Category: Composer Profile

Interview with Jed Kurzel

An Australian eccentrist takes a waltzing, fish out of water approach to America’s “Slow West”

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Interview with Jason Graves

The rampaging “Dead Space” composer now gives elegantly mournful purpose to the werewolf-battling videogame knights of “The Order: 1886”

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Interview with Geoff Zanelli

Getting an aristocratic 60s swing on with Mark Ronson for “Mortdecai’s” art-snatching caper adventure

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Interview with Alexandre Desplat

A year in review for a remarkably busy composer, who just might yet capture an Oscar in 2014 with a salvo of war-centric scores that end with “Unbroken”

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Interview with Zacarias M. de la Riva

Putting the Holy Ghost in the machines of “Automata”

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Interview with Kathryn Bostic

A composer offers some notes to “Dear White People”

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Interview with Imran Ahmad

A composer finds Indian soul amidst his native country’s zombie apocalypse

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Interview with Jeff Russo

Can a composer find his own icily ironic TV trail from a famed Carter Burwell film score? You betcha!

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Interview with Christophe Beck

The “Frozen” composer never says die when it comes to taking on a whole new world of sci-fi thrills with “Edge of Tomorrow”

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Interview with The Newton Brothers

Two musical siblings reflect the scares of a brother and sister attempting to destroy the possessed mirror of “Oculus”

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Interview with Nathan Furst

Making his major push into action scoring pole position with “Need for Speed”

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Interview with Frank Ilfman

An Israeli composer devilishly teaches us to playfully fear the “Big Bad Wolves”

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Interview with Ilan Eshkeri

Suiting up for the heroic sound of “47 Ronin” and the emotionally constricted “Invisible Woman”

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Audio: On the Score with Fans of Film Music Four, Part One & Two

Two special editions of On the Score brings you to the composer-filled panels of FANS OF FILM MUSIC 4

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Audio: On the Score with Fans of Film Music Four, Part Two

A special podcast of On the Score attends the second panel of Fans of Family Music 4, as composer agent Richard Kraft moderates the event’s second panel with Sara Andon, John Altman, Christophe Beck, Randy Edelman, Christopher Lennertz, Joseph LoDuca and Robert Townson

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Audio: On the Score with Fans of Film Music Four, Part One

A special podcast of On the Score attends Fans of Family Music 4, as film music journalist Daniel Schweiger moderates the event’s first panel with Nathan Bar, Jeff Beal, Cliff Eidelman, Reinhold Heil, Harry Manfredini, Cliff Martinez and Mark McKenzie

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Interview with Joseph Bishara

One of horror scoring’s most disturbing acolytes flings himself again into The Further with “Insidious: Chapter 2”

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Interview with Rob Simonsen

A Gen X composer knows his direction with alternative young adult scoring for “The Spectacular Now” and “The Way Way Back”

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Interview with Javier Navarrete

Give a classical bite to the vampiric female empowerment in “Byzantium”

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Interview with Brian Reitzell

Scoring inside the mind of serial killers for the television couch trip of “Hannibal”

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Peter Calandra Scores ESPN’s ‘Pat XO’ – Showing at 2013 Tribeca Film Fest

Peter Calandra, New York City-based composer has recently scored ESPN’s ‘Pat XO’ in which a special screening will occur at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Sunday 4/21 and Saturday 4/27

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Interview with Alex Heffes

Impactfully playing love, and the postwar culture clash of “Emperor”

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Interview with Atli Örvarsson

A witch-hunting the Icelandic composer goes with Hansel and Gretel

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Interview with Fernando Velázquez

Nothing is “Impossible” for this Spanish composer when playing emotion amidst catastrophe for a true-life disaster film

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Interview with Thomas Newman

Nobody does it better when straddling experimental and mainstream scoring in Hollywood. Now Thomas Newman talks about getting his big action score shot for “Skyfall”

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Interview with Nathaniel Méchaly

The French composer is back in Luc and Liam’s company with a very special set of action scoring skills for scoring “Taken 2”

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Interview with Marcelo Zarvos

A rising composer of quality dramas hears the lush, lying sound of “The Words”

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Interview With Anton Sanko

An indie composer finds a new world of orchestral horror after opening a Dybbuk Box

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Interview with “Savage”‘s Adam Peters

An ex-Bunnyman hops between two alt. score borders in his feature scoring debut for Olvier’s Stone’s return to savage form

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Interview with Alan Silvestri

A composer who excells in larger-than-life heroism assembles his powers to play Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

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