A sneak peek at a score I worked on a few months ago for an outstanding animated Halloween TV special called "The Dancing Pumpkin & the Ogre's Plot".

The Dancing Pumpkin & the Ogre's Plot

As an 8 year old growing up in South Australia, Ryan Leach started studying guitar so that he could play Beatles songs, which marked the beginning of a lifelong passion for music. Now an award winning composer for Film and TV, his music has been heard on every major network and clients include MTV and Disney. Before branching out as a freelance composer, Ryan earned a degree in Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music and worked as assistant to veteran composer Michael Levine at Remote Control Productions.

He has scored a dozen feature films including Pastor Shepherd starring Danny Trejo (Robert Rodriguez’s Machete), Serbian film Skinning co-starring Bojana Novakovic (M. Night Shyamalan’s Devil), and Anacapa by writer/director Nicholas Tolkien.  In 2010 Ryan won Best Original Score from the Maverick Movie Awards for his score to Devils Racecourse. For more information visit http://ryanleach.com.

Nací en Barcelona en el año 1971. Desde temprana edad me empecé a interesar por la música. Crecí en una gran época musical como fueron los años 70 y 80. Aunque pueda sonar irónico o contradictorio mis dos estilos favoritos eran y siguen siendo la música electrónica y el rock. Grupos y artistas como Jean-Michel Jarre,Vangelis,Kraftwerk, por un lado y Queen,Alan Parsons,Mike Oldfield y un largo etcétera, por otro, influenciaron mi infancia y adolescencia. No recuerdo el número exacto de pequeños teclados y grandes sintetizadores que hacían las delicias de mis horas libres, emulando a mis ídolos y permitiéndome crear mis propias composiciones. Por circunstancias de la vida no llegué a estudiar música, sin embargo mantengo a día de hoy mis dos grandes hobbies vivos como son la música y la informática, uniendo ambos para realizar un gran sueño, crear.

George is a Film-Multimedia and Video Game Composer, Orchestrator and Musicologist.

Having composed the music for over 30 films (6 feature movies, 25 short movies), many TV Shows, an American Epic Video Game, Documentaries and several other projects, with talented and globally awarded directors and producers. He is delivering popular but unusual genres of film and television music from his professional studio globally. He has written several kinds of music (ambient, epic, abstract, minimal, contemporary, classical, ethnic and others).
His training includes all areas of traditional and modern composition, orchestration, music preparation, and conducting for film and visual mediums (MA in Film Scoring from SMKS-Denmark, Bachelor and MA of Music in Musicology from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Degrees and Diplomas of Harmony, Counterpoint, Byzantine Music, Fugue and Orchestration).
www.GeorgeXoulogis.com

Acoustic Music is a driven and exciting project.
It could be described as a blend of ambient, pop and score music, with strong melodies that soar on top of energetic rhythm sections and deep textures. I’m a indie composer inspired by modern film composers such as Hans Zimmer, but also by indie bands such as The War on Drugs, highlighting a clever and eclectic approach.

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.