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Meet Italian Film Composer & Pianist Alberto Bellavia
Alberto Bellavia is a multi-award winning Italian film composer and pianist. His recent works include the original music for "History Of Now," a play written and directed by English author Jayson F.A. Bartlett, and the film score for "E Ci Ridiamo un po' Su," a short...

Marcel Barsotti and the future of digital music albums & soundtracks
Marcel Barsotti is one of the most successful German film composers. He has written the music for over a hundred cinema, television films and commercials (including Die Päpstin, Deutschland. Ein Sommermärchen, Jesus liebt mich), and has published 40 music albums. He...

Creation of the music video “Der Steppenwolf”
In 2019 Helen Steinemann and Regula Dodds commissioned the composer Niklaus Vogel to compose a duo for two violins for their concert entitled “à la Mozart”. The resulting musical work "Steppenwolf" was premiered on October 19, 2019 in Ebikon and has already been...

Meet film composer Yagiz Oral, founding conductor of the Agora Symphony Orchestra
Yagiz Oral is a film music composer and founding conductor of the Agora Symphony Orchestra, based in Ankara, Turkey. Epic Lab had a chance to talk with him. Yagiz Oral, what made you follow the career of a film composer? Actually, I can say that my journey started...

Meet Bernard Duc, Swiss film composer and conductor
Bernard Duc is a Swiss film composer and conductor living in London. He is also the organiser of Perspective, an event for film and media composers that is held annually in London. Bernard Duc, if you had to name 3 characteristics a successful film composer needs in...

Meet Jeffrey Gaiser at Audiomachine Los Angeles
Jeffrey Gaiser is an award-winning film composer at Audiomachine, a production music company based in Los Angeles. Many of Audiomachine's tracks have been featured in theatrical movie trailers, including those of Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia, Iron Man, Venom and...

Meet Esin Aydingoz, assistant music director for Disney’s DCappella & secretary for the Alliance for Women Film Composers
Esin Aydingoz is a Turkish film composer based in Los Angeles, who also happens to be the assistant music director for DCappella, Disney Music Group’s a cappella singing sensation featuring 7 world class vocalists. Known for their reimagined classics from the Disney...

Elephants Dream Rescored
Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch computer animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The...

Epic Lab provides film music for Dance Festival Thun
As the Dance Festival Thun cannot happen this year due to the coronavirus crisis, a dance movie will be produced instead. Epic Lab is providing the film music for the movie that will be premiered in the cinema Rex in Thun beginning of May.

Interview with film composer Peter Hauser
Peter Hauser is one of the creative minds behind Epic Lab. His compositions have been praised for their ability to get stuck in people's head, for their catchy themes and poetic touch. Learn more about his creative process, his equipment and his philosophy in our...