Composer Talk brings you indepth interviews with film music composers about their latest projects, but also about their career and how it all started. We've done over a 100 interviews with Hollywood's biggest composers and as well with upcoming talents. Our Composer Talk podcast is now available on Spotify so you can listen when and where you like to our composer interviews.
27 minutes - Recorded by Tim Horemans on 2024-05-03
Christopher Benstead is a British composer of filmmusic, he is a versatile multi-instrumentalist and achieved a First-Class honours in music and sound recording from the University of Surrey. He won an Academy and BAFTA Award for his mixing skills on the film Gravity. Recent additions to his impressive portfolio include scoring the action thrillers Jericho Ridge and Rupture directed by Hamza Jamjoom. Chris has worked extensively with director Guy Ritchie and wrote music to his films Wrath of Man, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, The Covenant. This year he worked on Guy Ritchies Netflix series The Gentlemen and film The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
33 minutes - Recorded by Tim Horemans on 2024-03-20
David Fleming is an American Born composer who began his career in New York writing music for commercials and creating ringtones tones. In 2017 David composed the score for the BBC's internationally acclaimed Blue Planet II alongside Hans Zimmer, which marked the start of a collaborative relationship with the Academy Award-winning composer, encompassing music for films such as Dune, Hillbilly Elegy and Top Gun: Maverick. Recently David wrote the music for the HBO series the last of us, together with Gustavo Santaolalla. He also wrote the music to the Amazon series Mr and Mrs Smith. Netflix just released the film Damsel, a film starring Millie Bobby Brown for which David wrote the score.
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