JOLENE KHOR
Jolene Khor is an award winning composer and pianist, attracting recognition for her whimsical and aesthetics driven compositions, reminiscent of the style popularised by studio Ghibli in Japan. Indeed, it is her love of music, that inspired her to study Composition, which led to her receiving a Bachelor's Degree in 2021 from Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, and a Master's Degree in Composition for Screen in 2022 from the Royal College of Music in London.
Jolene brings her classical music and jazz training, together with her passion for Japanese and Chinese aesthetics, to create a satisfying blend of East and West, of classical music and popular instrumentation. This passion served her well during her studies when she collaborated with young filmmakers, animators and musicians from the London Film School, Royal College of Arts, Central Saint Martins as well as at the Royal College of Music where she was trained in managing recording sessions. Jolene has also recorded her music at Air Edel, Abbey Road recording studios and the Budapest recording studio.
Jolene is a founding member of the Composers in a Jukebox podcast where she and her colleagues discuss composition, orchestration and conducting with industry professionals. She also composes original music for the podcasts HighRollers DnD, The Writer's Room 7th Sea, DistalsPlace and The Storyteller Squad.
Jolene has conducted orchestras and chamber groups as part of her work in recording sessions. She was also hired to conduct the Queen Charlotte Orchestra during the Netflix organised promotional concert at Covent Garden on the 13th of May 2023.
LINKS
DARREN SNG
Darren Sng is London-based composer and conductor born in Singapore, who specialises in writing music for film and media. Having been occasionally talked out of writing overly ambitious music in his earlier years as a composer, his current artistic direction remains ironically driven by a stubborn urge to challenge instrumental and musical conventions in extreme yet meaningful ways.
Versatility is a word that suitably describes Darren’s artistic output, seeing him through various genres of film music from orchestral, experimental electronic, to popular genres. He was nominated at the 2020 International Pannonia Film Music Competition, and has since scored films which have received a generous number of selections at festivals including Raindance Film Festival, Los Angeles Short Film Festival, Sundance Collab, Indie Short Fest, New York Flash Film Festival, Changing Face International Film Festival, Southern Shorts Awards, and the Oscar-qualifying In the Palace International Short Film Festival.
Darren’s passion for multi-disciplinary art forms also extends into his work as a concert composer. He has spent the past year working on two chamber operas - “My Days as a Zombie on Earth” staged by Tête-à-Tête Opera in collaboration with the Royal College of Music, and “Livestream: @friendlyfisherman meets giant talking SEASHELL!! ;o” commissioned by the Singapore Lyric Opera.
Darren is a two-time recipient of the Elgar Memorial Prize in Composition (2020 and 2022), and is currently on a postgraduate course in composing at the National Film and Television School.
LINKS
LEVENT ALTUNTAS
Levent Altuntas is a German composer from Frankfurt, currently based in London. He started playing the violin at the age of six and started composing shortly thereafter. While in high school, he was a composition student of Prof. Claus Kühnl at the renowned Hoch Conservatory.
In 2014 he began his studies at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts under the tutelage of composer and music theorist Prof. Ernst August Klötzke where he graduated with a thesis about Don Davis' score for the 1999 film The Matrix. He then relocated to London to pursue a Master of Music degree in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music, where he was also a John Barry Scholar for Film Composition. His principal study teachers included Prof Howard Davidson, Prof Filip Šijanec and Dr Dimitri Scarlato. He graduated in 2022 with distinction.
Levent's music has been recorded and performed internationally by high-caliber ensembles and orchestras, such as the Staatskapelle Halle, The Twiolins, the Carducci Quartet, the Landesjugendorchester Bremen, the Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt, the Rheingauer Filmsymphoniker and the Mainhattan Strings .
In 2019 he was commissioned by Stark Entertainment to arrange music from MARVEL superhero movies for live performances at both the Avengers exhibit and the Thunder Theater, one of Europe's biggest movie theaters, as part of CCXP Cologne. In the same year he also received a nomination for the German Gamemusic Award.
His most recent projects include orchestrations for several high profile productions, scores for numerous short films as well as the feature film "World Order" (dir. Roberto Puzzo) which premiered in late 2021.
LINKS
LUKE MOMBREA
Luke Mombrea is a composer originally from Oakland, California now based in London, England. His music ranges from concert works drawing from minimalism, folk music and electroacoustic music, to generative spatial sound works, to scores for film and television.
Luke’s scores can be heard in a variety of mediums. He has scored numerous award-winning short films, features, documentaries, television series, dance performances, art installations, and written for professional and student orchestras around the country.
Luke composed the score and sound design for Culver Current, a digital light sculpture commissioned for Culver City Hall. Luke also scored the digital art installation Night Wave, which featured at Art Basel.
In addition to his installation work, his score for the ballet, The Knight, premiered in London at the Wallace Collection’s historic Great Gallery.
He has orchestrated the most recent seasons of Endeavour and Grace on ITV as well as Rose: Signs for Change, a documentary which premiered on BBC One. His orchestrations have been recorded at Abbey Road, AIR and Angel Studios in London. He has also provided music preparation for large scale projects such as Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Emancipation and Silo.
Luke has scored numerous award-winning films including Juliet, an AFI-produced film that was screened at the Cannes Film Festival and Game Day, a feature film which can be found on Amazon Prime. He also recently completed the score for the HBO development pilot Point Unknown.
Luke recently graduated with distinction from the Royal College of Music, London with a Master of Music in Composition.