This is a score I wrote to a film many years ago that has stuck as one of the better examples of tensions and horror writing I've done to date. Sadly, the film never got a full release, but the imagery of a Wendigo stalking two campers in the woods is almost not necessary when compared to the power of the imagination. Horror lives in our worst fears and the woods at night with a stalking cannibalistic creature rank pretty high on mine.

Wendigo Main Title

Familiar Tree

The Nightmare

The Baby's Cry

Melissa Runs Away

A Premonition

There's Nothing Left To Do

Campfire Promise/The Scream

Tree Nearly Hits Tent/We're Leaving Now!

Here is a short collection of music loops appropriate for video games with an epic fantasy or war vibe.

Sorcery Loop

Epic War Loop

SFI Assignments

Heroes Style Loop

This is a compilation of recordings I tracked for a talented singer named Molly Gilman to help make her a professional vocal demo for her career pursuits in the New York City Musical Theater scene. It was such a thrill to work with her on this project.

Molly - What My Cutie Mark Is Telling Me (Mixed)

Molly - Congratulations (Mixed)

Molly - She Used To Be Mine (Mixed)

Molly - For The First Time In Forever (Mixed)

10 Song For Big John (Mixed)

9 Retweet Me (MIxed)

6 The Only Thing (Mixed)

3 No Cameras (Mixed))

1 Searching For Bohemia (Mixed)

This was a track a wrote years ago and was inspired by my love for Scotland and the open countryside.

Heart Of The Highlands

This was a piece of orchestral music I wrote for a film scoring competition. It is a rescoring of a scene from the Studio Ghibli film "Grave of the Fireflies." It depicts a frantic scene of a boy trying to save his sister from the firebombing of Kobe, Japan, as we near the end of World War II.

Fleeing the Bombing - Based on a Scene from Grave of the Fireflies

This was a re-imagining I did of the "Firebird" scene from Fantasia 2000, originally scored by Igor Stravinsky. I wanted to capture a sense of rebirth and life burgeoning back into being. I got a chance to conduct this piece with the Ruse, Philharmonic in Ruse, Bulgaria and you can see that video on my Conducting page. I hope you enjoy my take on this timeless story.

From The Ashes - Based on a Scene from Fantasia 2000

This is a piece that I will look at as a seminal composition in the career of film composition that I have now embarked upon. It was so thrilling to work with professional musicians in the Seattle Symphony and the surrounding area to make this piece come to life and it was a dream fulfilled to conduct it myself (and also a bit terrifying, but in the best possible way). The title was somewhat chosen on a whimsey by me but I imagine a weaver of dreams taking us on a grand adventure through space and time. I hope you enjoy a piece largely inspired by a particular 1980's film score that I will let the listener guess the name of :)

Voyage Of The Dreamweaver

This was my first project at the Pacific NW Film Scoring Program and so it will always hold a special place in my heart. It is a simple melody that reminds me at times of one of the themes from the musical "Peter Pan." The oboist who soloed for me was such a trooper even when I gave her almost no chances to breath (oopsy!).

From Now On

This is the climactic moment realized musically from a play I underscored called "The Woman in Black." In this terrifying scene, Arthur Kipps sees a woman with a wasted faces rising from the mud behind him. The woman in black hides a dark secret and cannot rest until vengeance is hers. 

Woman Rising From The Mud

I am a film/game music composer living in Boulder, Colorado. My idols in the film music world are composers like James Horner, Jerry Goldsmith and Alan Silvestri. Perhaps you'll hear one of them in my work, and perhaps you'll also just hear a window into my soul as an artist. Welcome to my soundcloud!

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