composer

FILM SCORES / AUDIO DRAMAS / LIBRARY / TRAILERs / INSTRUMENTALS / MAINSTREAM

MUSIC DISTRIBUTOR

music For Production Libraries & Trailers

Composing solo. Working with frequent collaborators. Together or alone, I hit every genre from 19th century flair to modern beats and sometimes invite others to join me on the journey.

Work with me on your next film score, commercial music, trailer or TV/film production library music. Find my registered original works on Songview (BMI), SACEM (France) and PRS (UK).

Music is for everyone

Music is for everyone, regardless of gender, orientation, ethnicity, nationality, or economic background. Anyone, regardless of education, can be a composer, singer, rapper, or producer in the film industry. Music doesn’t have an acting casting call look. A film score composer can, and should, look like anyone. By imposing unfair and strict rules, we prevent talented artists from pursuing music careers, discouraging them from joining a supportive community and sharing their amazing musical achievements with the world.

Music should be inclusive, not exclusive. It's great when talented students from prestigious music programs go on to successful careers. But it's important to support those who are self taught or didn't have the chance to study music in educational environments. I want to inspire young people to believe that with determination and effort, anyone can pursue a career in music, regardless of their background. I studied flute as a younger person, and people doubted me in the past because my university degree was not in music composition or the performing arts. The inequality that people experience is a tough challenge far worse than mine was, and I will do everything possible to make things better for everyone.

Products & People I love

UJAM

A company co-founded by Peter Gorges, Hans Zimmer, and Pharrell Williams is always a safe bet. UJAM offers discounts for both students and disabled musicians affiliated with the Able Artist Foundation. The best part is that you don't need any formal music education to get started. And if you do have experience, that's even better!

Products like the Symphonic Elements series (BRAASS, STRIIIINGS, and DRUMS) bring you the same instrument samples from Mr. Zimmer’s personal composing library for film scoring, hip hop, pop or country music, with the sounds all produced beautifully by Boris Salchow. Or try Virtual Guitarist CARBON for everything from creating No Doubt style music to a slick action film score. From rock music to K-pop to film scoring, UJAM offers something for everyone making every genre. The brand is my fav affordable product collection for its versatility and great quality for the prices. Professional composers and music producers frequently use it on mainstream music and film scores you have heard, and I have convinced some of them through seeing what it’s done for me! UJAM is equally great for someone just starting out who can mix and match it with the free instruments in your DAW and a professional musician who owns everything else on the market needing something wonderful. When I get complimented on my professional work and asked about what I am using, people are always surprised at how little these great products cost!

Spitfire Audio

Their products range from affordable to expensive, a simple percussion kit to top tier collaborations with people like Mr. Zimmer himself, his company Bleeding Fingers, Charlie Clouser and other composers who are all respectable people deserving of every ounce of success they have. When you purchase a higher priced item from Spitfire Audio, you will use that product often in your career from homework to professional level blockbuster scores. This company is the only luxury price point brand I have the faith in saying, “This will change your life. Build credits using Spitfire Audio products. You will use more Spitfire Audio on jobs you book from those credits, coming full circle.” The staff are very professional and friendly when you correspond with them. They listen to feedback from customers on their branding and new products. Like a synth hybrid orchestra? You can get that action movie sound from their composer collabs. Want a John Williams traditionalist style? BBC Orchestra can do it. All of their samples are recorded in the same professional halls from huge Hollywood Oscar-winning/nominated scores and classical performances. Every product sale gives a royalty to its musicians and designers, and the company pays fair wages to all of its recording session musicians. Student and teachers get educational discounts.

Cloudbounce

Now that you've created amazing music using UJAM, it's time to perfect it! The CloudBounce app offers affordable Scandinavian-designed tools. With a few clicks on your laptop, you quickly master anything in seconds. You may have heard music mastered by CloudBounce in movies, TV shows, radio songs, and commercials. Now it's your chance to have the music industry's hidden gem.

Download the CloudBounce app

Plugin Boutique

These people have affordable products, really great secret sales throughout the year you have to monitor the website for, the nicest people working on their staff, great customer service and every wonderful thing you could ever say. Yes, I am affiliated with promoting them, but I was a fan of the store long before I got involved. Some of their composing and mainstream music genre products are more known brands and others are very niche small businesses with secret goodies, things you’ll have that make a little tweak and take you to a cool film score or hit song. Their inventory is endless.

U-HE

Do you love synths? German company U-He is great at responding to customers promptly and has products you have heard on big film scores and songs. Synths are their specialty. It’s all they do, the synth version of going to Nobu for sushi.

able artist foundation

NAAF serves creative adults with disabilities who are low-income. Our mission is two-fold: provide access to purchase music hardware and software products at a substantial discount that are provided by our many generous international partners, and to develop opportunities to advance music production fluency and work opportunities.

Able Artist Foundation (AAF) was created by film composer and disability rights activist, Stephen Letnes who is legally blind (RP).

AbleArtist.org

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Directing first interested me when I was 11 because I could have total control of the scoring against the plots and visuals. We're used to directors who sometimes dabble in music. I wanted to be the best at composing as my primary career: a composer who directs amazing movies like Peter Jackson and James Cameron, my favorite writer-directors.

Acting was something people always told me to do as a backhanded compliment, always as if it were easy. I never pursued it seriously but for sporadic auditions people took me on because it felt like people were ignoring my goals of being a brilliant composer. As I began acting in my own projects, it became something I wanted to do again and again. It felt good because it was my choice I made for myself, not the world deciding for me.

In 2018, I released my first animated short film, Pizza Delivery. The rest is history.

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