Composers
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
In a 35 year career focussed mainly on music for the cinema and television Geoff has from time to time also strayed into the parallel worlds of theatre, concert hall, rock’n’roll and video games. His recent orchestrating projects include The Secret Garden (2020), The Secret: Dare To Dream (2020), Geisha (Northern Ballet 2020), Night On […]
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 […]
Ian ARBER – composer
Ian Arber is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist. A classically trained cellist and pianist, Ian is known for combining live and electronic elements in his scores, using his cello to create rich, melodic phrases, and manipulating organic tones to create unique synthetic atmospheres. Ian’s career has gone from strength to strength following on from a […]
Dan BABOULENE & Dean VALENTINE – Composers
Award-winning composers Dean Valentine and Dan Baboulene have joined forces in what is set to be one of the year’s most exciting composer alliances. Energised by the considerable musical chemistry they discovered while working together on two LA based projects currently under wraps. Dean and Dan are expanding their partnership, fusing their influences and instincts […]
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 […]
Mark CHAIT – composer, musician, songwriter
Mark Chait has created successful music scores and theme songs for some of the most popular Chinese TV drama series this century including Frontier of Love which was nominated for Best TV Score by the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA), and Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine which broke all ratings records in 2019. His latest series The Fiery […]
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 […]
D.Foe – Rob Clydesdale & Mark Daniels – Composers
D.Foe are Rob Clydesdale and Mark Daniels who were both founding members of music collectives that were the pioneering forces behind acid jazz, trip-hop and big beat back in the 90’s Since then they’ve established the D.Foe name in the top rung of British composers with their scores for the Sky/Dark Harbor Stories series Intelligence, […]
Peter Michael DAVISON – composer, conductor.
2020 promises to be an exciting year for composer Peter Michael Davison. Having completed the orchestral score for the stop motion animation film Strike, he has been busy promoting the film throughout Europe and the USA. Produced by Gigglefish Studios, with a team from Aardman and featuring the voice of Ken Stott. Composed, orchestrated and […]
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 […]
Gizmo – Composer, producer, songwriter
Gizmo Varillas is a young artist with millions of plays on Spotify and radio play from LA to Tokyo, his music already reaching people all over the world. He is also a songwriter, record producer and composer currently working with Jack Savoretti. He was born in Spain, raised in Wales and now lives in South […]
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 […]
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 – composer, orchestrator, arranger
2020 started with a bang for Matt. Not only was he nominated for a Grammy, he also arranged Francesco Gabbani’s entry for the San Remo Song Festival, which came in second. He’s rekindled his working relationship with composer Dean Valentine and they’re busy on film projects. 2019 has been largely taken up with expanding his […]
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 – composer
Chris Roe is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist based in London, working on a myriad of films across all genres. His music has been described as “brilliantly unnerving”, poignant”, “full of passion” and “highly energetic”. He is a member of BAFTA Crew, Music and Sound Award nominee 2018 &2019 and a graduate of the Royal […]
Dave ROWNTREE – composer, songwriter
Dave Rowntree, Blur drummer extraordinaire and songwriter, was responsible, along with fellow SMA Talent composer, Ian Arber, for the score for the BBC1’s hit The Capture which received universal acclaim from the critics and viewers alike. The pair are putting the finishing touches to a major new series to be broadcast later this year. They […]
SAVORETTI/TORP – Composers, Songwriters
Photo: Clement Lauchard Savoretti/Torp is the recently formed film and tv scoring partnership between one of Europe’s best-selling singer songwriters and multi-million selling recording artist and performer, Jack Savoretti, and his musical director, Nikolaj Torp Larsen. Savoretti/Torp’s music is contemporary, haunting and thematic and they work with small ensembles, voices, strings […]
Michael SMITH – Composer, co-composer, arranger
What do Damon Albarn and Shaun The Sheep have in common? Michael Smith! What may surprise some is that Mike has a proven track record in writing music for film and tv. Most recently, he wrote, produced and performed some songs for Aardman’s Shaun The Sheep:Farmageddon (2019) stop action film, to be released later this […]
Joacim STARANDER – composer
Joacim Starander was born into a music biz family – his father, Bo Starander, was in The Spotnicks, the first Swedish pop group to break into the international market in the 1960s – so it was somehow inevitable that young Joacim would have a career in music. Today he is one of his country’s leading […]
Dean VALENTINE – composer
Immediately recognisable and impossible to imitate, multi award-winner, Dean is his own master and his strikingly unique, signature sound brings an extraordinary edge to his feature and trailer scores. Constantly in demand, like a man on a mission, he continues to bring his film score sound to the trailer genre. 2019 has been ridiculously busy […]
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…
Dan BABOULENE
Dan has assisted high-end composers on several films and 2019 has seen him score in his own right. Passionate about film music, he scored his first film at 16. His second film Going Under (Toby Paton) was nominated in the ‘Up and Coming’ category of London Film Festival. Since then he obtained a music degree […]
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
London-based, Jeremy James Hunt has been rushed off his feet in early 2020, assisting several A-list composers (they remain nameless). He is slated to score a feature horror film. 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 […]
Jonathon DEERING
2020 kicked off with more attention on the controversial Paramount and BBC feature, ‘Blue Story’, produced by Damian Jones. In 2019, aside from Blue Story, Jonathon wrote the music for dance company, Northern Rascals, and their new show , ‘The Mesmerist’, which premiered at York Theatre Royal in February 2019. It featured 45 minutes of […]
Matthew CHASTNEY
Matthew Chastney is a UK-based composer, producer and sound designer. In addition to original albums and EPs, he has worked on scores and soundtracks for various projects. Recent works include Tin Hearts, a VR video game developed by Rogue Sun, ‘A Tale of Time’. an upcoming mixed-reality animated short by RYOT, the teaser trailer for […]
Neil Myers
Film & TV Composer Neil has worked in the industry for the past fifteen years and his scores have covered a multitude of genres, including documentaries, sports promos and titles, advertising, theatre, branding & idents and film & orchestra. His work has seen collaborations with fellow composers and musicians such as David Arnold, Katherine Jenkins, […]
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 […]