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Scoring a new Short

There is new Vampire film in the making, I have just started collaborating with visionary director Mark Williams for the realisation of the short 'Evil Of The Vampires'. Mark has employed an interesting technique of creating animatics so that I c…

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Music Genre

Classical, Choral

Performing Rights Organization

PRS

My website:

http://www.myspace.com/johnkoutselinis_filmmusic

Credits and Experience:

PROFILE
Film music Composer for TV & film scores.
Songwriter, producer,

EDUCATION AND TRAINING INCLUDES:
Studied Piano, Jazz harmony ,and orchestration with Themis Roussos in Athens.
Studying materials included Samuel Adler: the study of orchestration,
Walter Piston: orchestration, Rimsky Korsakov :Principals of orchestration,
Vincent Persichetti: Twentieth century harmony.
Studied music technology-M.I.D.I. recording ,hard disc recording
through programs‘Cubase sx’, ‘Protools’ & ‘Cubase VST’(virtual studio technology).
Studied music for film and T.V. Studying materials included Earle Hagen: Advanced techniques for film scoring

CAREER HISTORY

Songwriter Producer:
Freedom 4 Productions:
1998-2001
Written Songs and produced for various projects of this production company

Composer
1998-today:
Black Storm-2009(Anime)
Temptation-2009 (Feature)
Red Shoes-2008 (Short Film)
Biomechanical (Band)-Cannibalised-2008 (Orchestral Compositions)
Sour Milk-2007(Award Winning Short Film-Jewish London Film Festival)-(Short Film)
Biomechanical-The Empires of the Worlds-2006(Orchestral Compositions)
Biomechanical-Eight Moons-2003 (Orchestral Compositions)
Prince William- Mail On Sunday-2002
Aqua Pura Water Commercial-2002
Orchestral Work-My concert work‘Outbursts of Light and Darkness Parts1&2’
has been selected by SPNM’s panel for future performances.-2001
Fantasticon 2000- Radio Commercial in LA
Sally Brompton-mail On Sunday for ITV-2000
Friends for Sky TV- Eight Jingles produced by Director Mel Smith-1999
Music performance at the Royal Festival Hall: After been selected from over one hundred composers I was asked to compose the music for a short film titled ‘The Reckoning’
This project was created by SPNM and was lead by the film composer Barrington Pheloung.
The music and film was presented at the Royal Festival Hall-1998
Alien 3-TV Trailer for ANT1 TV (Greece)-1998

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Biography

John Koutselinis has been composing dynamic and high quality music for films for many years and has collaborated with Mel Smith-Director(Radioland Murders-Story by George Lucas-Bean, High Heels and Low Lives)for the creation of the Friends jingles on Sky TV (UK), and also composed, orchestrated and produced the music of various commercials for ‘ITV’ and ‘Channel 4’ including Prince William in the ‘Mail on Sunday’, Sally Brompton 2000 in the ‘Mail on Sunday’ and the music of the ‘Aqua Pura’ commercial
Other works include film trailers: Alien 3, The Warriors, and Psycho 2 for Antenna TV.
Just finished composing music for the horror film Temptation (Hicks/Jaggi Films) and started collaborating with Abela Films for two new films which will be realised this Summer.
Also composed was the music for the Fantasticon Sci-fi convention. A very successful collaboration with John Paladin (the organiser of numerous sci-fi conventions) led to the realisation of a very exiting campaign comprising of Radio commercials broadcasted in Los Angeles.
His concert work for a full symphony orchestra titled ‘Outbursts of Light and Darkness Parts1&2’ has been selected by SPNM’s panel for future performances. This is the second collaboration with the Society for the Promotion of New Music.
The first collaboration was when John won a competition for a film music project lead by the Inspector Morse Composer Barrington Pheloung. The film and music was presented at the Royal Festival Hall (UK)
John also composed the music for two short films in 2008. ‘Red Shoes’ and the award winning ‘Sour Milk’(2008).

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Scoring a new Short

There is new Vampire film in the making,

I have just started collaborating with visionary director Mark Williams for the realisation of the short 'Evil Of The Vampires'.

Mark has employed an interesting technique of creating animatics so that I can work on the music before the actual filming.

This is a sc… Continue

Posted on September 13, 2009 at 5:33am —

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At 11:51pm on September 4, 2009, S.Koray Özçelik said…: FANTASTIC, GREAT, SUPERB MUSICIANSHIP...OHHH I DO LOVE YOUR MUSIC...VERY IMPRESSIVE CREATIONS...

At 4:55pm on September 4, 2009, Jim Hughes said…: Great music John! How would you feel about us using a short clip from "Red Shoes" for the Independent Media Pros promo film we are doing on the site? I think it would be a perfect addition to the score. If you're ok with that just upload it to our storage folder at http://www.4shared.com/account/dir/19326497/48d4adf8/sharing.html?rnd=37

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At 9:53am on September 4, 2009, Switch Theory said…: Fantastic music John!

At 5:18pm on August 6, 2009, Razbaque Dirge said…: 8)>

At 1:27pm on August 1, 2009, ray waddington said…: Welcome to our site John! We are glad to have you here, please upload some of your music when you get a chance.