Orchestral/Traditional

Travel beneath the seas to a long-lost mystical kingdom...

Set as a personal challenge to compose a 60-second cue in just 60 minutes.

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Journey to Atlantis

Excerpts from the soundtrack for a short animation comedy about an trainee alien who's trying to work out how to abduct people (not entirely successfully).

Recorded with the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra in the college's famous Amaryllis Fleming Concert Hall, conducted by Alastair King (Shrek, Harry Potter, Downton Abbey).

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Lifted

Rescoring of the chase scene in 'The Boxtrolls' (2014) - set as a challenge by the film's original composer, Dario Marianelli.

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Escape from the Exterminators

Emma is an inanimate character in a pop-up book, but when she suddenly comes to life she discovers that her paperback world is full of wondrous things...

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Flip

Soundtrack selections from 'Wild Side' (2016), directed by Heikki Simppula.

Two Finnish friends embark on an adventure into a mysterious forest in order to tackle the difficulties of growing up - and of trolls...

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The Wild Side

Wild Side - Into the Woods

David Allen is an award-winning composer of film, choral, and concert music, who works in a variety of styles & genres for a wide range of musical projects.

Orchestral, electronic, acoustic, synthesisers, choral, voice, sound effects.

Winner: Best Score - Screentest 2017
Winner: Girolamo Abos Composition Prize 2015
Nominated: WDR Filmscore Award 2015

MMus Comp. for Screen - Royal College of Music
MA Music - University of Oxford

Associate of the Royal College of Organists

Contact David: http://davidallencomposer.com
Showreel: http://davidallencomposer.com/media