Film Composer
I will soon start scoring Solange Du schliefst ( While you were sleeping ), a primetime tv drama for German channel ZDF. It is directed by Nicole Weegmann, who also helmed the award-winning Ihr könnt Euch niemals sicher sein ( Outta Control ).
New York, New York !
I am happy to have been awarded Best Film Music at the
South Asian International Film Festival in New York,
for the music of feature film
The Last Thakur, together with my co-composer, Kishon Khan. Almost an Oscar...ok, not quite.
The Last Thakur is available on DVD now in the UK.
After the success of Fatal Attractions, I will be scoring more episodes of this docudrama series for Oxford Scientific Films/BBC/Animal Planet.
Jakob Rørvik's film Scratch ( Breakthru Films / Motlys ) had it's premiere at a sold-out and brilliantly staged screening in London on November 10th.
German tv drama Ihr könnt Euch niemals sicher sein, winner of this year's Adolf-Grimme-Prize and the FIPA D'Or 2008, was just nominated as one of three films for the Deutscher Fernsehpreis ( German Television Award ) It is available now on DVD at amazon.de ( Germany ).
Video
Here are some video examples of my work - enjoy !
The Incredibles
Light At The End Of The Tunnel
Like Father
Outta Control
Tanju Miah
Audio
Listen. Turn up the volume. I hope some of it will trigger your imagination.
| The Stranger
A scene of human tragedy |
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| The Remote
Rescoring "The Incredibles" |
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| Light at the End of the Tunnel
The title track of a short film |
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| King Kommercial's Song
From 'Mad World' |
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| The Dream of the Mother
From 'Tanju Miah' |
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| Fatal Attraction
From the 3-part docudrama 'Fatal Attractions' (BBC/Animal Planet) |
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| Australia
Winning entry (Trailer music for Baz Luhrman's 'Australia') |
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| Weight Message Tunnel
Title track from the short film |
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| Sometimes I Make You Sad
This might just do the same with you |
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| Im Nebel
After a poem by Herrmann Hesse and from the award-winning short 'Vie Sur Mars' |
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| The Liar's Club
Get the orchestra playing |
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| Left In the Rain | |
| Out of Here | |
| Tell Me a Secret | |
| Truth
From the feature documentary 'The Trial' |
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| Kala's Search, Part 3
From the feature film 'The Last Thakur' |
About me
Born in Germany, my mum used to observe me playing with my fingers on the table like on a piano.
Luckily for me, she got me the right equipment a couple of years later, and my first used piano
proved to be superior to the tableside...
From there, it wasn't such a long way to graduating from the National Film & Television School in 2006,
with an MA (Distinction) in Composing for Film & Television. Before coming to the UK, I studied music at
Freiburg’s Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in my native Germany.
With a mixed musical background of pop/jazz
and classical music, I provided orchestral arrangements for pop artists as well as writing concert music,
and orchestrating and conducting the score for the 2003 BBC documentary John Logie Baird – The Man Who Saw the Future.
In the UK, I was part of the team that won the Best Soundtrack Award at soundtrackcologne 2005.
The wide range of short films I have been working on have been screened and in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival
(Prix UIP 2007 for Rotten Apple), Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary, Edinburgh Film Festival,
just to name a few.
I was also selected from over 300 applicants, as one of only twelve participants of the highly regarded
ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop,
held in Los Angeles in July 2007.
In 2006, I worked for my mentor Dario Marianelli
( Pride & Prejudice, Atonement )
on the soundtrack for his film, The Return.
Last year, I scored the
BBC documentary Massacre at Virginia Tech and German TV Feature, Outta Control,
for WDR ( winner of the Adolf-Grimme Prize 2009 and the FIPA D'Or ).
I also recently completed work on The Last Thakur, (Artificial Eye / Breakthru Films),
the feature debut by fellow NFTS graduate Sadik Ahmed as released in cinemas in June 2009,
for which I have been awarded Best Film Score at the South Asian Int. Film Festival New York / SAIFF.
I have also completed the music for the Feature documentary, The Trial, as directed by John Murphy for Headland Pictures.
I am currently scoring the music for a major 3 part drama documentary for
Oxford Scientific Films/Animal Planet/BBC entitled, Fatal Attractions.