Composer Profile – Film Music Institute

12May2022

Interview with Karl Frid

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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Finding orgasmically ironic “Pleasure” in musically merging the sacred and the profane

25Mar2022

Interview with Son Lux

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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Crafting an insanely striking collision of musical multiverses for “Everything, Everywhere All at Once”

09Feb2022

Interview with Joseph Shirley

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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For 42 years, the sound of live-action “Star Wars” was the sweeping, symphonic language of John Williams, old school music for a long time ago in a melodic galaxy far, far away. It was a template impressively followed by Michael Giacchino and John Powell on the spin-offs of “Rogue One” and “Solo,” but it took Ludwig […]

19Nov2021

Interview with Kris Bowers

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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Making the musically winning serves for the sister tennis icons brought up by “King Richard”

22Oct2021

Interview with Ben Lovett

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current), Uncategorized
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Scoring down a retro-paranoia rabbit hole to find the source of a “Broadcast Signal Intrusion”

17Sep2021

Interview with Roger Suen

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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A composer powerfully returns home to Justin Chon’s land of social relevancy for “Blue Bayou”

20Aug2021

Interview with Joseph Vitarelli

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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Waving a poignant score for a father’s life of crime and a desperate daughter in Sean Penn’s “Flag Day”

15Jul2021

Interview with Starr Parodi

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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Musically painting for live, living pictures at the enduring Pageant of the Masters

04Jun2021

Interview with Amie Doherty

Taking a sweeping, girl power orchestral ride with “Spirit Untamed”

05Mar2021

Interview with Jermaine Stegall

A new scoring prince gets his Hollywood coronation by taking Zamunda travel arrangements to a vibrantly funny new musical future

12Feb2021

Interview with Emile Mosseri

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current)
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Of the new crop of composers to spring from an indie sensibility and all of the fertile, innovative ideas that come with it, perhaps no musician has captured the idea of what it is to find an outsider’s American measure of success than Emile Mosseri. Hailing from Egyptian roots, Mosseri has poetically captured themes of […]

18Dec2020

Interview with Branford Marsalis

By Daniel Schweiger
Composer Profile, Film Music Magazine (Current), Uncategorized
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There’s often no pressure cooker like a recording studio where the clock is running, and the egos are flaring. Add to that the rage of racial injustice and the diva behavior of an ego that’s earned and it’s a session ready for an eruption. The tortuous, yet tuneful process of getting that song sung opens […]