Super Bowl 56 Halftime Show featuring Dr Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dog & Mary J Blige. With each new endeavor, the artists he works with become family and fall in love with Blackstone’s easy demeanor and standard for excellence. Blackstone’s TV legacy continues to expand as Music Director and On-screen personality. His expertise has shaped today’s biggest shows including NBC’s “The Voice,” the Grammy Awards, numerous BET, VH1 and MTV specials and as the Music Director for the hit Fox show “The Masked Singer,” NBC’s “That’s My Jam” and the 94th Annual Academy Awards (Oscars).

Blackstone was born in Trenton, New Jersey and it was there that he began to hone his craft under the guise of his father, a jazz musician, who remains one of his greatest musical influences. It was in a church playing drums at the age of 6 that his father discovered he had rhythm and perfect pitch. Once his family moved to Willingboro, NJ which has never been short on talent, he picked up bass in high school and the rest is history.

After earning a scholarship to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, it didn’t take long for Blackstone to become engulfed in the soul music pulse that was flowing through the city at that time. Beginning as a session musician, shortly after his start, he was touring the world.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

Herdís Stefánsdóttir is a composer of music for multimedia, a songwriter, and an electronic musician. Her compositional endeavors — installations in museums, dance, theatre, and a successful electronic music duet she is a part of – are establishing her as an expansive artist.

Herdís Stefánsdóttir graduated with an M.A. degree in film scoring from New York University in 2017. Since graduation she has scored two feature films, an HBO series and a few short films. She won the 2022 Icelandic Music Award for her score to the FX series Y: the Last Man and was also nominated for her score in Ry Russo-Young’s MGM/Warner Bros. feature film The Sun Is Also a Star. Her other scoring work includes the HBO series We’re Here, and in 2022 she co-scored Apple TV+’s Essex Serpent with Dustin O’Halloran, starring Claire Daines and Tom Hiddleston.

Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist and composer with four acclaimed solo albums under his own name, and a member of the band A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Winner of a 2015 Emmy Award for his main title theme to Amazon’s comedy drama Transparent, he was also nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Critics’ Choice Award for his score to 2016’s Lion, written in collaboration with Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka). O’Halloran’s film career began when Sofia Coppola invited him to contribute to 2006’s Marie Antoinette, and since then he’s worked on multiple films and TV shows, including Drake Doremus’ Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, Like Crazy (2011), and Marc Turtletaub’s Puzzle (2018), where he collaborated with veteran Scandinavian chart-topper Ane Brun for the film’s closing song. In 2018, he scored George Tillman Jr.’s The Hate U Give and joined forces with Bryan Senti for Nick Murphy’s six-part Sky TV series, Save Me, while he and Bertelmann also reconvened that year for Netflix’s The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron. He and Bertelmann continue to collaborate, scoring the BBC’s 2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

Rachel Portman OBE – British Film Composer and first female composer to win an Academy Award in the category of Best Original Score for Emma (Douglas McGrath). She was also the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, which she received for the film, Bessie (Dee Rees). She has received two further Academy Nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat (Lasse Hallström), which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination as well as Bafta nominations for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and The Woman in Black. Other films include The Manchurian Candidate (Jonathan Demme), Oliver Twist (Roman Polanski), Beloved (Jonathan Demme), Benny and Joon (Jeremiah Chechik),  Life Is Sweet (Mike Leigh), Never Let Me Go (Mark Romanek), Grey Gardens (Michael Sucsy), The Legend of Bagger Vance (Robert Redford), The Duchess (Saul Dibb), One Day (Lone Scherfig), The Lake House (Alejandro Agresti), Mona Lisa Smile (Mike Newell), The Human Stain (Robert Benton), Their Finest (Lone Sherfig), Belle (Amma Asante), A Dog’s Purpose (Lasse Halstrom), Mimi and the Mountain Dragon for the BBC and Godmothered (Sharon Maguire). 

Her classical work includes an opera of Saint Exupery's Little Prince for Houston Grand Opera; The Water Diviner's Tale an oratorio for BBC Proms; Earth Song for the BBC singers; Ask The River, a collection of pieces for piano, violin and cello; The First Morning of The World for Joyce Di Donato's Eden. 

Studio Soundtracks celebrates International Women’s Day alongside six women working in music for film, television, and video games.  Chanda Dancy, Lili Haydn, Anna Drubich, Taura Stinson, Jessica Rose Weiss, and Dara Taylor all joined the program to talk about the work of six other female composers in support of their colleagues and to champion each other’s work.  Listen to the program to hear works by Yoko Kanno, Jocelyn Pook, Mica Levi, Laura Karpman, Anne Dudley, and Natalie Holt.  You can learn more about women working in film, television, and video games through The Alliance for Women Film Composers - an organization dedicated to advocating for women composers worldwide. www.theawfc.com

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

VINCE POPE

Vince Pope, a Royal Television Society and BAFTA-nominated composer has gained recognition for his unique blend of sophisticated neo-classical melodies and flawless electronics in noteworthy projects like Undercover, Black Mirror, Tigers Are Not Afraid, and the cult favorite, Misfits. In 2024, he is collaborating again with director Issa Lopez on HBO’s critically acclaimed True Detective: Night Country, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Streaming on HBO and MAX, this promises to be another highlight in Vince’s impressive career.

Vince secured a place in the hearts of audiences with his work on the beloved Misfits, earning him a BAFTA nomination and ultimately winning the RTS Award for Best Original Score. Further, he expanded his repertoire to include scoring feature films, such as My Angel, starring Timothy Spall and Brenda Blethyn.

Vince’s knack for creating captivating music led him to projects like Wallander, Undercover (BBC One), and the groundbreaking Netflix dark sci-fi series Black Mirror with episode ‘Be Right Back.’ His collaboration with Writer/Director Issa Lopez resulted in the psychological feature Tigers Are Not Afraid in 2017, showcasing the diversity of his talent. Continuing to accumulate accolades, Vince has contributed to projects like BBC’s My Name Is Leon, Sky’s Wolfe, Aisling Bea’s This Way Up, Amazon Prime’s Riches, and Channel 4’s flagship prison drama, Screw.

CHRIS BENSTEAD

Academy and BAFTA award winner Chris Benstead, is a British composer with a distinct and captivating voice. His remarkable career spans a multitude of noteworthy projects.

Collaborating extensively with director Guy Ritchie, Chris composed the score for the upcoming feature The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare starring Henry Cavil, and recently finished the much-anticipated NETFLIX series The Gentlemen, a follow up to the 2019 film that Chris also scored. His music for Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (starring Jake Gyllenhaal) and the Jason Statham thrillers Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and Wrath of Man were received to much critical acclaim.

Recent additions to his impressive portfolio include scoring the action thrillers Jericho Ridge and Rupture directed by Hamzah Jamjoom.

Chris received OSCAR and BAFTA awards for his work as re-recording mixer on Alfonso Cuaron’s masterpiece Gravity, starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

Chris is a versatile multi-instrumentalist and achieved a First-Class honours in music and sound recording from the University of Surrey. He was also named as Alumni of the year for his ground-breaking achievement in music mixing on ‘Gravity.’

TRACKLIST:

Vince Pope (feat. Tanya Tagaq) – The Bodies – True Detective: Night Country (Soundtrack from the HBO Original Series)
Chris Benstead – Stan’s Soiree – The Gentlemen (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
Chris Benstead – Susie Glass – The Gentlemen (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)
Vince Pope – Ashes – True Detective: Night Country (Soundtrack from the HBO Original Series)
Chris Benstead – Operation Postmaster – The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Vince Pope (feat. Tanya Tagaq) – Your Story Never Told – True Detective: Night Country (Soundtrack from the HBO Original Series)
Chris Benstead – Freddy Not Happy – The Gentlemen (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series)

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

ARIEL MARX

An Emmy- nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ariel Marx draws from many genres and often combines orchestral and rare instruments with electronics to create unique worlds of sound. Her scores have premiered in films at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, Tribeca, Woodstock, Criterion Channel, as well as films and shows on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, FX, HBO, Mubi, Discovery+ and more. She is a member of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, and is a Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab alumn.

Some of Ariel’s most recent projects include Disney+/ABC series A Small Light , Neon’s Sanctuary, UCP/Peacock’s A Friend of the Family, UCP/Hulu’s Candy (ranked number 3 in Indiewire’s Best TV scores of 2022), and FX/Hulu’s American Horror Stories. Her other works for film and television also include Utopia’s Shiva Baby, HBO’s The Tale, Shudder’s Birth/Rebirth, Magnolia’s Next Exit, Discovery+’s Rebel Hearts, Amazon’s Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer, FX/Hulu’s Children of the Underground, and Good Deed Entertainments To Dust, among others. As a solo artist, Ariel recently released her solo album Luthier with Node Records.

TONY MORALES

EMMY-nominated composer Tony Morales is known for his sweeping symphonic scores and textural cinematic sound for feature films and television. His orchestral compositions range from dramas and crime thrillers to documentaries, comedies, and animation.

His work includes countless hours of music for television on shows such as Amazon Prime’s Reacher, Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico on CNN and the NBC heist thriller The Endgame. His latest project is Netflix’s Fubar, a spy action comedy series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his live-action television debut.

Morales has composed music for several documentaries including the Eva Longoria directed feature documentary La Guerra Civil which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival which he was EMMY-nominated for “Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score)” this year. He also wrote the music for 30 For 30’s The Dominican Dream which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and tells the story of young immigrant Felipe Lopez, the “Dominican Michael Jordan”.

Morales earned a Primetime EMMY nomination for the mini-series Hatfields & McCoys (co-composed with John Debney). He is also known for his score on all three seasons of Disney’s Elena Of Avalor for which he received multiple Daytime EMMY nominations as well as an Annie Award nomination. For the music of Elena he mixed various Latin music genres, as well as instrumentation, with the traditional Disney orchestral sound. Tony has collaborated on several projects writing additional music for titles such as Iron Man 3, Fast Five, The Change-Up and Now You See Me.

Born in Southern California, Morales grew up all over the US and now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

KAY HANLEY

Kay Hanley is an Emmy and Peabody Award winning songwriter for TV animation, music copyright advocate/activist with Songwriters Of North America, singer of Boston-based rock band Letters To Cleo

Hanley began her career in music as the lead singer of Boston-based alternative rock band Letters to Cleo, releasing 3 acclaimed albums between 1990-2000, and spawning such hits as Awake and Here and Now.

In 2002, Hanley released her first full length solo album, Cherry Marmalade, produced by longtime Cleo producer, Mike Denneen at Q Division Studios in Boston. The record has recently been remastered for a double album 20th anniversary vinyl re-release.

Subsequent solo releases were The Babydoll EP (2005) and Weaponize (2009)

After a 16-year hiatus, Letters To Cleo reunited in 2016 to release new music and embark on several sold-out US tours. They are currently writing their 4th full length studio album.

In the late 90’s, Ms. Hanley began expanding her work as a singer and songwriter into the TV and film world, writing songs for WB’s animated series Generation O, providing the singing voice for Rachael Leigh Cook’s character Josie in Universal Pictures’ feature film Josie and the Pussycats and performing cover versions of Nick Lowe’s Cruel to be Kind and Cheap Trick’s I Want You To Want Me in Touchstone Pictures’ hit film, 10 Things I Hate About You.

Today, Ms. Hanley spends most of her time writing music for animated television, penning original songs for shows like Disney Junior’s hit series Vampirina and Doc McStuffins (for which she won a Peabody Award in 2014), Dreamworks’ Harvey Street Kids, WB/Cartoon Network’s DC Super Hero Girls and Netflix series, Ada Twist, Scientist and becoming a first time Emmy winner in 2022 for We The People. Her latest animated project is Kindergarten The Musical, which she developed with writing partners Michelle Lewis, Dan Petty, and Charlton Pettus. She serves as composer and executive producer for the series, which will debut in Fall 2024 on Disney Junior.

Ms. Hanley is co-founder of Songwriters Of North America (SONA), a non-profit advocacy organization that fights for the protection and value of songs and songwriters in the streaming music marketplace. As a result of her advocacy work, Hanley was chosen to represent songwriters on the Mechanical Licensing Collective, serving as vice-chair of the Unclaimed Royalties Oversight Committee.

TOM POLCE

Tom is a multi-instrumentalist/ composer/ producer and mixer. He has been working in the Los Angeles entertainment industry for over 15 years. First as Head of A&R/ Staff Producer for CBS Records and then transitioning to Staff Producer/ Composer for CBS Studios and currently fulfilling the same role at Paramount Global. Tom spends his time composing original music, producing and mixing. From scoring Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to writing musicals for the Star Trek franchise, Tom enjoys producing, composing and mixing a wide breadth of styles.

A Connecticut native before moving to Boston, Tom studied at NEC and Berklee College of music as a Jazz Performance Major and then became a fixture in the 90’s Boston music scene as a musician and producer, performing as a member in bands and solo artists such as Letters to Cleo, Senor Happy, Loveless, Bill Janovitz and many more.

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Our dublab DJs have united for a nonstop marathon of mixes and shows to carry you through the end of our 2023 membership drive.

This is a special episode by Chandler Poling, who hosts Studio Soundtracks every 1st Tuesday of the month, 9-10am.

This very special episode of Studio Soundtracks sashays its way into the theme of musicals – specially musicals in television. For years, TV programs often surprise their audiences by having an episode explore the musical genre and have their characters belt out tunes and change up the pace. From Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Scrubs, this has been a trick of the trade, however this show is dedicated to the challenge of embedding musical numbers into the reality of their shows. THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL explores a 60’s Industrial Musical inside the 5th episode of the final season – written by Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore – and GINNY & GEORGIA had the task of writing a full high school musical – written by Lili Haydn and Ben Bromfield – set within the drama of the show.

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THOMAS MIZER & CURTIS MOORE
Thomas Mizer and Curtis Moore are an accomplished songwriting and storytelling team whose work has appeared on screens and stages around the world. On television, they are best known as the composers for the hit Prime Video series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, resulting in two Emmy nominations and a 2022 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Song Written for TV. Recipients of the prestigious Fred Ebb Award “for excellence in musical theatre songwriting,” Mizer & Moore’s stage credits include the award-winning romantic mystery Triangle and upcoming musicals for Universal Theatrical Group and Michael Cassel Group.

LILI HAYDN
2x nominated GRAMMY® winner Lili Haydn is a composer, songwriter, singer, and violinist. Well known for her 6 critically acclaimed major label recordings as a solo artist, and her legendary collaborations with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, and George Clinton’s  P-Funk All Stars, Lili has taken her unique melodic and harmonic sensibility and emotionally penetrating musical voice into composing for film and television with 18 feature films/documentaries to her credit (including ANITA, The House That Jack Built, Sundance Selects’ DriverX), and the hit Netflix series Ginny & Georgia.

Lili is a BMI Award winner, won Best Music at the Milan International Film Festival, and is enjoying the recent releases of Oscar winner Freida Mock’s documentary RUTH: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words, the powerful Netflix documentary Split at the Root, and the record breaking success of Season 2 of Ginny & Georgia.

As the daughter of iconic feminist comedienne Lotus Weinstock, and a graduate of Brown University in political science, Lili is a lifelong activist, and believes music and stories have the power to heal and uplift…important now more than ever. 

BEN BROMFIELD
Ben Bromfield is a four-time BMI-award-winning composer for film, television, and video games out of Boston, MA. A lifelong jazz pianist, Ben graduated Berklee College of Music in 2010 and has lived in Los Angeles ever since. He is known for his score of the Dreamworks television series, Boss Baby: Back in Business, and the Netflix series, Ginny & Georgia. Ben is an expert in animation scoring, having composed the score for the Dreamworks Where’s Waldo? series and Oddballs on Netflix. In film, Ben has made his mark scoring such indies as BOOM!: A Film About The Sonics, a documentary telling the story of one of the most influential 60’s rock bands, The Salzburg Story, a romantic comedy which won ‘Best Feature Film’ at the California International Film Festival, and Borderland, an action/thriller featuring performances by Bruce Dern and Peter.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

CRIS VELASCO
Cris Velasco is one of the most sought-after composers working today in media, scoring some of the world’s biggest video game franchises including Fortnite, Resident Evil, Overwatch, Bloodborne, Darksiders, Dauntless, Assassin’s Creed, Warhammer, Borderlands, Mass Effect and God of War, and television series such as HULU’s Dimension 404 and Freakish. He is also a passionate art collector, curating unique dark and surrealist art exhibitions in LA and Chicago including ‘Wunderkammer’ celebrating eclectic and visionary artwork from Clive Barker, and ‘From The Depths’ showcasing paintings paying homage to H.P. Lovecraft. Cris’ music is regularly performed in symphony concerts worldwide and has received numerous accolades including “Outstanding Achievement In Original Composition” from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, IGN’s People’s Choice Award – Best Music, NBC News award for Best Video Game Music and Best Original Music nomination from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

NAINITA DESAI
BAFTA Breakthrough Brit & 2x Emmy-nominated composer Nainita Desai was described by Empire Magazine as one of the Top 5 Composers to Watch for in 2022 and was included in leading UK film critic Mark Kermode’s Top 3 Film Scores of 2021. Most recently, Nainita earned Emmy, HMMA, and ASCAP Composer Choice nominations for her score to 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible. Additionally, throughout her career she has received an RTS and World Soundtrack Award as well as 2x BIFA and Ivor Novello nominations.

Her other scores include Body Parts, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, the Oscar-nominated For Sama, Sundance and multi-award-winning feature The Reason I Jump, BBC drama series Unprecedented, BAFTA-nominated Netflix doc American Murder, The Tower (ITV), The Story Of Us, as well as Interactive film/video game Telling Lies. Upcoming drama series include Crossfire (BBC1), Funny Woman (SKY), Earthsounds (Apple TV+), Predators (Sky/Netflix) as well as video games The Teacher and Immortality.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

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 Philip Glass’ recording studio in New York City.

Dave is perhaps best known for his enduring creative relationship with one of Hollywood’s most respected figures – Vince Gilligan. Since the remarkable pilot episode of Breaking Bad in 2007, Dave has written the original music for all of Gilligan’s projects. He scored all 62 episodes of that groundbreaking series and created its iconic opening theme. Actor/Producer Bryan Cranston stated: “With his music, Dave Porter has created another character for Breaking Bad. Evocative and meaningful, Dave’s work is an essential part of the storytelling.” Since then, Dave has also been behind all of the original music for Breaking Bad’s equally acclaimed spin-off, Better Call Saul, and helped bring the Breaking Bad universe to the big screen with his original score to Gilligan’s feature film El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.

2024 will kick off a new chapter In Dave’s career — his first collaboration with Marvel Studios, Echo, will release on January 10th. The first project to be released under the new Marvel Spotlight banner, it will also be the first Marvel series with a TV-MA rating. “The Marvel team made me feel at home right away and have created a television series full of all of the hallmarks that inspire me — real stakes, emotions, consequences, and a world in which all of the characters are always learning and evolving,” said Porter on his collaboration with Marvel.

Dave has twice been awarded ASCAP’s Composer’s Choice Award for Best Television Composer — at the inaugural event for the award in 2013, and once again in 2017. He was also bestowed the 2019 Citation Award by his alma mater Sarah Lawrence College for his creative achievements.

DAVID FLEMING

David Fleming is an American composer who has written music for film and television. His signature sound is rooted in a synth-heavy design that subverts traditional scores and creates unique soundscapes for each project, including HBO’s The Last of Us, the Top 5 debut Amazon series, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, starring Donald Glover, and the upcoming Netflix epic fantasy feature Damsel, starring Millie Bobby Brown.

Blue Planet II marked the start of a collaborative relationship with David and Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, encompassing music for films such as Dune and Top Gun: Maverick.

David has also collaborated with popular recording artists such as Lady Gaga, Elton John, Pharrell Williams, Camilla Cabello and Beyoncé, with whom he worked on the Grammy-nominated song Spirit, for The Lion King soundtrack.

He is currently composing the score for Barry Levinson’s Alto Knights, starring Robert De Niro as well as the documentary Jim Henson: Idea Man, directed by Ron Howard. All three films are slated for 2024 releases.

TRACKLIST:

Dave Porter – The First Choctaw (ECHO)
David Fleming – Hi Hi (MR. & MRS. SMITH)
Dave Porter – Birth of a Villain (ECHO)
David Fleming – Kingdom of Aurea (DAMSEL)
David Fleming – Elodie’s Maze (DAMSEL)
Dave Porter – Kingpin (ECHO)

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

MARTIN PHIPPS

Coming from a musical background (he is Benjamin Britten’s godson), Martin read drama at Manchester University and fortunately for the acting profession, he decided to concentrate his energies on writing music. Since scoring 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 series of recent years. These include the BBC’s War and Peace, Hugo Blick’s The Honourable Woman, Peaky Blinders, Black Mirror and season 3 through 6 of the acclaimed Netflix series The Crown.

ANTHONY WILLIS

Anthony Willis is a BAFTA-nominated composer, known for his evocative scores for Emerald Fennel’s Oscar’s Winning Promising Young Woman Blumhouse’s Ai hit M3gan, and Fennell’s latest psychological thriller Saltburn from MGM/Amazon starring Barry Keoghan & Jacob Elordi. He was named one of Variety’s Top 10 Artisans to Watch in 2023 at the SCAD Savannah Film Festival. His recent projects also include Dreamworks’ Animation’s Annie award-winning How To Train Your Dragon: Homecoming, Seasons 6-8 of Epic’s video game sensation Fortnite, and Michelle Morgan’s comedy It Happened in L.A.

As a protege of Oscar-nominated composer John Powell and Henry Jackman, Anthony has also contributed additional music to many of Hollywood’s most beloved franchises including: How to Train your Dragon, Jumanji, Wreck it Ralph, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Pirates of the Caribbean and Rio.

Originally from London England, Anthony trained as a chorister of St. George’s chapel, Windsor Castle, UK before earning a First class honors degree in Music from the University of Bristol and a later graduate degree in Film Scoring from University of Southern California.

Recently Martin has scored Sir Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, Ed Perkins’ The Princess, and Amazon Studios’ series Solos starring Morgan Freeman. Other film credits include Woman In Gold (scored with Hans Zimmer), starring Ryan Reynolds and Helen Mirren, Fox Searchlight’s The Aftermath, starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Harry Brown and Brighton Rock.

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Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

TREVOR GURECKIS
Trevor Gureckis is an award-winning composer and producer based in NYC, with work that spans film, pop, and concert music genres. His music often draws on his classical and production background, fusing electronics and live instruments in unique ways.

As a film composer, his music often ranges from thrillers and horrors to dramas. A frequent collaborator of M. Night Shyamalan, Trevor has gone on to score four seasons of his hit Apple TV+ show “Servant” as well as recent feature film “Old” (Universal). Trevor’s score for “Servant” and the main title for “Hunters” (Amazon) awarded him a BMI Film, TV & Visual Media Award and he was nominated for Best Original Horror Film Score for “Old” at the 2021 HMMA Awards. Other notable works include John Crowley’s epic drama “The Goldfinch” (Warner Bros. Pictures), Neil Burger’s Sci-fi thriller “Voyagers” (Lionsgate), and Henry Jacobson’s psychological horror film “Bloodline” (Blumhouse).

Gureckis began work on his first AAA game project in 2022: the highly anticipated remake of the survival horror classic “Dead Space” by EA and Motive Studios. “Dead Space” will be released on next gen. consoles and PC in January 2023.

While Trevor excels at composing for film, his musical work extends far beyond. He produced the electro-pop band My Great Ghost, which is featured on Beck’s Philip Glass remix album “Rework_”. In 2019, Trevor’s solo album of instrumental and electronic music entitled “Corte” was released on Supertrain Records.

Trevor is co-founder and executive creative director of Found Objects, a NYC based artist collective and production company.

GARRY SCHYMAN
BAFTA-winning composer Garry Schyman is one of the world’s most celebrated voices in video game music as evidenced by his award-winning scores to the BioShock game series, as well as dozens of hit games, films, and television productions. Schyman has most notably given the universe of BioShock (including BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite) its musical identity, scoring the hugely successful game series with a blend of haunting beauty and terrifying unease. He paid playful homage to ’50s sci-fi with his score for the 2005 game Destroy All Humans! (followed by two sequels), accelerated the heartbeat in action games like Resistance: Retribution and Dante’s Inferno, and gave a nod to the hypnotic style of Bernard Herrmann in the mystery game Voyeur. He has been in the fantasy world of Tolkien for the adventure game Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its sequel Middle-earth: Shadow of War.

Schyman’s film and television credits span every genre, including classic series like The A-Team and Magnum, P.I., stormy action (Tornado!), thrillers (Horseplayer, starring Brad Dourif), and family horror (Spooky House, starring Ben Kingsley) and more recently Itsy Bitsy.  Among his most recent work is the Square Enix game Forspoken which will be released in January of 2023.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

LUCY BRIGHT:
Lucy Bright started out at Mute Records working with artists such as Nick Cave and Depeche Mode, before moving to Warner Classics for six years and then leaving to manage composer Michael Nyman. She joined the film and TV department of publisher Music Sales (now Wise Music) in 2008 and worked there for a decade. In 2020 she launched her own music publishing company, Bright Notion Music, signing the composers like Anne Nikitin, Jed Kurzel and Tamar-kali Brown.

Lucy has supervised some of the most critically-acclaimed British films and TV shows in recent years including The Unloved, The Arbor, Slow West, Southcliffe, McMafia, This is England ‘90, Daphne, The Virtues, The Nest, Life After Life and BAFTA-winning short The Swimmer.

Most recently, she has worked on Charlotte Wells’ directorial debut AFTERSUN and Todd Field’s TÁR, set within the world of classical music in which Cate Blanchett plays the first female conductor of a German orchestra.

VOLKER BERTELMANN:
Volker Bertelmann is an internationally acclaimed pianist, composer and experimental musician. His score for Garth Davis’ Oscar-nominated film Lion, which he composed in collaboration with Dustin O’Halloran, and was nominated for multiple awards, including the 2016 Oscar for Best Original Score, the 2016 Golden Globes for Best Original Score, and Best Film Music at the 2016 British Academy Film Awards, or BAFTAs. He has provided music for several leading films and television series, including the score for Patrick Melrose, Showtime’s Emmy-and BAFTA nominated mini-series, and for Gunpowder, the HBO mini-series starring Kit Harrington, and the 2020 film Ammonite, co-composed with O’Halloran, which received a spot on the Academy Awards short list for Best Original Score.

In 2022, he scored All Quiet on the Western Front for Netflix, the official Oscar-entry for Germany, and War Sailor, both of which were official selections at the Toronto International Film Festival.

A uniquely innovative pianist, who in his solo work goes by the name Hauschka, Bertelmann has worked with, among others. the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra, where he was the artist in residence, and the Grammy-winning violinist Hilary Hahn. In 2018, he accepted an invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

Ever since meeting in Israel during the 2016 Reality Music conference, Roahn Hylton & Jacob Yoffee have been working together on projects for record labels, film, television and advertising. Currently, they are scoring ‘The Wonder Years’ on ABC for producers Saladin Patterson, & Lee Daniels, and the upcoming ‘Vampire Academy’ series created/produced by Julie Plec at NBCUniversal.

The duo’s credits also include Robert Downey, Jr.’s ‘Age of A.I.’ series, Kevin Hart’s ‘Don’t F**k This Up’ for Netflix and Amazon’s highly acclaimed 'Free Meek' series, produced by Jay-Z & Meek Mill.

Often fusing pop, hip-hop and film score they’ve created soundtracks for several music driven projects, such as the Showtime Documentary ‘The Show’ about The Weeknd’s Pepsi Half-time Show for the 2020 Superbowl and their song-heavy pop-score for YouTube’s 'Sherwood,' a dystopic animated sci-fi series that re-imagines the Robin Hood tale.

Their first episodic collaboration drew on jazz & hip-hop for Lebron James’ ‘Best Shot’. Their score, which featured both songs & instrumental pieces, was released by Warner Bros. on the WaterTower Music label.

In the advertising and branding world, they’ve worked on campaigns for the G.A.P., the North Face, and others. Janelle Monae was a featured artist on their 2017 G.A.P. campaign, and they recently produced the soundtrack for 50 Cent’s Power Universe official logo.

Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

STEPHANIE ECONOMOU
Grammy-nominated Stephanie Economou is a composer and violinist known for her scores for the Netflix TV series “Jupiter’s Legacy,” “The Chair,” “Manhunt: Deadly Games,” and the LucasFilm/Disney+ documentary feature, “More Than Robots.” She is also the composer of the Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla DLCs “The Siege of Paris” and “Dawn of Ragnarök,” the latter of which earned her a 2023 Grammy nomination in the new “Best Score for Video Games and Other Interactive Media” category.

Stephanie is a long-time collaborator of Golden Globe-nominated composer, Harry Gregson-Williams, and has composed additional music on scores such as “Mulan,” “The Meg,” “The Equalizer 2,” “Penguins,” “The Martian,” “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” and “Live By Night.”

AUSTIN WINTORY
Two-time Grammy-nominated and two-time BAFTA-winning composer Austin Wintory has had a career straddling film, video games and the stage. He has scored over 50 features, including several Sundance hits (Grace, Captain Abu Raed), and over 30 games, netting him 7 BAFTA nominations, 2 wins of the peer-voted ASCAP Composer’s Choice Awards, and a slew of other industry accolades.

His work, ranging from intimate indies like JOURNEY to massive blockbusters like ALIENS: FIRETEAM ELITE and ASSASSIN’S CREED, is often noted for its unique perspective and unusual approach. Austin’s scores frequently employ the use of experimental ensembles and recording techniques, merged with distinctive solo musicians from around the globe. Many of his game scores have enjoyed success in concert upon release, with performances all over the world including a recent presentation of his music before an audience of nearly 15,000 in Krakow, Poland and performance by the Royal Philharmonic at Royal Albert Hall in London as part of the first-ever BBC Gaming Proms concert. Austin’s most recent feature films include BULLET HEAD starring Adrien Brody and John Malkovich, Burt Reynolds’ final film, THE LAST MOVIE STAR, Ross McCall’s acclaimed prison drama A VIOLENT MAN, and Netflix’s limited series THAI CAVE RESCUE.