About Simon & Composing Academy
I have had a passion for writing music since I was in my early teens. I was lucky enough to have an amazing Music Department at Secondary School, which helped me enter into the world of composing.
However, for years I struggled with composing music. My computer was littered with DAW project files of short ideas I had written, but never finished.
8 bars of a melody here, a chord progression there, random string ostinatos, with some percussion accompanying them.
I knew I needed to further my education to gain knowledge & experience in this field if I wanted to become a composer & make money!
After studying for a composition degree at the Royal College of Music in London, I then continued my education on the world renowned Scoring for Motion Pictures and TV program at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
It was there that I started learning how to take those initial ideas and develop them further, along with the mockup and production techniques I needed to give my music a polished sound.
From there my career began. I left college and immediately went into an internship working at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Studios before moving to an assistant role for Christopher Young.
I returned to the UK from Los Angeles in 2011 with the passion and drive to continue my career as a film composer.
Over the past 12 years I have been part of projects, written for libraries as well as film & taught. My true passion is passing on my knowledge to others and helping them start in the composing world.
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