SMA Composers
In addition to an impressive list of established UK based composers with great credits we also represent four of the most high profile Scandinavian composers as well two top Belgian and German composers. We’re always available to discuss your project and all our can put together a bespoke pitch and are readily available to attend shoots and immerse themselves in the production and work alongside the director to achieve the desired score. Through our colleagues at LA’s Soundtrack Music Associates, we have access to top US and Canadian talent too.
Geoff ALEXANDER – composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor
Geoff’s recent orchestrating include Darkest Hour, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Woman Walks Ahead, Paddington 2, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword The Lady In The Van, Everest, Jimmy’s Hall and Boxtrolls. Already established as one of the leading Hollywood and UK film music arrangers, orchestrators and conductors, Geoff Alexander is also a composer, bringing […]
John ALTMAN – composer, arranger, songwriter
John is a musician’s musician. Music royalty. Accolade after accolade. He’s won BAFTA’s and EMMY’s. He is the proud recipient of a Gold Badge of Excellence for services to British music awarded by his peers in The British Academy of Songwriters & Composers in 2011, a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Monaco Film Festival, and in 2012 […]
Andrew T MACKAY, composer
Multi award-winner, Andrew is a classically trained composer, producer, arranger and conductor dividing his time between London and Mumbai. His company, Bohemia Junction, represents Abbey Road Studios for India as well as the FAMES Project, which is the new ‘go to’ home for orchestral film recording for Hollywood, Europe and Bollywood. Credits over the last […]
Ian ARBER – composer
Ian Arber is on the “ones to watch” list for 2019. Started with the surprise hit feature doc, Bros : After The Screaming Stops which he scored with fellow SMA Talent composer and member of Blur, David Rowntree. It was shown in cinemas, Netflix and the BBC. He’s already begun working with Rupert and Harry Gregson-Williams on several […]
Brian CLIFTON – composer
Belgian based composer Brian Clifton has scored more than 25 feature films and countless television productions in the US and Europe including movies of the week and long running series in Belgium. His latest Hollywood film is Everything But A Man, currently in post, directed by Nnegest Likké for Sneak Preview Entertainment, reuniting him with […]
Christoph ZIRNGIBL, Composer (Germany)
“When I make music, I want to create an emotion – not an impression” Christoph Zirngibl (37) is a German film composer, songwriter and musician who lives in Munich with his family. He is a Music & Sound International Awards nominee and has been awarded several times, e.g. the Hollywood Music in Media Award (King […]
Peter Michael DAVISON
2019 promises to be an exciting year for composer Peter Michael Davison, having recently completed the large orchestral score, for the stop motion animation film Strike. Produced by Gigglefish Studios, with a team from Aardman and featuring the voice of Ken Stott, the film is released as Mango in French cinemas, and will be released in the […]
Arhynn DESCY – composer
Arhynn is currently scoring the action/thriller Eye For An Eye for LA’s Prolific Pictures and director Stephen Lambert and Nine Nights for writer/director Veronica Mckenzie and Reel Brit Productions. Earlier film credits include the thriller Dirty White Lies for Bueld UK Entertainment, the romantic drama Vanished for Dreams Come True Films in the US, and Andrew Moody’s […]
Nick GREEN – composer
Nick is one of the UK’s busiest and most versatile composers. He scored Paula Milne’s Him for Mainstreet Pictures and director Andy de Emmony and he also composed the music for ten hour long episodes of Stan Lee’s Lucky Man for Carnival/Sky . Earlier credits include Big Talk’s 6 part drama Our Zoo, World Production’s 2 […]
HALFDAN E – composer
2019 got off to a flying start with being commissioned to score Ragnaraok a major new tv series for Netflix written by Adam Price the creator of Borgen for which Halfdan also composed the music. He has recently completed the music for series 2 of the hit Danish series Gidseltagningen (Below the Surface) shown on Channel 4 […]
Uno HELMERSSON – Composer (Sweden, Denmark)
Uno Helmersson is an award winning Swedish composer whose credits include the worldwide hit tv series The Bridge, broadcast in more than 100 territories and for which he was awarded a Golden FIPA. Other major credits include the Emmy winning Armadillo documentary series following a group of Danish soldiers for 6 months in Afghanistan; Magnus, […]
Eliot KENNEDY – composer, songwriter
JUST SIGNED Grammy and Ivor Novello award winner, Golden Globe Nominee and the co-writer with Gary Barlow of the hit Broadway musical Finding Neverland, songwriter/record producer Eliot Kennedy now has his first commissions to score films. He’s a long time film fan and one of his interests is studying the film scores of Thomas Newman, […]
Matt SHEERAN
Matt signed a worldwide music publishing deal with BMG in July 2018 so the future for him is burning bright. 2018 began with a flurry or arranging work quick on the heels of the beautiful orchestral duet with brother Ed Sheeran and Andrea Bocelli, ‘Perfect Symphony‘. He’s written a choral version of Blinded By Your Grace […]
Mike MORAN – composer, arranger, songwriter, record producer
Credits include: Time Bandits, New Tricks, Sherlock, Taggart. Mike Moran is one of the most experienced and versatile of composers, his skills include film/tv scoring, arranging, song writing and record production. He has been awarded a Gold Badge for services to British music by The British Academy of Songwriters & Composers; a TRIC Award for […]
Craig PRUESS – composer, arranger, songwriter
Bend It Like Beckham, Bride & Prejudice, Five Days, Moses Jones. Craig is a cutting edge world fusion expert composer/musician/performer, – a versatile American multi-instrumentalist musician, award winning composer, arranger, gold & platinum record producer. He has just completed scoring Gurinder Chadha’s 6-part tv series Beecham House for ITV which is set in India in […]
Chris ROE
Chris Roe is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist based in London, working on a myriad of films across all genres. His music is “brilliantly unnerving” and “highly energetic”. 2017 has been really busy for Chris and projects include: Crime/thriller/horror feature Charismata to be released later in 2017; BBC2’s Is It Safe To Be Gay In The UK?, […]
David ROWNTREE – composer, songwriter
David Rowntree, Blur drummer extraordinaire and songwriter and was responsible, along with fellow SMA Talent composer, Ian Arber, for the score for Bros: When The Screaming Stops which went viral at the end of December 2018. It continues to be the most talked-about documentary on tv. He was nominated in July 2018 for Best Music […]
Dean VALENTINE – composer
2018 was ridiculously busy for Dean and 2019 looks like more of the same. Finished scoring Putin, a feature documentary for LA producers SDG Pictures and also the music for the latest in Human Head Studios/Nine Realms games Rune Ragnarok and Oblivion Song. Other credits include Oscar-nominated The Shape of Water (trailer); The Martian (trailer); Fury (trailer); […]
SMART Composers (SMARisingTalent)
SMART is a new platform for composers determined to make media composing their primary career. Separate from, but affiliated to, SMA Talent, SMART was officially launched in March 2014 and includes composers, arrangers and orchestrators from the UK and continental Europe.
Affiliated to SMA Talent, SMARisingTalent (SMART) is an endorsed collective of the new breed of cutting edge tv, film and game score composers. Producers and directors excited about new talent, possibly working with a limited budget need look no further…
Andy DRAGAZIS
Andy is a composer and producer based in London and some will know him as Blue States. He has over 15 years of experience in the music industry as a multi-instrumentalist with a background in electronica, and his music draws from many influences, moving between electronic soundscapes and subtle organic orchestration. Andy has scored a number of […]
Dave ANDREWS & Pete JOHNSON
Dave Andrews and Pete Johnson are a music production duo specialising in different Caribbean and World styles, including all areas of Reggae, Ska and Latin across all the eras. As well as being an accomplished musician Pete is a world class live engineer and producer with major touring bands. Dave is enjoying a career as a […]
Jeremy James HUNT
Jeremy James Hunt is a London-based Film & TV Composer, known for his work on ‘Grey Suits Us’ (2019), ‘Destination: Dewsbury’ (2018) and ‘Sunshine’ (2018). In early 2019, he completed his score for Tayo Odesanya’s psychological drama ‘Grey Suits Us’, starring Nabhaan Rizwan from BBC’s ‘Informer’. The score was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in […]
Matthew CHASTNEY
An advocate of a ‘less is more’ approach to film scores, Matt consciously avoids any risk of audiences becoming numb to the subtleties and story-telling role of the music. Matt was awarded the Apprentice Award for Sound Design at the 2012 Game Audio Network Guild Awards in San Francisco, just a year after graduating with […]
Sylvia STRAND & Jonathan GREGORY
2018 started with a bang for Sylvia and Jonathan. They started scoring an international feature-length epic docudrama Fearless – The egg that saved a million lives starring Kristofer Hivju (Game of Thrones, Beck, Fast and Furious Franchise) and Vebjørn Enger (The Orheim Company, The Ash Lad; In the hall of the Mountain King and Kjære Pappa) due […]
Tara CREME
Tara Creme is a composer with a distinctive voice, who has scored over 30 films. She has collaborated with a range of filmmakers, artists and theatre directors from the UK and beyond, composing original music for a diverse range of award-winning work. Tara writes for large- scale orchestral and choral ensembles, as well as smaller […]
Wilhelm VON DUNGEN(Germany)
Wilhelm von Dungen has been professionally composing for film and the concert hall for some time and he has a variety of music degrees including an MA for Music & Media at the University of Krems, Austria and a Master Certificate for Orchestration for Film and TV from Berklee College of Music in December 2016. He […]