Interviews with Composers

Interview with Harry Gregson-Williams

English composer of the Shrek films, The Chronicles of Narnia, Kingdom of Heaven, The Martian and Gladiator II, and of Metal Gear Solid and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

Interview with Dario Marianelli

Composer born in Pisa, Italy, known for Pride & Prejudice, Atonement, Anna Karenina, Paddington 2 and Bumblebee. He won the Oscar for Atonement.

Interview with Austin Wintory

American composer of game scores including Journey, ABZU, The Banner Saga and Assassin's Creed Syndicate, and of more than 60 feature films.

Interview with Garry Schyman

American composer who scored 1980s TV such as The A-Team, then games including Destroy All Humans!, BioShock and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor. He teaches game scoring at USC.

Interview with John Debney

Composer of Elf, Liar Liar, The Princess Diaries, Iron Man 2 and The Jungle Book, Oscar-nominated for The Passion of the Christ and a four-time Emmy winner.

Interview with Laura Karpman

Composer for film and television, Oscar-nominated for American Fiction, with scores for The Marvels and Lovecraft Country, and founder of the Alliance for Women Film Composers.

Interview with Siddhartha Khosla

American composer of This Is Us and Only Murders in the Building, and singer and producer of the band Goldspot. He won an Emmy in 2024.

Interview with James Newton Howard

Film composer who began as a keyboardist with Elton John, known for Pretty Woman, The Fugitive, The Sixth Sense, The Hunger Games films and Batman Begins.

Interview with Shaun Chasin

Canadian composer for film, TV and video games, based in Los Angeles. Credits include Way of the Turtle, PUBG Mobile, Domino: Battle of the Bones and the Beyblade Burst theme "Our Time".

Interview with Jody Gray

Composer, songwriter and producer who co-scored Courage the Cowardly Dog with Andy Ezrin. His credits also include Digimon: Digital Monsters and Space Racers.

Interview with Thomas Newman

Film composer and son of Alfred Newman, known for The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, Skyfall and 1917.

Interview with Gustavo Santaolalla

Argentine musician, producer and composer who won Oscars for Brokeback Mountain and Babel and wrote the music for The Last of Us game and series.

Interview with Dara Taylor

Dara Taylor has emerged as a fresh voice in the world of scoring music to picture as evidenced by her NAACP Image Award-Nominated score to Marvel Studios Ironheart, produced by Ryan Coogler, and Amazon Studios’s film The Tender Bar, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker George Clooney.

She recently scored the AppleTV+ Ben Stiller-produced comedy The Dink, the Taraji P. Henson drama Straw, Netflix’s Meet Me Next Christmas for which she received a 2025 SCL Award Nomination and 2025 BMI Award, Netflix and Shondaland’s Black Barbie, Universal Pictures’s comedy Strays starring Will Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, Sony Pictures/Screen Gems’ The Invitation for which she received a 2023 SCL Award Nomination, and Netflix’s The Noel Diary directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Charles Shyer.