Category: Scoring Sessions

Interview with Clint Mansell

Painting a picture of an artistically possessed icon with “Loving Vincent”

Read More

Interview with Brian Reitzell

Paying eclectic and inventive musical worship to Neil Gaiman’s “American Gods”

Read More

Interview with Rupert Gregson-Williams

Scoring with strength and heart for DC’s Amazonian Avenger with the epic music origin story of “Wonder Woman”

Read More

Interview with Mandy Hoffman

Bringing a lushly romantic French touch to the American indie cheaters of “The Lovers”

Read More

Interview with Michael Abels

Hearing ethnically satirical horror while breaking through with “Get Out”

Read More

Interview with Andrew Lockington

Casting a soaring, romantic spell for an earthbound starboy

Read More

Interview with Fernando Velazquez

Hearing the moving music of loss and fear when “A Monster Calls”

Read More

Interview with Lesley Barber

Creating the classical songs of sadness that flow through “Manchester by the Sea”

Read More

Interview with Mark Isham

Calculating an action hero with a uniquely special set of musical skills for “The Accountant”

Read More

Interview with Christopher Lennertz

Slaying food isn’t musical kid’s stuff in “Sausage Party”

Read More

Interview with Alex Somers

Finding the Zen of nature versus nurture with “Captain Fantastic”

Read More

Interview with Cliff Martinez

Continuing a twisted collaboration with Nicolas Winding Refn as they take a retro-groovy catwalk to hell with “The Neon Demon”

Read More

Interview with The Blair Brothers

A sibling-scoring band creates killer tension within the “Green Room”

Read More

Interview with Mark Korven

Conjuring a devil’s coven for “The Witch”

Read More

Interview with George Fenton

Parking with the humorously waltzing madness of “The Lady in the Van”

Read More

Interview with Roque Baños

Stepping into a wider Hollywood ocean to tell a whale of a tragic tale “In the Heart of the Sea”

Read More

Interview with Michael Brook

An immigrant composer with a vibe for the ethnic makes an Irish woman feel at home in “Brooklyn”

Read More

Interview with Pedro Bromfman

A Brazilian composer often in the musical company of drug runners takes on the Colombian cocaine saga of Pablo Escobar for Netflix’s “Narcos”

Read More

Interview with Christophe Beck

Getting small with a big, heroically bright and brash score for “Ant-Man”

Read More

Interview with Andrew Lockington

For a composer with increasingly epic scores, “San Andreas” is truly The Big One

Read More

Interview with Benjamin Wallfisch

Exploring elegiac musical frontiers with “Desert Dancer” and “Bhopal: A Prayer for Rain”

Read More

Interview with John Debney

A busier-than-ever composer with a flair for fantasy surfaces with the biggest “SpongeBob” movie yet, then intimately hammers in “The Cobbler’s” quirky Klezmer-isms along with Devotchka’s Nick Urata

Read More

Interview with Jason Moran

A jazzman marches with MLK for a powerful score that stands up to “Selma’s” oppression

Read More

Interview with Justin Hurwitz and Tim Simonec

Two composers keep a mean jazz beat for a hopeful drummer and a soul-crushing teacher from hell in the stunning “Whiplash”

Read More

Interview with Harry Gregson-Willams

Returning with a bang for filmmaker Antoine Fuqua and star Denzel Washington as a composer who put new-school action on the map for a revitalized “Equalizer”

Read More

Interview with Max Richter

A composer on the creative edge of film scoring gets seriously animated alongside his “Waltz With Bashir” director Ari Folman

Read More

Interview with Marco Beltrami

Taking a first class musical seat for a doom-driven train ride through an icy apocalypse – in any filmmaker’s language

Read More

Interview with Andrew Hewitt

A composer hears “Double” with his delightfully surreal musical take on Dostoevsky

Read More

Interview with Stephen Endelman

Stealing musical heart, and a great theme, for a true-life mob dramedy that’s stranger than fiction

Read More

Interview with Angelo Badalamenti

Fighting an epic musical battle for “Stalingrad’s” soul

Read More