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.
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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32 minutes - Recorded by Tim Horemans on 2024-03-08
Blair Mowat is a composer from Scotland, Edinburgh who writes music for television and film. He studied at Durham university and Bristol University. He is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning composer with over 15-years’ experience,His work includes Class, an acclaimed 8-part Doctor Who spin-off series on BBC One, ITV’s international hit show McDonald & Dodds and SKY’s The Amazing Mr. Blunden. He composed the score to Russell T Davies’s latest drama Nolly, starring Helena Bonham Carter, with the collaboration then leading on to Men Up, a film Russell exec-produced, airing on BBC1 in late 2023. He also worked on the Hammer Studios film Doctor Jekyll starring Eddie Izzard which came out end of 2023.
In this Composer Talk Blair gives us an insight view on how he wrote the scores for Nolly and Doctor Jekyll. He also shares his plans of what soundtrack releases we can expect in the nearby future.