I'm a composer specializing in orchestral, light pop, ambient, and jazz for film and video games. I make my living as a professional musician residing in West Michigan working as a composer and arranger, choral conductor, organist and pianist. I teach full time during the school year and spend my summers working on composition projects. My freelance work involves performing on stage, writing commissioned pieces for concert and church use, creating tracks for general media use, and underscoring larger media projects and documentaries. In addition to these, I bring to my work significant skills in written and oral communication and in the use of computer applications for composition, audio recording and editing, organizational administration, and graphic design. RECORDING/COMPOSING WORK for media 2024 The Nuremberg Raid - Michael Alfano, Brian McDonnell, Timeline Productions [Gap for busy period of performance and full time in teaching] 2013 Goldman-Sachs 10000 Small Businesses video underscoring 2009 Secrets of the Dead (PBS) - The Battle of Stalingrad (Brian McDonnell) 2006 Silent Wings (Rob Child) 2005 Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (Rob Child) 2005 Mythic Blades (Video Game Cartel Games) 2005 Semper Eadem (Rochester FIlm Student, John Stanitz, documentary) 2004 William (Psycho-thriller short for Spread the Poison [London]) 2003 Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny (Rob Child) 2003 SILVER TELLY, VIDEOGRAPHER, AND AURORA AWARDS for "Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue and Gray", "Excellence in Original Music or Use of Music" 2001-2002 Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue and Gray (_Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Rob Child)

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I'm a composer specializing in orchestral, light pop, ambient, and jazz for film and video games. I make my living as a professional musician residing in West Michigan working as a composer and arranger, choral conductor, organist and pianist. I teach full time during the school year and spend my summers working on composition projects. My freelance work involves performing on stage, writing commissioned pieces for concert and church use, creating tracks for general media use, and underscoring larger media projects and documentaries. In addition to these, I bring to my work significant skills in written and oral communication and in the use of computer applications for composition, audio recording and editing, organizational administration, and graphic design. RECORDING/COMPOSING WORK for media 2024 The Nuremberg Raid - Michael Alfano, Brian McDonnell, Timeline Productions [Gap for busy period of performance and full time in teaching] 2013 Goldman-Sachs 10000 Small Businesses video underscoring 2009 Secrets of the Dead (PBS) - The Battle of Stalingrad (Brian McDonnell) 2006 Silent Wings (Rob Child) 2005 Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (Rob Child) 2005 Mythic Blades (Video Game Cartel Games) 2005 Semper Eadem (Rochester FIlm Student, John Stanitz, documentary) 2004 William (Psycho-thriller short for Spread the Poison [London]) 2003 Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny (Rob Child) 2003 SILVER TELLY, VIDEOGRAPHER, AND AURORA AWARDS for "Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue and Gray", "Excellence in Original Music or Use of Music" 2001-2002 Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue and Gray (_Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ Rob Child)

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I’m a composer specializing in orchestral, light pop, ambient, and jazz for film and video games.

I make my living as a professional musician residing in West Michigan working as a composer and arranger, choral conductor, organist and pianist. I teach full time during the school year and spend my summers working on composition projects. My freelance work involves performing on stage, writing commissioned pieces for concert and church use, creating tracks for general media use, and underscoring larger media projects and documentaries. In addition to these, I bring to my work significant skills in written and oral communication and in the use of computer applications for composition, audio recording and editing, organizational administration, and graphic design.

RECORDING/COMPOSING WORK for media

2024 The Nuremberg Raid - Michael Alfano, Brian McDonnell, Timeline Productions
[Gap for busy period of performance and full time in teaching]
2013 Goldman-Sachs 10000 Small Businesses video underscoring
2009 Secrets of the Dead (PBS) - The Battle of Stalingrad (Brian McDonnell)
2006 Silent Wings (Rob Child)
2005 Lincoln and Lee at Antietam: The Cost of Freedom (Rob Child)
2005 Mythic Blades (Video Game Cartel Games)
2005 Semper Eadem (Rochester FIlm Student, John Stanitz, documentary)
2004 William (Psycho-thriller short for Spread the Poison [London])
2003 Gettysburg: Three Days of Destiny (Rob Child)
2003 SILVER TELLY, VIDEOGRAPHER, AND AURORA AWARDS for “Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue and Gray”, “Excellence in Original Music or Use of Music”
2001-2002 Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue and Gray (Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup Rob Child)

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Skills

Cakewalk Sonar
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Camtasia
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Soundtrack

Experience Level

Cakewalk Sonar
Expert
Camtasia
Expert
Instrumental
Expert
Soundtrack
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Education

BA in music at University of Chicago
October 1, 1981 - June 1, 1985
MA in Music Composition at University of Chicago
October 1, 1985 - June 1, 1987

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Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment
    uniE613 Video Game Music - Battle Track 1
    https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-palmer-4/battle-track-1-lengthened
    uniE613 East Asia Theme
    Listen here to this sampler of instruments from the Far East. https://soundcloud.com/nicholas-palmer-4/east-asia-theme
    uniE603 Renaissance Dance Tune
    This is a popular download from my Pond5 library featuring Renaissance instruments, melody and rhythm. music instrumental soundtrack
    uniE603 Magical Theme
    This is a popular download from my Pond5 library - a comic/magical theme for digital orchestra. music instrumental soundtrack
    uniE603 Pond5 library track - Happy Mood 3 - Newmanesque
    This is one of many tracks intended for media use included in my Pond5 library. music instrumental
    uniE603 The Nuremberg Raid (2024) - Quiet underscore sample
    The track is an example of quiet, mysterious underscore. It is volume modulated to sit as is under the audio of the documentary. The Nuremberg Raid (2024) Timeline Productions music instrumental soundtrack

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