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.

FREDERIK WIEDMANN
Emmy-award winning Frederik Wiedmann is one of the most diverse and cultivated composers working in motion pictures today. With over 150 titles to his name in all realms and genres, Wiedmann has established himself as insightful artist with an enduring passion for storytelling. Recently, Wiedmann composed music for Star Trek: Picard (Season 3) for Paramount+, Women is Losers starring Simu Liu, which premiered at SXWX in early 2021. Some of his other recent credits include the thrillerAlone (starring Donald Sutherland and Tyler Posey), Hangman(directed by Johnny Martin, starring Al Pacino, Karl Urban, Brittany Snow), Millennium Films’s Acts of Vengeance (featuring Antonio Banderas, Paz Vega and Karl Urban), and Day of the Dead: Bloodline (starring Sophie Skelton and Jonahon Schaech).His credits also include Universal’s “Doom – Annihilation” as well as the epic civil war drama Field of Lost Shoes (directed by Sean McNamara), Paul Schrader’s feature Dying of the Light,The Damned, Blumhouse’s hit horror anthology “Into The Dark” (for hulu), and the Australian Sci-Fi hit “Occupation: Rainfall” (2021). Wiedmann is the composer behind the hit Nickelodeon show Big Nate, as well as the critically acclaimed Netflix animated fantasy series The Dragon Prince, which is from the writers of the popular series Avatar: The Last Airbender, for which he earned an Emmy nomination in the original score category. In 2016, he won a Daytime Emmy Award in the category of “Outstanding Original Song” alongside lyricist Mitch Watson, for the song “True Bromance” from Dreamworks Animation’s Madagascar spinoff All Hail King Julien. Wiedmann has been a main stay in the DC cinematic universe, starting with his work onGreen Lantern: The Animated Series, for which he earned two consecutive Annie Awards nominations. His success on the series led to further popular Warner Bros’ DC projects such as,Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Son of Batman, Death of Superman, Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Batman: Gotham by Gaslight among others. He currently lives in LA with his wife and two wonderful children.

STEPHEN BARTON
Stephen Barton’s extensive credits in film, television and video games include Star Trek: Picard, writing the music for all sixteen seasons of Apex Legends; and penning the scores for both Star Wars: Jedi games, Multiversus, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, 12 Monkeys, and Unlocked, amongst over four dozen other projects. The live service games he has scored (Apex, Multiversus) have over 300 million regular players worldwide. Born in 1982, at the age of eight he won a prestigious scholarship to sing in Winchester Cathedral Choir, touring the world and performing with numerous orchestras and soloists at venues such as Sydney Opera House, Carnegie Hall and the Royal Albert Hall; and appearing on more than a dozen albums. He began his composing career at 19, as an assistant to Harry Gregson-Williams (Shrek, The Chronicles of Narnia, Kingdom of Heaven), moving to Los Angeles from his native UK, in 2001

GORDY HAAB
Gordy Haab is a multi-award-winning film, video game, and television composer who has written music for many well-known titles, including Star Wars: Squadrons, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Microsoft’s Halo Wars 2, and Star Wars: Battlefront I and II, among others. In 2022, Haab was nominated for an International Film Music Critics award for his work on the feature film My Country, My Parents, and was bestowed the inaugural “Music City Maestro” Award by the Society of Composers and Lyricists for his ongoing support of the Nashville music and recording community. In October 2022, his music from Star Wars: Battlefront I and II was featured as part of DICE’s 30th anniversary concert series and performed by the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm.

Haab is known for his unsurpassed understanding of the orchestra as well as his unique ability to blend contemporary and traditional sounds into one – oftentimes conceiving and creating brand new musical instruments to feature in his scores. He has recorded and conducted his music with orchestras from all around the world, including The London Symphony Orchestra, The San Francisco Symphony, The Nashville Symphony and the Hollywood Studio Orchestra.

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