Charles Fernandez, composer and orchestrator, EMMY and ANNIE Nominee with a host of credits for Disney, MGM, Warner Brothers and Universal. Charles is a graduate of University of California, Loyola University and the Royal College of Music. His work spans everything from orchestrating film trailers to concert commissions, composing and orchestrating feature films and television. Charles is based in Los Angeles, California.
Milton Nelson is a composer and orchestrator with credits including the Haunting in Connecticut, Pokemon and Jackie Chan movies, TV shows including Scrubs, The Wayne Brady Show, The Tonight Show and High School Musical: Get In The Picture. He works both with samples and live orchestra and is based in Los Angeles California.
Robin Hoffmann is a young up and coming orchestrator with credits in both feature films and games. He studied composition at the University of Dresden. His music speaks volumes for his skill as an orchestrator. Check out his music on our website and you'll see why we were so keen to have him join our team of tutors.
Rachel Grave is a composer and orchestrator. After she graduated in Music from the University of Surrey, she went on to gain a MMus in Composition at the Guildhall School of Music before taking a second masters degree in Film Composition at the Royal College of Music. She has worked with PJ Harvey, film directors Malcolm Lamont and Andreas Ksoll and her work for choreographer Yessica Lovbrand was broadcast on Radio 3. Recent films include an American RomCom feature, 'Crash Down Hearts.'
George Kallis is a film composer and orchestrator who's recent credits as a composer include Highlander the Source and Joy Division and as an orchestrator on Marvel's Dr Strange, Next Avengers and Ultimate Avengers. George studied music at Berklee in the US and then took a Masters at the
Royal College of Music.
Guy Michelmore is both the course director and an award winning film
composer. He is both an EMMY and ANNIE nominee and has scored eight animated
feature films for Marvel including Ultimate Avengers, Invincible Iron Man
and Doctor Strange. His other work includes landmark films for the BBC
Natural History Unit, Nature on PBS and over 200 episodes of television for
the NBC network, Discovery and other networks around the world. He
regularly composes, orchestrates and conducts for live orchestra in Europe
and the USA. He also has a detailed knowledge of sampled orchestration and
contemporary techniques in commercial film scoring.
Adam Klemens is a conductor and orchestrator with credits including District 9 (US box office number 1), Brian Tylers score for Final Destination and with Mark Isham on The Bad Lieutenant. He is based in Prague where he has worked on dozens of Hollywood movies. He taught music theory at the Prague Conservatoire until 2007.
Jamie Christopherson is a game and film composer based in Hollywood. He has an exhaustive knowledge of sampled orchestration but also works regularly with live orchestra on major games projects including Lord of the Rings, Spiderman, Command and Conquer and Mortal Kombat.