15 new composers

This post is cribbed from Mikael Carlsson's recent posting on FILMUS-L. I hope he doesn't mind my reprinting it here (especially since he no longer has a blog of his own). Mikael suggests the following:

BENJAMIN WALLFISCH
I can reveal to you that my label will release Benjamin Wallfisch's
first feature film score, for the Danish film "Dear Wendy" on April
18, on iTunes. He is the most brilliant young composer I have come
across in recent time, and I am particularly blown away by his
concert music. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to locate any
samples online, so you'll have to wait until my album comes out - or
go and rent the DVD of "Dear Wendy". You can read more about Benjamin
at http://imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=7&c=2 and
http://www.air-edel.co.uk/roster/bwallfisch.htm#artist_top. Some of
you might recognise Benjamin's name from one of your recent
soundtrack booklets - he is also the orchestrator and conductor of
Dario Marianelli's recent scores, including Brothers Grimm, Pride and
Prejudice and V for Vendetta.

JOHN KAEFER - http://www.composerjohn.com/
Another young composer who I discovered through his concert music. I
was particularly impressed by his work "Mosaic"
(http://www.composerjohn.com/music/orchestra/mosaic.html) and the
brief but exciting "Fracture"
(http://www.composerjohn.com/music/orchestra/fracture.html).
He has only written a few low budget film scores, but he is very
promising. I don't think that you will be able to get hold of any of
his music at this point, though. But check out the samples of his
concert music on his web site.

CEIRI TORJUSSEN - http://www.ceiri.com/
Welsh composer who has worked as an orchestrator and assistant to
Marco Beltrami. Another one who has done some very exciting concert
music. You can find a wealth of samples on his web site. Be sure to
listen to his concert music, that's where his talent really shines
(check out "Blodeuwedd" and " ). In terms of film credits, he has
only done a few thing on his own so far: Funky Monkey and Dracula
III: The Legacy. He's got several interesting things in the pipeline,
though.

SCOTT GLASGOW - www.scottglasgowmusic.com/
Exciting composer who has worked for Ed Shearmur, Chris Young and
Elia Cmiral among others. On his own, he has scored Chasing Ghosts
and the recent Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles. Both are very cool,
highly dramatic orchestral scores. Go to
http://www.scottglasgowmusic.com/SGMusic.htm and you will find a lot
of great samples of his music! And... I begin to see a pattern here:
the guy also writes for the concert hall!

EDWIN WENDLER - http://www.edwinwendler.com/
I first came across him when Film Music Magazine sent out a double CD
promo featuring works by various up and coming composers. He had
written a Rozsa-esque adventure piece that I found very rewarding. He
deserves to get some real gigs, but so far his only feature film
score is a low budget thing called Home: The Horror Story. That's a
very funny score, on the other hand. Elfman-wacky, sort of. There are
four samples of Edwin's music at
http://home.earthlink.net/~edwinwendler/music.html. "Consolatio" is a
really beautiful classical, uplifting choral/orchestral piece.

JEFF GRACE - http://www.tummomusic.com
Here is another composer I'm actually going to release music by.
Jeff's score for the low budget horror film The Roost, including a
small suite from his latest score for another horror film (Joshua),
will be available on MovieScore Media soon. Jeff has worked as an
assistant to Howard Shore, including all the Lord of the Rings
scores, and he shows a lot of promise. Has a knack for
experimentation and avant garde techniques. Visit
http://www.tummomusic.com/demo.htm to listen to his demo tracks - I
think he's great!

CHRISTOPHER TIN - http://www.christophertin.com
Promising youngster who has been working on scores by Joel McNeely,
Hans Zimmer and John Ottman. Christopher's orchestral writing is
quite striking, check out his samples at
http://www.christophertin.com/samples.html. He recently wrote the
score for computer game Civilization 4, but haven't done any solo
feature film scores yet.

H. SCOTT SALINAS - http://www.salinasmusic.com/
As you probably know, he is one of the past winners of the TCM
competition, and he's currently getting a lot of scoring assignments.
He co-composed the score for Edison and wrote new music for the
silents The Red Lily and The Squaw Man. Check out the samples on his
web site - several of those tracks are very impressive. The end
credits music from Edison is really original, for instance (the final
30 seconds has a wonderful Goldsmith feel). Very promising composer.

CHRISTOPHER SLASKI - http://www.christopherslaski.com/
A brilliant composer who divides his time between work in Spain and
the UK. He wrote the music for a Spanish film called "Semen: Una
historia de amor" (don't laugh) and also "The Piano Tuner of
Earthquakes" and "Beyond the Sea" (Kevin Spacey's film). He's got a
very personal, orchestral style. He wrote a brilliant concert work,
"Frank Lloyd Wright Suite" too. There are some samples on his web
site, but they were a bit difficult to find. You will have to click
on the different titles in his resume, and sometimes they are linked
to a page with samples, sometimes they go directly to imdb.

ALEX HEFFES - http://www.alexheffes.com
UK composer who actually has a few albums out already - very
beautiful romantic score for Dear Frankie and a highly entertaining
comedy score for Patrole Officer - check them out. You can listen to
sample tracks on his web site. Alex has a terrific timing. I will
release one of his recent scores on MovieScore Media in May: Vet Hard
(aka Too Fat, Too Furious), a hilarious action comedy score. I think
you will enjoy it!

CHRIS TILTON - http://www.christilton.com
Those of you who are familiar with Michael Giacchino obviously knows
this guy. Thanks to his music for Mercenaries, Black and Alias: The
Game he already has a fan base. Check out the huge selection of
samples on his web site - http://www.christilton.com/music.htm.

GEORGE SHAW - http://www.georgeshawmusic.com/
Check out his orchestral music on the sample page:
http://www.georgeshawmusic.com/ - and enjoy! George has a wonderful
"classic film music" style. He has orchestrated stuff for John
Ottman, David Kitay and, incidentally, Scott Glasgow (see above). His
own scores include horror film Marcus and The Kidnapping of Ingrid
Bettancourt.

RICHARD JACQUES - http://www.richardjacques.co.uk
British composer who blew me away with his score for the computer
game Headhunter a couple of years ago. He has also written the music
for the Starship Troopers game and it's a big, wonderful orchestral
score filled with all of the excitement you would expect from such a
title. You can listen to several of his compositions at
http://www.richardjacques.co.uk/downloads.html - he has not done many
film scores yet, though.

EVAN EVANS - http://www.evanevans.org/
Yep, the son of legendary jazz pianist Bill Evans! He's got a cool
web site with a wealth of material on film music - this is a very
passionate guy! He's a very versatile composer who has written some
cool horror music (Killers and Hunting Humans, the latter pretty
Herrmann-esque). I wasn't able to find any samples on his web site
though...

MARCUS SJÖWALL - http://www.sjowallmusic.com
Just breaking into the business, the winner of last year's TCM
competition. Has been working with composer Steve Edwards. The music
he wrote for Souls for Sale, the TCM silent, was absolutely brilliant
- a very fresh sound. A few samples of his previous works are
available http://www.sjowallmusic.com/index.htm