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The Soundtrack / Film Score Composer Thread

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Hi all

I'm beginning the process of searching for a composer for an upcoming feature film. I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread with suggestions of composers you have worked with or know about. It would also be great to share links to their work and maybe also comment on the whole process of collaboration. If you are a composer feel free to post links to your work. I look forward to all your recommendations.
 
LIST OF FILM SCORE COMPOSERS
(A work in progress)

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HERMAN WITCAM (Amsterdam)
http://www.herman-witkam.com

IMDB Credits: 104
Documentary: My Amityville Horror

From IMDB: Herman Witkam is one of the new breed of cinematic composers. Not only does he write all the notes but he also performs many of the instruments heard in his scores. Working as a film composer since 2005, Herman Witkam has already established a long list of credits, including composing for over 100 features, shorts, television series, TV and radio ads, games, corporate films, events and theater projects.

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RICHARD HARVEY (Atlanta)
http://www.richardharvey.net/films/Audio.html

IMDB Credits: 83
Feature: The Da Vinci Code (Contributing)

As a composer of film and television music, Richard has been recognized with both international and British Academy Awards and four Ivor Novello nominations. Working with celebrated composer Maurice Jarre in the mid-1970s fuelled Richard's rich career as a sought-after film composer. He has scored more than 70 television and film projects, from British television series, documentaries and feature-length TV films, to major Hollywood movies. He contributed the much-loved Kyrie for the Magdalene to Hans Zimmer's score for the smash hit "The Da Vinci Code" (2006).

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ROB GOKEE (Los Angeles)
http://robgokee.com

IMDB Credits: 76
TV Series: The New Adventures of Peter and Wendy

Rob has scored 12 feature films, over 100 short films, and three dozen different TV series & pilots. He just finished horror features “Love in the Time of Monsters” & “Hazard Jack,” and is currently scoring the feature “Alice & the Monster” – a romantic comedy.

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KYLE J. WITTLIN (Los Angeles)
http://www.kylewittlin.com/2009/10/music.html

IMDB Credits: 73
TV Series: The Voice

From his Site: Kyle Wittlin is a Hollywood-based composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist whose music has been featured in film, tv, commercial, and multimedia platforms across the globe.

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VINCENT GILLIOZ (Los Angeles)
http://www.vincentgillioz.com/music/generaldemo/index.html

IMDB Credits: 73
Feature: Dark Horse

From his Site: I have scored 35 features to date and my soundtracks garnered 9 best score awards. I was also selected for the Sundance Institute Composers Lab, and during my studies I received the highest distinctions from both the Berklee College of Music in Boston and the Geneva Conservatory in Europe.

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ASH GIBSON GREIG (Australia)
http://www.ashgibsongreig.com.au/Feature_Films.html

IMDB Credits: 54
Documentary Series: The War That Changed Us

From his Site: Ash’s film work includes award-winning short films such as Iron Bird, Professor Pebbles, The Fan, and Tinglewood. Ash has also composed for four independent features (The Actress, Plum Role, No Through Road and Congoro) and Big Momma’s Boy.

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DAVID FREDERICK (New Hampshire)
http://www.dfmusicgroup.com/#!listen/c1z6p

IMDB Credits: 52
TV Series: Pretty Little Liars (1 Episode)

From IMDB: David Frederick is an Emmy-nominated composer who, with years of award-winning work as a composer, continues to inspire audiences through his music and creativity.

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John Ottman (Los Angeles)
http://www.johnottman.com/work

IMDB Credits: 49
Features: Usual Suspects / Non-Stop

From his Site: John Ottman holds dual distinctions as a leading film composer and an award winning film editor. Ottman has often completed both monumental tasks on the same films. Such remarkable double duties have included The Usual Suspects, X-Men 2, Superman Returns, Valkyrie, and Jack the Giant Killer. He has also held producer roles on several of these films, as well as directing, editing and scoring Urban Legends 2.

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JEROME LEROY (Los Angeles)
http://www.jeromeleroy.com/music

IMDB Credits: 38
TV Feature: Alone Yet Not Alone

From his Site: Jerome Leroy is a film composer who has written original music for more than twenty feature films, TV movies, and short films. He recently wrote music for the feature film Alone Yet Not Alone, for Lifetime Network’s remake of Steel Magnolias, and for the animated short film Brother; in early 2012, he also worked as music programmer on Lionsgate’s tentpole movie The Hunger Games, released in March 2012 to critical and public acclaim.

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Brian Mann (Los Angeles)
http://postscoremusic.com/moremusic.htm

IMDB Credits: 33
TV Feature: The Bet

From his Site: Brian has won a number of Gold and Platinum Records, Sunny, Ady, Belden and Silver and Golden Mic awards. His 1990 Narada release, "Café du Soleil" received a lot of critical acclaim and is still played worldwide. But besides all that, Brian, despite being so wickedly talented and good looking, is really a pretty nice guy, has three grown kids, who play baseball, play in bands, do web sites, better than this one, edit and produce shows like "The Bachelor", work for Directors like David Lynch and Alexander Payne, and throw the javelin.

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ANDREW EDWARDS (Chicago)
http://bluepolicebox.com

IMDB Credits: 33
Feature: Scary Normal

From his Site: Andrew Edwards is a Chicago-based film and theatre composer. He is the owner of the Blue Police Box Music studio on Chicago’s north side, and an adjunct professor of film music in Columbia College Chicago’s MFA Music Composition for the Screen program. As a film composer, Drew has scored a number of short and feature length films and documentaries, including: A Message from the East (2009), Fate Accompli (2012), Bailout (2012), and the indie coming-of-age film, Scary Normal (2013).

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DANIEL IANNANTUONO (Los Angeles)
http://www.danieliannantuono.com

IMDB Credits: 29
TV Show: The Girls Next Door

From his Site: I can write you the most expressive music in any style you need. I have a solid musical education, 12 years experience in film scoring with loads of credits.

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HANAN TOWNSHEND (Austin)
http://www.hanantownshend.com/listen/

IMDB Credits: 27
Feature: To The Wonder

Hanan has worked with fellow ResUser Brandon Fowler on his film Hybrid Vigor. He has also scored Terrance Malik’s film “To The Wonder.”

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Eric Goetz (Seattle)
http://ericgoetz.com/film

IMDB Credits: 26
Feature: Bunyip

From his Site: With dozens of credits in feature films, shorts and video games, Eric Goetz has quickly established himself as a master of creative melodic music that supports character driven narratives. From period genre films, to science fiction adventure games, to modern contemporary dramas, Eric finds the mood of the piece and gives it life.

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LASSE ELKJAER (Denmark)
http://www.lasseelkjaer.dk/index.php/music

IMDB Credits: 25
Feature: ---

As a composer for the screen, I'm a part of the aspiring film underground in Denmark. I'm proud to say, that the first film i ever scored, won an audience award at a film festival, and my latest collaboration was nominated for best short. Im exited to be part of a unity, witch collective aim is to make damn good movies, no matter what.

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KAREL ANTONIN (Prague)
http://www.karelantonin.com

IMDB Credits: 24
Feature: A Killer in Prague

From his Site: Karel Antonin has composed scores for over 50 projects, including short films, features, drama series, commercials and video games of various genres. In 2009 he won the award for the best score on Game Developers Session. In 2011 he won "The Best Score" award at the Underground Cinema Awards in Ireland.

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RICHARD JOHN BAKER (Los Angeles)
http://filmcueonline.com/Welcome.html#

IMDB Credits: 23
Feature: 2 Bedroom 1 Bath

From his Site: Richard Baker has been scoring for Film, Television and Advertising in both Los Angeles and Montréal for over 20 years. A former member of the band Santana, Mr. Baker is a highly trained musician and composer with deep roots in classical, jazz, Latin and pop.

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JEFFREY MICHAEL (Michigan)
http://www.jeffreymichaelmusic.com/music.html

IMDB Credits: 23
Feature: Dreams and Shadows

From his Site: Jeffrey composes original music for media such as film, television, video games corporate videos and basically any project that is heightened by original music.

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NICK NORTON-SMITH (London)
http://nortonsmith.com

IMDB Credits: 20
Documentary: One Rogue Reporter

From his Site: Award winning composer and multi instrumentalist with many diverse commissions including: BBC1, BBC3, GMTV, ITV, Channel 4, Sky1, corporate, advertising, web, documentary, features, shorts, animation.

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NATE FINAN (Los Angeles)
http://www.natefinan.com

IMDB Credits: 20
Feature: Limbo

From his Site: I am a Los Angeles based composer and multi-instrumentalist. Notable projects I've contributed to include ABC's hit nighttime drama "Revenge", National Geographic's Emmy-winning "Great Migrations", and "On the Ice" -- an Official Sundance Selection.

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Here's my nomination:

JAN MORGENSTERN (Germany)
http://www.janmorgenstern.com/

Two-time Jerry Goldsmith Award winner. Has released many soundtracks under Creative Commons and does a lot of work with open movie projects, such as The Blender Institute.
 
Awesome thread.
 
Taking a deeper dive into the never-ending well of RedUser posts:

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KAREL ANTONIN (Prague)
http://www.karelantonin.com

From his website: Karel Antonin has composed scores for over 50 projects, including short films, features, drama series, commercials and video games of various genres. In 2009 he won the award for the best score on Game Developers Session. In 2011 he won "The Best Score" award at the Underground Cinema Awards in Ireland.

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HERMAN WITCAM (Amsterdam)
http://www.herman-witkam.com


From IMDB: Herman Witkam is one of the new breed of cinematic composers. Not only does he write all the notes but he also performs many of the instruments heard in his scores. Working as a film composer since 2005, Herman Witkam has already established a long list of credits, including composing for over 100 features, shorts, television series, TV and radio ads, games, corporate films, events and theater projects.
 
Okay, I just added a bunch more composers to the original list on the second post. This is all very exciting to me because I'm discovering some terrifically talented people. I hope other chime in with more suggestions. Now that the list is becoming more substantial I decided to implement a system of sorts as to whom to include. These are my first thoughts and are definitely open to suggestions:

INCLUSION CRITERIA

1. I think if a composer has interacted in any way with the RedUser community they should be automatically included :)

2. For everyone else, I feel that they should have at least 10 IMDB credits as composers. Composing a feature film is a daunting process, so at least a certain amount of experience should be a requirement. The 10 credits can be of shorts, TV, video games, etc.

3. The composer should have a site where one can hear their music. With this in mind, most links I include are to their demo page and not to the main splash page.

4. For each composer I tried to list one sample credit (their most prominent one). I have purposely excluded huge films they may have worked on in other capacities like Music Supervisors, Orchestratos, etc. I feel the focus should be on composing.

5. Geography is not a concern. However the composer should speak enough English at a professional level in order to work with anyone who frequents this site.

6. And finally, I am arranging everyone in order of Number of IMDB credits. While this in of itself doesn't mean anything scientific, it does give a rough order of experience. For those looking for the most prominent composers and have the funds to hire them, then they can concentrate on the first half of the list. For those starting out or without a sufficient budget, they could try their luck with the emerging talent of the second half.
 
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BRIAN ADLER (Los Angeles)
http://www.brianadlermusic.com/listen.html

IMDB Credits: 20
Feature: Ninja Cheerleaders

From his Site: Brian's music has been recorded by Oscar and Grammy winners as well as members of the Rock and Roll hall of Fame. His musical creations total well into the thousands ranging from small ensemble to full orchestral scores for over 20 films TV shows and Video Games as well as songs covering a wide variety of genres.

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WADE MARSHALL (Louisiana)
http://www.wademarshall.com/#!music/c1x9v

IMDB Credits: 18
Feature: Campin' Buddies

From his Site: Music Composer with 20 years plus experience in the industry. Have composed music for Film, TV, Video Games, and Media.

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BRIAN WILBUR GRUNDSTROM (Washington DC)
http://www.brianwilbur.com/html/compsFilm.html

IMDB Credits: 18
Documentary: Arc of Light: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss

From his Site: His compositions for film, orchestra, musical theater, chorus, piano, and chamber ensembles demonstrate an innovative use of harmony and melody, which although firmly rooted in the tonal tradition is entirely new.

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DAVID VARGA (New York)
http://www.dvarga.com/music-composition.php

IMDB Credits: 16
Feature: Imposter

From his Site: Mr. Varga recently provided the music for the independent film, "Imposter" and also “Happy Ending” which premiered at CineGear Expo at Paramount Studios and The Newport Beach Film Festival respectively. Two additional films, "The Windermere Guest" and "Old Monster", have just finished the festival circuit.

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RICHARD DECOSTA
http://composer.richarddecosta.com/music-home/film/

IMDB Credits: 16
TV Series: Raged Isle

From his Site: Since 1981, Richard has produced more than 500 compositions for orchestra, string quartet, solo piano, organ, chamber ensembles, and combinations of synthesizers and full orchestra, 15 solo albums of electronic music, and music for film, animation and video games. In the studio, he has produced and engineered more than 75 albums, performing drums on more than half of them.

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OSCAR NAVARRO (Spain)
http://www.onavarro.com/filmMusicENG/audiodemo/

IMDB Credits: 14
Feature: The Mule

From his Site: Oscar is the recipient of many national and international music awards for composition, and his music is performed and commissioned by many orchestral and wind ensembles throughout the globe.

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MARINHO NOBRE (New York)
http://www.marinhonobre.com/p/music.html

IMDB Credits: 14
Feature: Gnome Alone

From his Site: Marinho Nobre is an award winning composer and producer with a unique signature to his music. Skilled both in electronic synth generated as well as orchestral scores on a variety of genres such as classical and ethnic, he is conquering steady ground in the world of film music.

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THOMAS ROUCH (Australia)
http://thomaserouch.com/music-8.html

IMDB Credits: 12
Feature: The Reckoning

From his Site: Following a successful career as a session guitarist and music producer Thomas has quickly made a name for himself as a film composer both in Australia and overseas. His latest feature film score for the crime thriller 'The Reckoning' has recently won the award for Best Music at the British Independent Film Festival 2014.

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ROLANDO GORI (New York)
http://ragori.musa212.com/music.php

IMDB Credits: 12
Documentary: Akwantu: The Journey

From his Site: I am a composer and singer/songwriter living in New York City. More recently, I began writing music for indie films, including 3 feature-length documentaries. I am comfortable writing in most orchestral genres, but feel comfortable with experimentation, electronic music and song. I am currently a composer with the HD Music Now and Twisted Jukebox libraries.

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ARLEN L. CARD (Utah)
http://www.arlencard.com/demos/

IMDB Credits: 11
Feature: The Mountain of the Lord

From his Site: Veteran film/video composer Arlen L. Card has composed for well over 100 projects during his 25-year career to date.

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MITCHELL COVINGTON (Los Angeles)
http://www.mitchellcovington.com/page3.html

IMDB Credits: 11
Documentary: Saving the Bay

From his Site: Award winning film score composer with lots of experience in projects ranging from 3 minute trailers to a 4-hour PBS documentary series. I bring the highest level of professionalism to every project.

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RAMON REYES / BRETT BERGMAN (Los Angeles)
http://www.productionhub.com/profiles/details/275080

IMDB Credits: 11
Feature: ---

From IMDB: Brett Bergman is a Los Angeles based film, visual media and pop music composer whose work has enhanced an array of films, dance pieces and commercials.

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SHOHAN CAGLE (Los Angeles)
http://www.shohanmediamusic.com

IMDB Credits: 10
Feature: Gold Rush

From his Site: I'm a Film & Media Music Composer. I have over 10 years of experience playing a variety of instruments including Guitar, Bass Guitar, Piano, Percussion and I am a classically trained vocalist. I also have a variety of ethnic instruments.

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BRIAN LYSTER (Vancouver)
http://www.brianlyster.com

IMDB Credits: 10
TV Series: After Judgment

From his Site: Based out of Vancouver, BC I have worked on a variety of projects for film, television and new media in Canada and the US for the past 8 years.

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KATRINA ZEMRAK (Maine)
http://katrinazemrak.com/filmspieces/

IMDB Credits: 10
Feature: ---

From her Site: As a film composer, Katrina strives to create the specific atmosphere you are looking for in your film that will help immerse the audience, while as a classical composer, she strives to push boundaries and utilize new techniques in every piece.

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MARTIJN DE MAN (Rotterdam)
http://www.martijndeman.com/music_nieuw.htm

IMDB Credits: 10
Feature: ---

From his Site: I've been a professional composer for over 10 years and am looking for possible new collaborations. My previous credits include among ohters music for Canon, Microsoft, Mirai & MTV.

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LAURENT KOLEDA (Paris)
http://www.laurentkoleda.com/En/Home.html

IMDB Credits: 10
Documentary: Assam, la terre des dieux

From his Site: A multi-instrumentalist, he has performed as keyboardist, guitarist, drummer and bass in different rock and jazz groups, before evolving into a composer and arranger for different artists and singers. Currently, Laurent works as film and TV composer.

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GEOFFREY BURCH (Oklahoma)
http://www.geoffreyburch.com/music/

IMDB Credits: 9
Feature: Belleville

From his Site: Geoffrey Burch is an American Composer of music for film, video games, and other visual media in a style described as “Praxeological.”

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JAN MORGENSTERN (Germany)
http://www.janmorgenstern.com/

IMDB Credits: 8
Feature: ---

Two-time Jerry Goldsmith Award winner. Has released many soundtracks under Creative Commons and does a lot of work with open movie projects, such as The Blender Institute.

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FABIO ACRI (Australia)
https://fabioacri.wix.com/fabioacri#!untitled/cb5h

IMDB Credits: 6
Feature: The Pineville Heist

No bio information available.

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TIKO LASOLA (Finland)
http://tikolasola.com/tracks/

IMDB Credits: 3
Feature: Rendel (Filming)

Tiko has collaborated with several ResUsers on a variety of projects. One such fellow RedUser, Peter Majtan, proclaimed: “…he is hands-down the most talented music composer I have worked with. Mark my words - this is next gen Hans Zimmer in making.”

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HAMILTON CLEVERDON (Alabama)
http://www.freewebs.com/hamiltonmusic/playlist.htm

IMDB Credits: 2
Feature: ---

From his Site: Hamilton is an accredited music composer from Birmingham, Alabama who had already begun movie and video game scoring as a career at just 18. He has scored several video games (X‐box & Playstation), short films, demo trailers, television pilots, movies, and is currently working on a short film entitled "Ronan's Escape" as well as several films for Poppoli Pictures, an Iceland-based production company.

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DAVID PYE (Australia)
http://www.novaensemble.com.au/davidpye/

IMDB Credits: 1
Feature: ---

From his Site: Composer, percussionist and conductor, David is one of Western Australia’s most experienced musicians and has been at the forefront of new music in WA for the past thirty years.

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SAMUEL CAVE (Toronto)
http://www.samuelcave.com/audio

IMDB Credits: 0
Feature: ---

Samuel is a RedUser member. From his Site: Samuel Cave is a film composer from Boston, currently residing in Toronto. He is known for his work as a founding member of The Trouble and The Explosion (Virgin Records). Cave's recent composer credits include the short films 'In The Quiet' (dir. Scott Holgate) and 'Opposites' (dir. Daniele Manoli).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XLcfdkkHQE - composer Hamilton Cleverdon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGQzOLBTpV4 - composer Hamilton Cleverdon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3AOl6o04W4 - composer Ash Gibson Greig.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRkB30jSedU - composer Fabio Acri. Also to score the complete film now in post.
( The new trailer with new score remains secured for the time being. )

http://thomaserouch.com/ - Composer for "The Reckoning."

http://www.novaensemble.com.au/davidpye/ - Scored arrangements of the the Tenor aria from the Auber Opera Fra Diavolo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWpBhIyuq8k
 
Thank you Robert!

I completed the information for all 5. I will collate and include them in the long list when I update it with the next batch. By the way, the complete score for the film "The Reckoning" is available at Thomas Rouch's site. I'm listening to it right now and it's pretty good so far.

ROBERT HART'S RECOMMENDATIONS:

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ASH GIBSON GREIG (Australia)
http://www.ashgibsongreig.com.au/Feature_Films.html

IMDB Credits: 54
Documentary Series: The War That Changed Us

From his Site: Ash’s film work includes award-winning short films such as Iron Bird, Professor Pebbles, The Fan, and Tinglewood. Ash has also composed for four independent features (The Actress, Plum Role, No Through Road and Congoro) and Big Momma’s Boy.

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THOMAS ROUCH (Australia)
http://thomaserouch.com/music-8.html

IMDB Credits: 12
Feature: The Reckoning

From his Site: Following a successful career as a session guitarist and music producer Thomas has quickly made a name for himself as a film composer both in Australia and overseas. His latest feature film score for the crime thriller 'The Reckoning' has recently won the award for Best Music at the British Independent Film Festival 2014.

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FABIO ACRI (Australia)
https://fabioacri.wix.com/fabioacri#!untitled/cb5h

IMDB Credits: 6
Feature: The Pineville Heist

No bio information available.

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HAMILTON CLEVERDON (Alabama)
http://www.freewebs.com/hamiltonmusic/playlist.htm

IMDB Credits: 2
Feature: ---

From his Site: Hamilton is an accredited music composer from Birmingham, Alabama who had already begun movie and video game scoring as a career at just 18. He has scored several video games (X‐box & Playstation), short films, demo trailers, television pilots, movies, and is currently working on a short film entitled "Ronan's Escape" as well as several films for Poppoli Pictures, an Iceland-based production company.

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DAVID PYE (Australia)
http://www.novaensemble.com.au/davidpye/

IMDB Credits: 1
Feature: ---

From his Site: Composer, percussionist and conductor, David is one of Western Australia’s most experienced musicians and has been at the forefront of new music in WA for the past thirty years.

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Here's a few more, closer to you than Australia. I listened to their demo stuff on www.zoetrope.com "The Virtual Studio." but it was a few years back. I much liked most of the pieces. I don't know who of them have prospered since other than Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin, whose demo was a live recorded piece performed by a small symphonic orchestra whilst he was still at Juilliard. I have since seen his name in a movie credit. Some others on Zoetrope also had prior screen credits and some have also progressed.

If you join Zoetope, you should be able to look up "The Music Building" and the sub-site "Film Scoring" and be able to access their bios.

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I looked up Lev Zhurbin's website and his name is attached to several Coppola films.

http://www.ljova.com/works/filmography/
 
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--- and for the sake of a little personal aggrandisement and vanity but definitely not for consideration of myself for a movie underscore gig - this is one I submitted to Zoetrope myself for the helpful feedback and learning experience the site yielded. I do a bit of my own stuff as an interest, mainly pairs. I muchly like film underscores and some music written for commercial advertising. Whilst it earns a dollar for the composer, it seems a waste after the campaign has run and it goes into the bin or an archive if lucky.

Influences in this one, the late John Barry and the late Brian May. My age is showing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RE3BDlndjc
 
I've worked with Tiko Lasola for about year now on 5 or 6 different projects, and several more on the way. I can't sing his praises enough and highly recommend him.

What I love about the working relationship with him is that he'll take a piece of inarticulate direction from me, usually a reference or some sort of feeling, and turn in into a pretty brilliant melody. I'll also mix up the genres on him, and he has no problem mastering them. For instance we'll need some latin influenced score for one project, or a big band piece for another and he'll nail it. For our next one, he'll be tackling a Caribbean score for us.

He's really attentive to a filmmaker's needs, takes direction without any ego and couldn't be easier to work with.

My .02
 
I wanted to thank everyone for your great suggestions. I am going all out on my search for a composer. From what I have heard so far there is a lot of incredibly talented people out there. It's definitely worth it to explore each composer's website.

Bob Gundu said:
My dear friend Mychael Danna is great. Too bad I can't afford to hire him for even my own projects! :laugh:

http://www.mychaeldanna.com
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Thanks for the suggestion Bob! While I would also love to hire Mychael Danna, I have a feeling he's also too expensive for our budget. I came to realise this very sad fact when I saw that many of his albums are already in my music collection.
 
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