Member Directory

Award-winning composer Adrienne Albert (ASCAP) has had her chamber, choral, vocal, orchestral and wind band works performed throughout the U.S.,and around the world. Having previously worked as a singer with composers that include Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bern...

Singer and multi-instrumentalist AMY DENIO (sax, clarinet, guitar, bass, accordion, keyboard) has composed and recorded 500+ works for large and small ensembles for modern dance, film, theater and for television. Mainly self-taught, she has developed her uniqu...

Andrew Joslyn, composer, orchestrator, and multi-instrumentalist is an award-winning musical polymath (3x BMI Pop and Hip-Hop Award winner) whose passion for collaboration has led him to work with a remarkably diverse group of world-class artists, touring the ...

Anne Mathews (she/her, they/them) is a Puget Sound-area musician who composes, arranges, performs, and teaches global folk, choral, and pop music. Current and past collaborative performing projects include the global folk duo the Lonely Coast, Balkan electro-p...

Composer of choral and orchestral music....

Barry Dowsett is a Seattle based game composer and co-founder of the world famous Soundrangers. Credits include: THQ, Popcap, Signal Mobile, IMAX, Gree, Gaia, Playdom, Activision, Google, iWin, Foundation 9, Eidos, Electronic Arts, Microsoft Game Studios and ...

Benjamin is a Composer, Sound Designer, and Audio Engineer available for hire. His passion is working with media creators to make creative visions a reality in all forms of storytelling.

He specializes in suspense and fantasy themes with strong roots in mus...

Seattle native Bill Anschell returned to the Emerald City in 2002 after spending 25 years studying, composing, and performing across the country and around the world.

Anschell left Seattle after high school, studying for two years at Oberlin College (Ohio),...

Brian Barton is a British composer who studied composition with Sergi Slominsky at the St Petersburg State Conservatoire, Russia, (2000-2002). His style of pure music composition can be best classified as broadly Neo Romantic with European, Scandanivan and oth...

Composer of large symphonic orchestral works...

Raised in the Pacific Northwest, Brooke dove into music when she was introduced at the age of 10, by learning the trumpet. Her love of singing followed shortly after once singing in choirs and jazz settings, starting at the age of 13.
Brooke received her MM ...

Caleb is a composer and producer who holds firm to the belief that music has the ability to transport the listener to an "experiential beyond". He has produced music for Polymorphic Games, scored for World Vision and Hog The Computer Animations, and composed f...

I am a recording engineer primarily focused on location recording of live classical and contemporary music in high-resolution audiophile quality. I am new to the Seattle music scene and am excited to work on new music!...

   Carly Ann Worden is a Seattle-based composer for media and live performance. She is available for hire as a composer and arranger for film, video games, commercial content, and local theater. 

Carly Ann studied music composition at The Boston Conse...

Charlie Spears is a composer and media designer. Through his otherworldly musical compositions, visually disarming films and post-production, and theatrical and live event technical expertise, Charlie’s artistic work and collaborations have been viewed, hear...

Chris has been a musician for the past 20 years with a lengthy performance background. He has spent time as a singer/songwriter (most recently from 2006-2009), before focusing on composing. He is skilled at many instruments, specializing in guitar, bass, drums...

Chris Vaughn is currently a sound designer and composer in the gaming industry in the Seattle area. In the past, he has worked writing radio jingles, music/sound for TV commercials, and as a Hollywood film score mix engineer. Chris does the vast majority of ...

Christian Pincock is a composer/performer on trombone and electronics. Informed by a firm background in jazz, his diverse work focuses on narrative, gesture and detail as a way of inspiring and entertaining audiences with work that integrates many musical styl...

Seattle-area composer and pianist....

As a composer, costi has worked primarily with dance and theater groups, including a stint as Music Director with The Cabiri aerial dance troupe.

As a performer, he was a bandleader for 16 years, leading the Seattle-area Balkan party band Ensemble Sub Masa ...

I am a budding composer interested in learning the nuances of the craft. I've been playing guitar since the age of fifteen and struggling to study off and on since the age of twenty four while I work to pay off debt, acquire musical tools, and save up money. ...

Canadian composer Darren C. Ross creates unique scores and soundscapes by combining influences from the Scandi/Nordic noir genre, minimalist composers such as Ludovico Einaudi and Thomas Newman, and traditional Scandinavian ethnic music, with modern electronic...

Composer, Sound Designer, Audio Post Mixer. And one of the original SCA Members from WAYYYYY back in the day :)...

Some of my most recent composition interests are composing music for private students, string orchestras, solo guitar pieces, and music for groups in which I play. I have published a band piece and am now working on more string orchestra pieces. One of my stri...

David writes largely instrumental music for a variety of projects. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of The Neighborhood Arts Collective, a multi-disciplinary arts organization that creates pieces aimed at inspiring empathy for others. He recently co...

Musically talented and creative from an early age, Devin Anderson Wiley later had formal studies in orchestral composition and film music. His works as singer-songwriter are produced under the moniker D.A. Wiley.
He is self-taught on a multitude of instrumen...

Don Farwell is a Seattle-based audio engineer and owner of Wallingford’s beloved Earwig Studio. Farwell got his start in the early 90s, honing his chops behind the board first at The Evergreen State College where he later earned his degree in Music Productio...

Retired singer-songwriter. No longer performing quirky novelty songs but still writes something melodic when the situation arises or the mood strikes to be creatively silly....

My compositions for albums, industrial videos, commercials and film cover a wide variety of styles. For more information please go to my website:
zproinc.com...

IMDB: imdb.com/name/nm3047539/

Originally from Chicago, Ed Hartman is an accomplished composer, performer, and educator. Ed received his Bachelor of Music from Indiana University, and has been involved with the film and music communities in the Pacific Nor...

Music has always been a huge part of my life and is my passion. I began playing the piano at age 5 and have been a vocalist for most of my life. In my 20s, I realized that I had a deep love for orchestral music, so I joined the Bremerton Symphony and was a mem...

With over 80 film and game credits, award-winning composer Eric Goetz has established himself as a master of creative melodic music that supports character driven narratives. From period genre films, to science fiction adventure games, to modern contemporary d...

Erik Feldman is a composer, orchestrator, and conductor living in Seattle, focusing on telling stories with music. He is a graduate of the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program (Master's of Music, 2015) at the Seattle Film Institute; he received his B.A. in M...

Specializing in orchestral music for films and games.
B.S. in Music Composition and Computer Science.

Want to hear my thoughts on film music as an art form? Here's my youtube series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYx7FR30QI...

Seasoned Sound Designer with over 15 years of experience in digital audio production. Wide variety of highly trained skills derived from industry backgrounds in Video Games, Music, Film, and Entertainment. Efficient manager with experience in AAA titles and in...

I have been writing music in many styles for 50 years. In 2014 I won Honorable Mention for "The Clock" in the International Songwriting Competition, Comedy/Novelty category. ( I lost to Rachel Bloom, Showtime's "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. If you are going to lose,...

Composer of chamber and symphonic music and author with published/recorded works and performances across the U. S. and internationally; speaker on interdisciplinary arts, and oboist specializing in contemporary music. Dr. Steinke is the current national presid...

Heidi is primarily a composer of stand-alone concert works. She most frequently composes and arranges for chamber groups, as well as duets and solos. Some recent performances include a viola quintet, commissioned for and performed at the Max Aranoff Viola Inst...

Howard is an award winning composer and sound designer specializing in creating dynamic music for video games and other media. Howard has worked on dozens of games and hundreds of album projects, film scores and commercials. Howard is well known for his work ...

2 Time Emmy Award Winning composer of over 40 films including “Robin Hood: Men in Tights”, “Dracula: Dead and Loving It” and “Year of the Comet”. Recently he completed his DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) from the University of Salford (Manchester, UK...

Aspiring Seattle based composer with a focus on ambient and dark atmospheric tracks. Self-taught and always looking for ways to improve....

Jacob Mashak is a composer, conductor and variable instrumentalist (principally trombone, recorder and toy piano) born in Vermont and currently living in Seattle. Among other distinctions, he is recognized for having written the longest, non-repetitive piano p...

I've worked in a wide variety of media production areas - from scripting to editing - in video and media for the web. Music composition is one of my key passions. The mix of media and music has always intrigued me. How fortunate we are to be living in a tim...

James Plakovic is a visual artist and composer who combines auditory and visual elements into a simultaneous experience. He is the originator of the visual art style known as MusicArt in which musical notation is arranged to form both a visual and musical comp...

James is a former President of the SCA board. He earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and a professional certificate from the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at the University of Southern California. H...

Composer and arranger whose passion is producing high quality music through process, craft and creativity with specialties in music for film, media and educational ensembles....

Northwest composer of "classical" concert music as well as some limited film music. Studied composition at Univ of Iowa with Richard Hervig and with Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program under Hummie Mann....

Composer, bandleader and Seattle native Jenny Davis (the Yeoman Warders Project) is a critically acclaimed jazz vocalist, music educator, and passionate human rights proponent. Refusing to conform to more vocal jazz idioms, Davis began composing her own materi...

Jeremiah has been composing for nearly two decades, working primarily on symphonic heavy metal projects, and most recently the heavy metal opera, Aeterno Elementum, which was staged eight times throughout the greater Seattle area from 2010 to 2015. Currently ...

Formal training at Shenandoah Conservatory and Trinity Laban Conservatory, specializing in dramatic and expressive composition for ambient listening as well as film, TV, and video games....

Composer for film & games, and woodwind performer and teacher. Alummie of PNWFS and Boston University alumnus....

Joshua Kohl is a composer and conductor and is the creative producer and co-founder along with choreographer Haruko Crow Nishimura of the Seattle based multi-art group Degenerate Art Ensemble (DAE) which is his primary creative outlet. He has performed with t...

I have been composing music on and off since the mid 1980's and my compositions reflect my training and education as a classical pianist. In the late 1980's, some of my music was aired on a PBS radio station on a New Age program in East Lansing, Michigan and ...

Kai is a teacher, composer, drummer, percussionist, and performing artist with a home base in Seattle. His solo electronic project ROBOrT, is available for streaming everywhere.

Kai has performed and toured with The Bucharest Drinking Team, DAMA LIBRA, The...

Kazuma Jinnouchi started his career in composing for video games and films in 2006, and has provided scores for numerous projects including Microsoft's blockbuster, Halo 5: Guardians, Halo 4, and Konami's widely-known franchise Metal Gear Solid series. He has ...

Kevin Vitz-Wong is a composer, clarinetist and singer from Ballard. He's worked with the Materia Collective and the Seattle Video Game Orchestra & Choir....

Kirill Polyanskiy is a violinist, composer, and arranger looking to work with music producers, chamber ensembles, and other composers to create new music addressing the unique problems in 21st century Seattle....

Kyle G. is a Seattle-based composer who makes music for films and video games. By molding the audio to fit the visual, he can enhance, support, or redirect the emotional content of the medium....

A Seattle-based indie-classical composer and sound designer. He releases cinematic, experimental and ambient music under his own name....

I am a Multi-Instrumentalist. A Music Producer and a Artist Based in Seattle Washington. I Perform music with a unique but intuitive vision for equity, equality and change....

I have been involved in music since the age of 6. I grew up in the entertainment business with my father a now retired 45 year veteran stuntman and my brother who has been an actor for the past 30 plus years.

With the passion for music at the forefront and ...

I am a film and video game composer currently residing in the PNW. My aim with my music is to enrich the emotional content and drive the narrative forward and to aid the overall storytelling in a film or game. I compose, produce, and implement original music i...

Lucas Victor is a performing guitarist and composer from Everett, Washington and has performed solo recitals regularly throughout the Seattle region. Mr. Victor received a Bachelor’s of Music in Guitar Performance with honors from the University of Washingto...

I am a scientist (hydrologist) and amateur composer. I started composing a couple of years ago. So far I have composed mostly for piano, mostly in a polyphonic style but often with using themes better described as romantic rather than baroque. My pieces are co...

Mark Wayne is an independent composer who moved to the Seattle area in 2017 after having lived on the East Coast (NY, FL, DC, VA) for all of his life.

Currently based in Bellevue, Mark uses a medley of artificial and organic sounds to create evocative music...

Mixer/producer/engineer/musician. Owner of Red Room, my mixing studio, founding member of Minus the Bear.

I started in Seattle in 1994 as an intern at Bad Animals. Moving to an almost finished Studio Litho when Ed Brooks asked me to assist him on Pearl Jam ...

Matt is a bassist, keyboardist, and sound engineer.
He corroborates and consults with songwriters for backing tracks, recording assistance, and live performance.
He is also the manager of Ted Brown Music in Seattle....

Matthew Pelandini has been composing music professionally since 1996. His jazz arrangements, art music compsitions, and original jazz compositions have been performed all across the USA and in Europe. He received his Masters in Music Composition in 2005 from ...

Matty Noble is a performing and studio violinist specializing in odd meters, punk, metal, improvisation and folk styles inspired by Romani and Balkan traditional music. He has played hundreds of concerts in the US and across Europe in bands, orchestras, and th...

Minyang "Merlin" Cen is a music composer, producer who creates original soundtracks for film, video, and mixed-media projects. Minyang graduates from Berklee College of Music where trained him how to be a great music composer and producer. Minyang also perform...

I've written for solo instruments, chamber orchestra, full orchestra, modern dance and electronic music. I've done some conducting as well, but only with small ensembles. Though I've been playing drums for over 20 years now, I've only been playing professional...

Mick Collins writes Neo-Romantic music for Chamber Groups, Orchestra, and Choirs. Getting a degree in Composition at the University of Colorado, Mick studied with Richard Toensing, Zoe Erisman, Franz Roehmann, and Paris Rutherford....

Mike Simpson is a conductor, composer, educator, and French Horn performer who has presented Music throughout the Pacific Northwest United States, and in Norway, New York, Memphis, and Brazil. He has written works for Band, Choir, Jazz ensemble, Horn solo, Per...

I am a double bassist, composer, and music teacher living in Seattle. I studied jazz bass at Cornish College of the Arts, and later I studied Classical Bass and Composition at Central Washington University where I received my masters degree.

I primarily com...

Grammy award winning composer and performer. Currently working on a personal composition project with oboe, English horn and various ocarinas with various accompaniments. Has written compositions for solo instruments, choir, orchestra, film and radio. H...

I've been writing and improvising music since age 8, and formally studying composition and theory since age 16. I gained the bulk of my formal training during my dual major program (one major was in Composition; I graduated with one major in Music Business/Man...

Nomi is a soul and rock singer and composer with a passion for connecting intentional lyrics with unforgettable melodies. She performs and composes lead vocals for indie rock band Tigers in the Tank and performs backup and lead vocals with Sonic Funk Orchestra...

Paul Stovall is from the Seattle area. He graduated from Western Washington University where he studied piano with Jeffrey Gilliam and composition with Roger Briggs, Todd Smith, Adam Haws, Charles Halka, and Lesley Sommer. Paul also recently completed his mast...

Daniel is known for composing the music scores for video games such as Dota 2, Jin's Revenge (Coming Soon), Call of Duty - Global Operations, Warcraft III Reforged - The Quenching, Path of Immortals, Disciples 3, Supraland Crash, Supraland 6 Inches Under (Comi...

Peter B. Cornell is a Seattle area composer who is continuously expanding his command of a variety of musical forms, genres, and modes of expression. A software engineer by trade, Peter took piano lessons from a young age and began writing piano solos in 2009....

I'm a composer, sound and multimedia designer based in Seattle. In much of my recent music I have been inspired by the idea of evoking the spaciousness of the Western landscape, of journeying long distances in search of hopeful horizons. My style blends classi...

Pippin Kenworthy is a composer, guitarist, producer and sound engineer from Perth, Australia. The music Pippin writes does not fit easily into a single style or genre....

I have been composing, classical and electronic, since the 1980s. I have composed three string quartets, and have been toying with string and full orchestra pieces. I have been composing and recording electronic pieces in my very modest home studio, using a ...

Professional music preparer, arranger, orchestrator, music librarian, music editor, score producer & educator. His company, RPM Seattle (www.musicprep.com), has prepared print music for over 100 feature films & dozens of video games.



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My name is Rodrigo Batalha. I am a musician/music educator and a student in a doctoral program in Composition (Universidade do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). My musical compositions have no borders between classical and popular music....

A creative and prolific composer,conductor,band leader, educator, Ron Jones has primarally worked as composer on thousands of productions including several of the most popular TV series such as Star Trek:The Next Generation and Family Guy. As a kid Ron grew up...

Seattle native Roy Herzer studied trumpet with Roy Cummings, head of the University of Washington trumpet studio, then theory, orchestration, and composition with Robert Panerio at Central Washington University, earning a degree in music education and holding ...

Ryan Carraher (b.1993) is an award-winning contemporary/experimental composer, jazz guitarist, improviser, studio musician, producer and educator based in Seattle, WA. His recent compositions experiment with the use of impossibility to construct catastrophe-in...

To me, the compositional process is not complete until a performer interprets and shapes the music. I hope that my pieces will create worlds, images, and enjoyment for the listener. While most of my work has been concert music, I have written for theatre and d...

Scott Lawrence is an American music composer and recording artist. Originally from Atlanta, GA, Scott has made Seattle, WA his home for more than 20 years. His passion for music began at age 5 when he started playing piano by ear. By age 12, he had sketched o...

Sebastian Wolff is a composer, orchestrator, and classical pianist living in the Seattle area....

Seven Sky Spillios is a 22-year-old composer, multi-instrumentalist, teacher, artist manager, and more who moved to Seattle from southern Oregon at the age of 18 to hone his craft and establish his connection to the local scene. As a composer, he has scored fi...

For over 10 years, award-winning film composer Soren Laulainen has become recognized for his ability to bring the emotional center of a story to light and to life. From psychological thrillers, to post-apocalyptic sci-fi, to intimate dramas, Soren creates palp...

Biographical Info for Stephen DeVore on Seattle Composers Alliance Website, posted June 21, 2022:

Songwriter (Song composer and Lyric-writer). Theory in College. SINGER. Piano. A. Guitar. Keyboards. Loops. (: Hire me! :)


HISTORY:

Before age 10: Too...

A native of Detroit, Michigan, Stephen Michael Newby earned his Bachelor of Arts in vocal music education and flute performance from Madonna College in Livonia, Michigan. He earned his Master of Music in jazz composition and arranging from the University of Ma...

Steve composes for multi-media, TV and film and runs Steve Kirk Studios based out of Port Orchard, Washington.

Steve’s latest score - Bartlow’s Dread Machine:

“What if the very first "video game" was actually invented in 1907? That's the premise o...

Susan Maughlin Wood of PunchBeam Music is an independently contracting composer for media and concert music and has an extensive performance background. She holds a Master of Music in Film Composition degree from Pacific NW Film Scoring Program and served as P...

My instruments: I played recorder from 1987 to 1990, the Bb and Eb Trumpet from 1991 to present, and Bb French horn 1995 to Present.
I began composing as a hobby from 2001 to 2018. Began studying full time in 2018 at Berklee Online.
studied music at: Central...