Studio Soundtracks takes listeners behind the scenes of how music is crafted for film and television by hearing directly from composers, songwriters and music professionals in the Entertainment Industry. Listen to inspiring conversations about composition and hear works from Emmy, Grammy, and Oscar-winning film scores on the show.

AMELIA WARNER
Breakthrough neo-classical composer Amelia Warner is best known for her stunning soundtrack for the 2018 Irish-American film ‘Mary Shelley’, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and starring Elle Fanning. It won Amelia the ‘Breakthrough Composer of The Year’ at the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards in 2019, and a nomination in the ‘Discovery of the Year’ category at the World Soundtrack Awards. Forthcoming, is Warner’s highly anticipated score for John Patrick Shanley’s ‘Wild Mountain Thyme,’ which will be released on December 11, 2020.

Growing up in west London’s Notting Hill, Amelia loved to play piano in her family home. Although resisting traditional classical training, she would constantly invent melodies, and her first proper composition, at 15, was for a school soap-opera project. It would be many years before anyone heard Amelia’s evocative instrumental compositions. Her first career was as an actress, following in her mother Annette Ekblom’s footsteps. She knew she wanted to be part of the filmmaking and storytelling process, but quickly realized she was on the wrong side of it.

Her debut major scoring project was the British short film ‘Mam’ which won several awards on the film-festival circuit and led to her first feature-film composition, for 2016’s ‘Mum’s List’, starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox.
Warner has also released three solo classical albums to date—the most recent EP ‘Haven,’ was released in summer 2020. The home-inspired ‘Haven’ was coincidently released at a time when home was the epicentre for people thrown into months of lockdown in the midst of the global pandemic. Her previous solo EP ‘Visitors’ (2017) followed her debut EP ‘Arms’ (2015). Warner’s three EP releases have all reached #1 classical album on the iTunes chart.

DUSTIN O’HALLORAN
Dustin O’Halloran is an American pianist and composer with four acclaimed solo albums under his own name, and a member of the band A Winged Victory for the Sullen. Winner of a 2015 Emmy Award for his main title theme to Amazon’s comedy drama Transparent, he was also nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA, and a Critics’ Choice Award for his score to 2016’s Lion, written in collaboration with Volker Bertelmann (aka Hauschka). O’Halloran’s film career began when Sofia Coppola invited him to contribute to 2006’s Marie Antoinette, and since then he’s worked on multiple films and TV shows, including Drake Doremus’ Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, Like Crazy (2011), and Marc Turtletaub’s Puzzle (2018), where he collaborated with veteran Scandinavian chart-topper Ane Brun for the film’s closing song. In 2018, he scored George Tillman Jr.’s The Hate U Give and joined forces with Bryan Senti for Nick Murphy’s six-part Sky TV series, Save Me, while he and Bertelmann also reconvened that year for Netflix’s The Old Guard, starring Charlize Theron. He and Bertelmann continue to collaborate, scoring the BBC’s 2019 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Francis Lee’s Ammonite, recently released by NEON.

O’Halloran released his first EP for renowned classical musical label Deutsche Grammophon in 2019, with a new album currently in the works, and A Winged Victory for the Sullen, his ambient orchestral project with Adam Wiltzie, released their latest album, The Undivided Five, on Ninja Tune the same year. In addition, O’Halloran worked as a producer for Katy Perry’s ‘Into Me You See,’ from her 2017 album, Witness, and appears on Leonard Cohen’s 2019 posthumous album, Thanks for the Dance. O’Halloran lives in Los Angeles and Reykjavik, Iceland.

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