Fox Scoring Stage

I’ve always been equally passionate about film and music. I remember walking out of my first movie at the cinemas, totally mesmerized, deciding “I’m going to be a film composer.” What’s always drawn me to both mediums is that they are about telling a story. The discovery of a new world, the anticipation of the exotic yet familiar, provoking emotions and thoughts that hopefully lead to a discovery of our own humanity.

Hollywood's Finest Musicians

When I approach scoring a movie, the essential element is for me to get to the core and essence of the film. To musically represent the ideas and themes in the film, serve the drama, and heighten the emotional impact of the scenes. But I always like to take it a step further, going beyond that to figure out what it is that makes the movie unique and how the music can do the same.

Hollywood's Finest Musicians

Where can I musically go to make the score distinctive? Is it going to feature an instrument from another culture? Am I going to record a sound effect and process it to be unrecognizable yet musical? An atypical combination of instruments? An unexpected juxtaposition of instruments to picture? A new electronic sound? What is the combination of styles, instruments and musical languages that are going to create the individual musical world for the film?