Category: Composer Profile

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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Interview with David Julyan

The “Descent” composer scores the ultimate horror of manipulation

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Interview with Javier Navarrete

The Spanish composer fights with Hollywood’s Greek Gods to take on “The Wrath of the Titans”

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Interview with Jeff Grace

One of horror scoring’s creepiest composers scares up some ghosts with “The Innkeepers”

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Interview with Dickon Hinchliffe

The English alt. rock leader of Tindersticks puts his eclectic spin on scoring as he rises in the Hollywood mainstream with “Winter’s Bone” and “Rampart”

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Interview With Howard Shore

From “Hugo”’s magic of the movies to the delicate angst of “Dangerous”’ psychotherapy and a live “Lord of the Rings” performance, ‘tis the season for Howard Shore

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Interview With Conrad Pope

An unsung star of film scoring finally gets the Hollywood spotlight while spending “My Week With Marilyn”

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Jane Antonia Cornish

Hearing the emotional light of FIREFLIES IN THE GARDEN

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Larry Groupé

Taking a different shot at another score to STRAW DOGS

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Interview With Composer Roque Baños

One of Spain’s (and soon Hollywood’s) best composers gives us even more reason to fear clowns with THE LAST CIRCUS

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‘Piers Morgan Tonight’ Composers Anthony James & Yiorgos Bellapaisiotis

Strings with an Electro-Pop Groove for CNN’s ‘Piers Morgan Tonight’ show Theme

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Composer Peter Calandra and the feature film “Rise”

We profile composer and keyboard player Peter Calandra and his latest project “Rise”

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