Welcome

Award-winning film composer Aaron Symonds is equally passionate about film and music. He combines a sensitivity to the drama of a scene with a knowledge of traditional orchestral techniques and a strong melodic sensibility.

His musical style ranges from the big and epic to the small and intimate, often incorporating elements from various cultures, electronic textures and contemporary classical techniques. He is equally comfortable working with live instruments, electronics, ethnic instruments, vocals/choir and full orchestra.

News...

July, 2008

The Response, a short film starring Kate Mulgrew, Peter Reigert, and Sig Libowitz, will be screening at the LA Short Film Festival, Palm Springs Short Film Festival, and several other festivals.

June, 2008

How Life Began, premieres June 16th, 9PM E/P, 8PM Central on the History Channel

March, 2008

Scoring How Life Began, a two hour History Channel documentary (Workaholic Productions)

Coming soon...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mercedes Intersection

Director: Peter Lang Music House: WickedMusic.com Agency: Merkley & Partners, NY

Ruby Wipeout

Director: Harry Dorrington Music House: WickedMusic.com Agency: AMD / ATI Radeon

Minute Monsterpieces

Director: Charlie Largent Producers: Joe Dante, Elizabeth Stanley

Quotes

"Aaron's versatility is matched only by his love of classic music scores, and both are on captivating display in his music for a wide range of subjects."

- Joe Dante, Director (Gremlins, Small Soldiers)

""Haunting and beautiful, Aaron's score captured the tension, scope and ambiguity of the film with nuance and power.""

- Adam Rodgers, Director

"We came to Aaron with a ridiculously tight deadline and enormously big expectations, but Aaron handled it all with grace (& a whole lot of calm) and he gave us and the film something beautiful. Aaron was incredibly collaborative and easy to work with. I would gladly work with him on our next project."

- Sig Libowitz, Producer

"Aaron's music brings so much extra dimension to a movie you could list his melodies in the cast of characters..."

- Charlie Largent, Director

"For our documentary, Beyond the BIg Bang, Aaron had to come up with a musical theme that covered the moment the universe began through to it's demise. With all that drama taking place...Aaron's music not only matched, but enhanced what viewers saw. That's a hell of a challenge!"

- Matt Hickey, Workaholic Productions

Selected recent credits list...

Light Years Away	Feature	starring Eric Roberts, Christopher Knight
Dilemma	Feature	dir. Alex Munoz
How Life Began	Feature Documentary	History Channel / Workaholic Productions
Beyond The Big Bang	Feature Documentary	History Channel / Workaholic Productions
Once upon a Time at Moriah	Documentary	Marc Radomsky
Claiming the Memory	Documentary	Marc Radomsky
Jewish Takeawy	Documentary	Marc Radomsky
The Response	Short Feature	starring Kate Mulgrew, Peter Reigert, Aasif Mandvi, Sig Libowitz. dir. Adam Rodgers
Intersection	Commercial	Mercedes
Ruby	Commercial	ATI / Radion

 

He has also provided music production services to studio projects such as Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Disney), Illegal Tender (Universal), George of the Jungle 2 (Disney), Renny Harlin’s Exorcist: In The Beginning (Warner Bros), Coach Carter (Paramount), the Dreamworks / TNT mini-series Into The West for executive producer Steven Spielberg, including as lead orchestrator for twice Academy nominated composer David Hirschfelder on his score to Five People You Meet In Heaven (Hallmark Entertainment).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Award-winning film composer Aaron Symonds is passionate about both film and music. He combines a sensitivity to the drama of a scene with a knowledge of traditional orchestral techniques, and a strong melodic sensibility. His musical style ranges from the big and epic to the small and intimate, often incorporating elements from various cultures, electronic textures and contemporary classical techniques.

Aaron has scored a diverse range of projects, including feature films, TV series, documentaries and commercials. His most recent projects include “The Response” starring Kate Mulgrew, Peter Reigert and Sig Libowitz, “How Life Began” (History Channel), a Mercedes commercial, a CGI film for AMD / ATI Radeon, an animation for Joe Dante / Elizabeth Stanley, and conducting his music on the Fox Studios scoring stage.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Aaron Symonds grew up in Australia where he studied composition, orchestration, conducting and numerous instruments from an early age. As a teenager he began working on films, TV series and theatre productions for some of Australia’s flagship theatre companies. Several years ago, he moved to Los Angeles where he now resides with his wife, Abigail, his state-of-the-art film scoring studio and his conducting baton.

 

Representation

Agent: Jeff Kaufman, Kaufman Agency

Phone: 818.506.6013

Address: 12007 Laurel Terrace, Studio City, CA 91604

Email: jhk@pacbell.net

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