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.
December, 2009
The Response has advanced to the top 10 live action short films category in the Academy Awards. Nominations will be announced Feb 2nd.
Nature's Greatest Defender is premiering on National Geographic Channel 10pm EST, Sat, Dec 12th, 2009.
October - November, 2009
Scoring Splatter, a three part horror web series for Netflix, directed by Joe Dante. Produced by Julie Corman and Elizabeth Stanley, New Horizons (Roger Corman)
October, 2009
Scored a commercial for Comcast.
September, 2009
Scored Nature's Greatest Defender, a National Geographic documentary .
Narrated by Glenn Close, directed and produced by Thomas Veltre and Cathe Neukum, The Really Interesting Picture Company
Coming soon...
Comcast Triple Rewards |
Director: Rob Linsalata |
Mercedes Intersection |
Director: Peter Lang |
Ruby Wipeout |
| Director: Harry Dorrington Music House: WickedMusic.com Agency: AMD / ATI Radeon |
Minute Monsterpieces |
| Director: Charlie Largent Producers: Joe Dante, Elizabeth Stanley |
"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 contributed to studio projects such as Beverly Hills Chihuahua (Disney), Curious George 2 (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 "Man Who Saves The Wild" (National Geographic), "The Response" starring Kate Mulgrew, Peter Reigert and Sig Libowitz, several (History Channel) documentaries, 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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| Telly Award (Music) |
| Beyond the Big Bang (Documentary) |
Agent: Jeff Kaufman Kaufman Agency
Phone: 818.506.6013 12007 Laurel Terrace, Studio City, CA 91604 Email: jhk@pacbell.net