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Compositions

Despite starting life primarily as a composer for my big band, in recent years I've been asked to write more and more for film and TV projects as well. The playlist below features selections from a number of different projects I've been involved with, often with Guillermo del Toro and Jorge Gutierrez. The projects represented here include Maya and the Three, Trollhunters, The Shape of Water, Crimson Peak, and The Book of Life, and some from projects where I helped out composers when they needed some…
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Arrangements

I am really an arranger that fell into orchestrating. There is something really satisfying about taking a tune and turning it into something new. While I have done many arrangements for film and television, my work has also been performed by big bands and orchestras all over the world including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Melbourne Symphony, The London Symphony, and the Metropole Orkest in the Netherlands. I provided arrangements of two Moses Sumney songs, "Bless Me" and "Colouour," for Moses in…
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Orchestrations

One thing I love about my job is I get to work in so many genres. One day I could be working on a big band chart and the next conducting a large orchestra at one of LA's famous scoring stages or studios. Take a listen to the scores for some of the movies I've worked on as lead orchestrator for Christophe Beck. Frozen 2 Free Guy Ant-Man and the Wasp I also frequently orchestrate Mark Mothersbaugh's projects. Here are some recent…
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