List of female film score composers
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Hildur Guðnadóttir was born on 4 September 1982 in Iceland. She is a composer, known for Joker (2019), Women Talking (2022) and Tár (2022). She is married to Sam Slater. They have one child.- Composer
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Mica Levi is a musician and composer born in Guildford, UK and living in South East London.
She has previously written music for films including Under The Skin (2014, dir. Jonathan Glazer), Jackie (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín), Monos (2018, dir. Alejandro Landes), Zola (2020, dir. Janicza Bravo) and Mangrove (2020, dir. Steve McQueen).- Composer
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Neo-classical composer Amelia Warner is known for her work on 'Mary Shelley,' 'Wild Mountain Thyme,' 'Mr. Malcom's List,' and the upcoming Jerry Bruckheimer produced film 'Young Woman and the Sea,' starring Daisy Ridley.
Her stunning orchestral scores infused with electronic elements have led to several awards, including Breakthrough Composer of The Year' at the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA) Awards, and nominations in the 'Discovery of the Year' category at the World Soundtrack Awards, a Hollywood Music in Media Award, and recognition as a nominee for the ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards.
In 2018 she scored the Irish-American film 'Mary Shelley', directed by Haifaa al-Mansour and starring Elle Fanning. For this score Warner created "otherworldly music for an orchestra haunted by ethereal female vocals."
Warner scored John Patrick Shanley's 'Wild Mountain Thyme,' which also featured an original song "I'll Be Singing" co-written by Warner and Shanley and performed by Sinead O'Connor.
In 2022, she wrote a contemporary classical score for the period romantic comedy 'Mr. Malcolm's List', in which her love theme was used to choreograph and film a grandiose ballroom scene in the film.
Growing up in west London's Notting Hill, Amelia loved to play piano in her family home. Although resisting traditional classical training, she would constantly invent melodies, and her first proper composition, at 15, was for a school soap-opera project. It would be many years before anyone heard Amelia's evocative instrumental compositions. Her first career was as an actress, following in her mother Annette Ekblom's footsteps. She knew she wanted to be part of the filmmaking and storytelling process, but quickly realized she was on the wrong side of it.
Her debut major scoring project was the British short film 'Mam' which won several awards on the film-festival circuit and led to her first feature-film composition, for 2016's 'Mum's List', starring Rafe Spall and Emilia Fox.
Warner has also released three solo classical albums to date-the most recent EP 'Haven,' was released in summer 2020. The home-inspired 'Haven' was coincidentally released at a time when home was the epicentre for people thrown into months of lockdown in the midst of the global pandemic. Her previous solo EP 'Visitors' (2017) followed her debut EP 'Arms' (2015). Warner's three EP releases have all reached #1 on the iTunes classical album charts.- Dulcie Holland is known for Pearlers of the Coral Sea (1960), The Shearers (1950) and The Melbourne Wedding Belle (1953).
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Dolores Claman was born on 6 July 1927 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was a composer, known for The Love Guru (2008), The Many Saints of Newark (2021) and Captain Apache (1971). She was married to Richard Morris and Richard Morri. She died on 17 July 2021 in Spain.- Composer
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British composer Rachel Portman became the first female composer to win an Academy Award, which she received for the score of Emma. She was also the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, which she received for the film, Bessie. She has received two further Academy Nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination. Rachel was given an OBE in 2010 and is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. She's also a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. Rachel has written stage and concert commissions including a musical of Little House on the Prairie, and an opera of Saint Exupery's, The Little Prince for Houston Grand Opera. For the BBC Proms, she wrote The Water Diviner, a dramatic choral symphony. She also wrote 'Endangered' performed at the World Environment Day Concert, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing. Other works include Earth Song for the BBC Singers, a solo piano album Ask The River and most recently for Joyce Di Donato, The First Morning of the World as part of her Eden programme.- Composer
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Laura Rossi has written music extensively for film and television, including the critically acclaimed London to Brighton, The Eichmann Show, starring Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia, Song for Marion, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp, and Hurricane directed by David Blair.
She has also scored many silent films including the British Film Institute's Silent Shakespeare and Jane Shore, and the famous IWM 1916 film The Battle of the Somme and The Battle of the Ancre. Laura has been commissioned to write numerous concert works including Voices of Remembrance, a choral/orchestral work, commissioned to mark the Centenary of the First World War, which features war poems read by Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave.
In 2016/17 she was artistic director for Somme100 FILM, a worldwide project coordinating 100 live orchestral performances of her score for the 1916 film, The Battle of the Somme. The project was attended by an audience of over 37,000 people, involved over 4,200 musicians, and was televised live on BBC1 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
In 2017, Laura was made an Academy Member for 'exceptional accomplishment in the field of theatrical motion pictures.' Her music has been recorded and performed worldwide by the Philharmonia Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Her works have been performed at the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Laura has spoken about film music at many festivals and regularly gives masterclasses at colleges and universities, and is lecturer for film music at the London Film Academy.- Producer
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Rika Muranaka is a Japanese-born composer and music producer renown for her songs in Konami's world-famous video game series, Metal Gear Solid.
Some of her most distinguished works include "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Metal Gear Solid), "Can't Say Goodbye to Yesterday" (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty), and "Don't Be Afraid" (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater). She also composed the song "I Am the Wind" for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and the song "Esperándote" for the original Silent Hill.
During her teens, Rika Muranaka left her native Tokyo to study jazz piano with jazz pianist and author Alan Swain in Chicago, USA. At the age of 16, she started to write music for herself.
After graduating from Northeastern Illinois University, Rika Muranaka returned to Japan and was signed a deal with Columbia Records, a major Japanese record company, in 1992. She released 4 albums with Columbia Records. Rika Muranaka composed music for commercials, advertising, the Japanese government and created demos for multimedia companies in Japan. She also developed pre-programmed beats and sounds for Casio electronic keyboards and produced music for educational materials.
Fascinated by the game industry, Rika Muranaka started to work for Konami in 1997. She wanted to change the standard for music in the game industry, because at the time many thought that video game music was simple and low quality. Her first projects at Konami were songs for Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and Silent Hill, where she worked together with Akira Yamaoka, another Japanese video game composer.
Konami led her to a 17-year long working relationship with Hideo Kojima on the Metal Gear Solid game series.
While working on Metal Gear Solid 2, Rika Muranaka brought in film composer Harry Gregson-Williams into the video game industry to work on the games, and was one of the first to involve film composers into the development of video game music.
At Konami she had not only composed music and written lyrics for some of the most popular video game songs, but also produced and edited music, arranged budget, hired musicians and orchestra needed to produce the music for Metal Gear Solid game series. She also brought in jazz musicians, such as Gerald Albright, Kevin Eubanks and Hubert Laws, to create music for the game series.
Despite being fond of writing for games, Rika Muranaka gradually developed passion to writing music for films, television and animation. After ending her work relationship with Konami, Rika Muranaka to working on her own projects, such as a drift reality show Hollywood Dream and her own business RnD Entertainment, both being a collaboration with Grammy and American Music Awards winning music producer Damien "E-Love" Matthias, and composing and producing music for films.- Composer
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Eva Gancedo is known for Lucky Star (1997), La reina Isabel en persona (2000) and Burn with Me (2002).- Actress
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Elena Charbila has an established track record as a composer, producer and recording artist under her moniker "Kid Moxie." A blend of powerful beats, noir pop melodies, and haunting soundscapes make Kid Moxie's music both ethereal and engrossing. She has written original score and songs for several acclaimed TV shows and films including composing the music for MGM's iconic new ORION logo (2022). "I like to call my music 'cinematic pop'", she explains. That's hardly a surprise, coming from someone whose credits include penning songs for the iconic Cyberpunk 2077 video game, the XBOX game Forza Horizon, as well as creating the retro-futuristic soundtrack to the 2020 indie film "Not To Be Unpleasant But We Need To Have A Serious Talk" (Lakeshore Records) and the dystopic score of "On Xerxes Throne" (dir. Evi Kalogiropoulou, Cannes 2022). CNN recently mentioned Kid Moxie as a female composer worthy of Oscar attention. Her musical collaborations are diverse and unexpected. From producing and singing with the legendary Depeche Mode on their most recent album, to joining forces with David Lynch's composer Angelo Badalamenti, with whom she created a new version of "Mysteries of Love," her career path is unique and her sound is identifiable. Some of her most recent work includes composing for limited TV series "Milky Way" (directed by Cannes Award winning director Vasilis Kekatos), creating songs for Netflix hit TV show "Maestro In Blue" and releasing her neon-noir EP "Lust" with iconic label Italians Do It Better, founded by acclaimed producer/ composer Johnny Jewel (Drive, Twin Peaks, Lost River).
Entertainment Weekly hailed her as a "cinematic pop star", VICE called her music "eerie, celestial, odd and exquisite", while US VOGUE praised her sound as "retro-futuristic goodness" .- Actress
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Brittany Allen is a multi-disciplinary artist: an Emmy-winning actor and film composer. She was raised in Toronto, Canada where she began acting at an early age. After graduating from Sheridan College for musical theatre, Allen was cast in All My Children. She went on to win an Emmy for her role. Following her time on the soap, Allen became known for her roles in Jigsaw, What Keeps You Alive and The Boys.
Allen's first theatrical score was for the critically acclaimed film What Keeps You Alive. She has since gone on to score for American Horror Stories, Two Sentence Horror Stories, Torn Hearts (Blumhouse); Scrambled (Lionsgate). She lives in Los Angeles with her partner and frequent collaborator, filmmaker Colin Minihan and their son.- Composer
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Anna Calvi is known for The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015), Peaky Blinders (2013) and The Souvenir (2019).