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.

ARIEL MARX

An Emmy- nominated composer and multi-instrumentalist, Ariel Marx draws from many genres and often combines orchestral and rare instruments with electronics to create unique worlds of sound. Her scores have premiered in films at Sundance, TIFF, SXSW, Tribeca, Woodstock, Criterion Channel, as well as films and shows on Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, FX, HBO, Mubi, Discovery+ and more. She is a member of the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, and is a Sundance Film Music and Sound Design Lab alumn.

Some of Ariel’s most recent projects include Disney+/ABC series A Small Light , Neon’s Sanctuary, UCP/Peacock’s A Friend of the Family, UCP/Hulu’s Candy (ranked number 3 in Indiewire’s Best TV scores of 2022), and FX/Hulu’s American Horror Stories. Her other works for film and television also include Utopia’s Shiva Baby, HBO’s The Tale, Shudder’s Birth/Rebirth, Magnolia’s Next Exit, Discovery+’s Rebel Hearts, Amazon’s Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer, FX/Hulu’s Children of the Underground, and Good Deed Entertainments To Dust, among others. As a solo artist, Ariel recently released her solo album Luthier with Node Records.

TONY MORALES

EMMY-nominated composer Tony Morales is known for his sweeping symphonic scores and textural cinematic sound for feature films and television. His orchestral compositions range from dramas and crime thrillers to documentaries, comedies, and animation.

His work includes countless hours of music for television on shows such as Amazon Prime’s Reacher, Eva Longoria: Searching For Mexico on CNN and the NBC heist thriller The Endgame. His latest project is Netflix’s Fubar, a spy action comedy series starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in his live-action television debut.

Morales has composed music for several documentaries including the Eva Longoria directed feature documentary La Guerra Civil which premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival which he was EMMY-nominated for “Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score)” this year. He also wrote the music for 30 For 30’s The Dominican Dream which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and tells the story of young immigrant Felipe Lopez, the “Dominican Michael Jordan”.

Morales earned a Primetime EMMY nomination for the mini-series Hatfields & McCoys (co-composed with John Debney). He is also known for his score on all three seasons of Disney’s Elena Of Avalor for which he received multiple Daytime EMMY nominations as well as an Annie Award nomination. For the music of Elena he mixed various Latin music genres, as well as instrumentation, with the traditional Disney orchestral sound. Tony has collaborated on several projects writing additional music for titles such as Iron Man 3, Fast Five, The Change-Up and Now You See Me.

Born in Southern California, Morales grew up all over the US and now resides in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.

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