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After graduating from NYU our next guest moved to LA to pursue a career in media scoring. He has written music for Emmy Award-winning shows Ozark and Vikings and contributed music to Blizzard Entertainment’s hit game Diablo IV. Fun fact: He was my music theory tutor, and we also co-composed the music for IFC Midnight thriller Centigrade.  

He scored Netflix’s Castlevania: Nocturne and I’m so excited to welcome him on to the podcast

And the composer is... Trey Toy

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This next composer recently scored HBO Original Chimp Crazy and is the composer behind Ingrid Goes West, The Peanut Butter Falcon, and Dollface among other projects. I’m so excited to welcome him on to the podcast. 

And the composer is… Jonathan Sadoff

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Our next guest is best known for his work scoring huge films from Frozen and Ant-Man to The Hangover films, Nimona, and way more. He recently scored Doug Liman’s The Instigators and Marvel Studio's Agatha All Along and I’m so excited to welcome him on the podcast. 

And the composer is… Chris Beck

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Our next guest is best known for his work in the band The National as well as scoring movies including Sing Sing and Cyrano and TV shows Manhunt and Photographer among others. He's one of my favorite composers and guitarists and I'm so excited to welcome him on to the podcast!

And the composer is... Bryce Dessner

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Our next guest is an ASCAP award-winning composer who has written music for The Boys, Gen V, The Bachelor and It's A Wonderful Binge among other projects. He got his start working for producer Matt Wallace before pivoting to Emoto Music and then meeting composer Christopher Lennertz who has been a mentor and later co-composer on a number of projects.

And the composer is... Matt Bowen

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Our next guest started his career writing for the video game magazine Games Zone to afford his first synthesizer. From there, he has scored films from Ocean’s 8, Steve Jobs, The Man from U.N.C.L.E and Ferrari to Spider-Man Into The Spider-Verse and Across The Spider-Verse. He recently scored Fly Me To The Moon and I am so excited to chat with my musical hero today. 

And the composer is… Daniel Pemberton

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Our next composer is a recent friend and amazing composer who is behind the music of the 2023 Riot Games’ League Of Legends - Lunar New Year Campaign. He has worked as an additional writer for composer Lorne Balfe on projects including The Wheel Of Time, Life On Our Planet, His Dark Materials, and Victoria's Secret: Angels & Demons among others. He is the composer of the psychological horror feature film Dead Whisper and I am so excited to welcome him on to the podcast. 

And the Composer is…Nikhil Koparkar

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Our next guest was born and raised in London England, where he studied at the Royal Academy of Music and was mentored by the iconic Rupert-Gregson Williams. In 2009 he moved to Los Angeles to join Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions, where he worked on the music departments of various major studio films, before transitioning to solo work.

Since then he has made a name for himself composing projects such as the Amazon series Man In The High Castle, the Disney+ Monsters Inc. franchise series Monsters At Work, and Sony Pictures films Peter Rabbit (2018), Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021), and Bullet Train (2022). 

Most recently he completed the score Universal Pictures Film The Fall Guy starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. I'm incredibly excited to chat with him on this episode!

And the composer is… Dominic Lewis

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Our next guest is the co-founder of NYC-Based Found Objects and the composer behind such films as I’m Thinking Of Ending Things and Swan Song. 

He’s the composer of Apple TV’s Franklin starring Michael Douglas and I’m so excited to chat with him today. 

And the composer is… Jay Wadley

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Our next guest is one of the first composers I ever met when I first moved to LA. He is best known for his work scoring Sneaky Pete, Meet Cute, and recently Netflix Hit Homicide: New York. He’s also written music for video games including Far Cry 6 and Skull and Bones and I’m so excited to welcome him to the podcast.

And The Composer Is... Stephen Lukach

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Our next guest is on the rise having written music for films premiering at Sundance, SXSW, and the Los Angeles Film Festival among many more. They scored A24's Problemista by Julio Torres, and the Gotham Award and Independent Spirit nominated film Bruiser on Hulu. Under their solo moniker OHYUNG, they produce genre-shifting music that moves between ambient, experimental pop, and distorted noise. I’m so excited to welcome them onto the podcast.

And the composer is… Robert Ouyang Rusli

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Our next guest is behind the music of projects including Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy, Blue Planet II, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, HBO’s The Last Of US, and Netflix’s Damsel.

He was mentored by legendary composer Mike Post and has frequently collaborated with composers Atli Örvarsson and Hans Zjmmer having contributed music for Dune, Top Gun: Maverick, and Dune 2 among many other films. I’m so excited to welcome him on the podcast. 

And the composer is… Dave Fleming

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Our next guest is one of the first people I met when I started my journey as a composer. She’s an amazing composer, and vocalist and earned her B.M. in music composition from Biola University’s Conservatory of Music, going on to work with notable composers James Horner, Thomas Newman, and Jacob Shea.

She is the composer of Dreamworks Animation’s The Croods: Family Tree, Harlan Coben's Shelter on Amazon Prime, and the documentary After Death. 

And the composer is... Hannah Parrott

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Our next guest is an award-winning Venezuelan composer based in Los Angeles, CA who specializes in film, TV, Interactive, and New Media music.

His sensibility as a composer is evidenced in his lush orchestral scores, always infused with hints of his diverse upbringing and culture. His eclectic style is the consequence of his development as a musician, going from pop and rock bands, to a classical music education, to jazz and electronic influences from his studies in the US.

​He recently scored the film “The Secret History of Venom” for Marvel Animation, and has written for many feature films including the Venezuelan box office hit “Papita Segunda Base” and the Daytime Emmy Award winning Documentary “Out of Iraq”. His music can be heard on the feature documentary “History of the Emirates”, and on hit TV shows like Netflix’s “Outer Banks” and “What/If”, AMC’s “Dietland”, Bravo’s “Girlfriend’s Guide To Divorce”, Freeform’s “Good Trouble” and HBO’s “Adventure Time: Obsidian”. Other recent projects include the feature films “Christmas Comes Home”, “Farm to Fork to Love” and “Stranger In The Attic”, as well as the Venezuelan film “Plástico”.

The composer is... Sandro Morales-Santoro

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Our next guest is a media composer, pianist, music educator, and music theorist. Studying under composer Dr. Scott Meister and pianist Dr. Bair Shagdaron, she earned her bachelor’s degree in Music Theory/Composition from Appalachian State University in 2012. Immediately following, she enrolled at Columbia College Chicago’s Master of Fine Arts program “Scoring for the Screen”. She was a Follett Scholar (Columbia’s highest honor) and studied under composers Gary Chang, David McHugh, and Andrew Edwards. To conclude her time at Columbia, she recorded four works Capitol Records and earned her degree in May 2014. 

Following her time at Columbia, she began an internship with film composer Mark Isham then interned at Kraft-Engel Management. She met composer Jake Monaco while there and assisted  him for a number of years before "graduating" onto writing additional music for projects including Dumplin' and Human Discoveries. She has recently co-composed the score for A Cinderella Story: Starstruck with Jake and I'm so excited to talk with her about it!

The composer is... Brittany Dunton

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An Argentinian-American composer, conductor, orchestrator and violinist, our next guest is a two-time Global Music Award-winning composer. 

His latest project, the documentary The Sound of Identity features the first-ever transgender woman performing an opera lead in the U.S. with a professional company, in a standard work. The film is about a profile in identity sprinkled with Mozart, but Nicolas rejected the idea of imitating Mozart’s sound. Instead, he gravitated towards a neo-romantic feel and decided on a string orchestra, soloists within the string orchestra, and the addition of a few synths for movement and added interest.

Nicolas' music is a blend of Argentinian/Latin/world influences, classical training, electronics sensibility, and modern film and television soundtracks. He has scored numerous films and projects such as Phil Donlon’s drama The Reunion, James Kicklighter’s short Angel of Anywhere, and a Circle City Film Festival award-winning short Tijuana. He also has music placements on TLC, HBO, and in various advertising campaigns. In addition to Sound of Identity, James’ upcoming projects include the documentary The American Question, fantasy feature Empire Queen: The Golden Age of Magic; and indie horror feature, Spider.

The Composer is... Nicolas Repetto

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Our next guest is a composer born and raised in Los Angeles. His latest projects include Eytan Rockaway’s Lansky, starring Harvey Keitel, and Jonathan Hensleigh’s The Ice Road, starring Liam Neeson. He joined the Assassin’s Creed universe for Wrath of the Druids (2021). He co-produced Gryffin’s Deluxe orchestral album (2020) and composed additional music on Mission: Impossible - Fallout for Lorne Balfe, and on The Crown, for Hans Zimmer and Rupert Gregson-Williams. He also wrote additional music on HBO’s His Dark Materials.

The composer is... Max Aruj

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