Members

Mike is a film music journalist from Bremen, Germany, and has been the chief editor of the quarterly film music magazine, “Cinema Musica“, since 2004. He studied history, musicology and philosophy at university in Bonn and Bremen, and has worked as a an author and film music expert for the Austrian film magazine Ray since 2006. In addition, he has worked as a freelance journalist for Bremen’s daily newspaper Weser Kurier, and is a regular contributor to the fortnightly film journal Film Dienst and the German newspapers Rheinischer Merkur and Bonner Generalanzeiger. He is member of the advisory board to the German Film Critics Association, a permanent juror for the Awards of the German Record Critics, has moderated various film music workshops and panels (EU-XXL-Festival in Krems/Austria and IFFMA in Gauting/Germany), and has acted as the executive producer of cinema and TV soundtracks for the record label Alhambra Records since 2006.

Philippe has been associated with film music for over 25 years. For 10 years he was editor of the Swiss magazine The Film Music Journal, wrote articles for Legend, Soundtrack and Cinema Musica, and is now running filmmusicjournal.ch, a website with reviews on film score CDs and DVDs. Philippe wrote various film scores between 1990 and 2000, including the critically acclaimed “General Sutter”, but due to a chronic disease has now retired.

Mike has been a reviewer and writer for SoundtrackNet since 2004, and has conducted many composer interviews and other articles for the site.  He is a graduate student in oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.

Jonathan has been the editor and chief reviewer for the film music website Movie Music UK since 1997, has written CD liner notes for Prometheus Records, has contributed articles and reviews to publications such as Film Score Monthly and Soundtrack Magazine, and worked as a film music consultant to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London in the late 1990s. Originally from Sheffield in England, he currently lives and works in Thousand Oaks, California.

Tim has been working with Film Score Monthly since 2007 and is a broadcaster and film correspondent for the Northern Media Group in Ireland (www.northernmediagroup.com). He has worked within cinema management for Warner Bros. Village Roadshow & home entertainment distribution for Blockbuster and provides voice overs for various media formats. Tim also hosts Q&A’s and screenings for local film festivals.

Demetris is a Greek-Cypriot musicologist and musician, currently a working sound engineer and video recordist and editor. He has recently completed a bachelor degree in Musicology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Fine Arts, Music Department as well as a thesis on Surround and 3D sound systems. He is currently studying for a Master’s Degree at the same university, department of Mechanical and Computer Engineering, on Audio and Video Technologies for the production and education. As a film music journalist and reviewer, he has been the publicist, international affairs coordinator and member of the organization committee of Soncinemad - Madrid International Film Music Festival during the years 2006-2007 as well as reviewer and news blog editor of Scoremagacine.com. During the current year, he has been teaching Film / Radio / Tv and Theater Sound and Music at Colleges in his hometown, Thessaloniki, Greece.  

Daniel graduated Vancouver Film School’s “writing for film” program in 2003. He began contributing to British film music journal Music from the Movies in the same year, and has since provided liner notes for a number of Film Score Monthly’s CD releases. He has also conducted a number of independent interviews with film music professionals, winning high praise for the original, narrative approach in his 2007 interview with Harry Potter composer Nicholas Hooper. Daniel currently lives and works in Suffolk, England.

Jocelyn is a freelance dramaturg and writer. He is a creative advisor on the ScreenWriting programme at National Film School in Ireland as well as a member of the artistic staff of the Sundance Institute’s Theatre Lab in the U.S. He is a film music critic with The Irish Times (www.irishtimes.com), Ireland’s leading daily national newspaper in Ireland.

Christian was raised in a household friendly to film music, his father an avid collector since the 1960’s. A decade of formal piano training as a youth led to countless performances of famous movie themes in concert. While earning a B.A. in Business Communications and English at the University of Montana, he worked at internet service providers and combined his passion for film music, technology, and writing into his first online soundtrack reviews in 1995. Evolving into Filmtracks.com in 1996, his site became a popular and controversial portal between film music and mainstream movie-goers. After receiving an M.A. in Speechwriting and Technical Communications in 2000 from the University of Washington in Seattle, Christian settled down with his family in Missoula, Montana, the original home of Filmtracks. By 2010, the site featured 1.5 million words of review content (covering 1,700 soundtrack albums) and had been visited over 100 million times.

Paul has been writing for Cinemusic.net since 2003. He is an MA/PhD student in the English Department at the University of Maryland and is currently finishing a Master’s Thesis on affect theory in film music.

Joep has been writing about film music for a variety of websites since 2002. He currently writes reviews and articles for www.maintitles.net and is Dutch film music correspondent for www.neerlandsfilmdoek.nl. He has also been working as temp score/ film music advisor on several Dutch feature films, short films and a television program. Joep currently lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Belgian reviewer Bregt started with filmscore.be, which ran for 6 years, until he and fellow IFMCA member Thomas Glorieux started MainTitles.net, at which the former scorereviews.com community found its new home. Bregt maintains several film music related websites, such as filmmusiccritics.org and goldenscores.com. In addition, he also supports and takes part in the promotion of the Film Music Festival of Ghent and the World Soundtrack Awards.

Clark has hosted the film music radio program “The Sounds and Sights of Cinema” since 2004, which spotlights film music of yesterday and today. In 2008, the show became available in podcast form as part of the “DVD Verdict Presents” series of online programs. He has also conducted many interviews with composers and others from the film music community. He writes film music reviews for Movie Music UK in addition to writing DVD reviews for DVD Verdict. He is currently the station manager of WHIE Radio in Griffin, Georgia.

Ricardo created the website CINE & BSO IN 2003, a Spanish site dedicated to reviewing films and soundtracks. Since then, he has been fully in charge of the “soundtrack reviewing” section of the site, always following the aim of spreading the magic of the film music over the most possible people and taking special attention to new young composers and recent soundtracks. He lives in Sevilla, Spain, and works for an aeronautical engineering company.

Thomas has been a reviewer for MainTitles.net since 2007. Before that, he hosted and reviewed soundtracks for his site Radio Soundtrack FM for 7 years. He has also interviewed composers exclusively for the site MainTitles.net, in correspendance with the Film Festival of Gent in Belgium. Thomas lives in Belgium, and works for an insurance company.

As editor-in-chief of SoundtrackNet for over ten years, Dan has been heavily involved in the film music industry, writing articles, reviews, and interviewing many of the industry’s top composers. In 2008 he launched ScoringSessions.com, the only Internet destination that provides exclusive coverage of Hollywood’s orchestral recording sessions. When he isn’t covering the film music industry, he designs websites for Warm Butter Design, whose primary clientele includes many of Hollywood’s film composers. Additionally, he writes liner notes for La-La Land Records and Prometheus Records, and has recently gotten into soundtrack producing, with his first release of “Blazing Saddles”, and is currently working on a much requested score that will be announced shortly.

Roger is a film music historian, educator, composer and critic and has been the editor-in-chief of Film Music Review since its beginnings as an online e-zine in 1998. A writer of numerous reviews, articles and interviews, including for Film Score Monthly and Soundtrack Magazine, he is the author of the reference book, “A Guide to Film Music: Songs and Scores“, first published in 1997, and updated every few years. For over twenty years, Roger has been selecting what he considers the best film music CD releases of each year for his Sammy Awards. He has also taught film music courses in college and adult education programs, and composed music and produced programs for radio and cable television.

Bob has been writing about film and film scores for online the film magazine MoviEmotion (formerly DVD-Club), since 2005; he began working on the site as a contributor, writing numerous ‘background articles’ on film, and is now chief editor at the site. Bob has also worked as a programming and production assistant for the 23rd Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival. He studied communication management, with journalism as a minor.

  • Kees Hogenbirk, Skrien (Netherlands)

Kees started writing soundtrack reviews, score analyses and interviews with composers for a variety of Dutch newspapers and magazines during his university studies of History. Since 1978 he has been the editor of ‘Score’, formerly the newsletter of the Max Steiner Music Society, and ‘Skrien’, Holland’s most analytical film monthly. A Master as Art historian, Kees is also an art journalist, specializing in the relation between vision and sound. In 1995 he started his (still ongoing) series ‘The Sound of Movies’ for the independant radio broadcaster De Concertzender. He’s a member of the Dutch Circle of Film Journalists KNF, based in Amsterdam.

Tom serves as producer, reviewer, and host for the multiple content features that are available on ScoreNotes, a site that was created to celebrate and promote the world of film, television and video game music. Established in 2005, the site has gained notoriety for the ongoing Composer Interview series (in audio), Film Music Suites, and the regularly updated Soundtrack Reviews.

For 10 years Ryan has designed, written for and edited the film music review site Cinemusic.net. Since 1996, through his design company klaatumedia.com, he has created evocative websites on the work of film composers Danny Elfman, Shirley Walker, Marc Shaiman, Brian Tyler, Elliot Goldenthal, Christopher Lennertz and many others. He wrote liner notes for La-La Land Records’ release of Brian Tyler’s cult-favorite “Terror Tract”, and is available to write notes for an inevitable release of Jerry Goldsmith’s “Gremlins”. Ryan spent 8 years in the Toronto film and television industry as an assistant, most recently in 2008 when he assisted director Jaume Collet-Serra on the Warner Bros./Silver Pictures thriller “Orphan”. He currently works in the interactive department for Corus Entertainment in Toronto, Canada.

Randall has been writing about film music for more than 35 years. He currently writes a bi-weekly(ish) film music column for buysoundtrax.com, and writes for cinefantastiqueonline, musicfromthemovies.com, and other venues. He has written liner notes to more than eighty soundtrack albums. In the 1980s, Larson edited and published CinemaScore: The Film Music Journal, which eventually merged with Soundtrack Magazine, for which Larson served as senior editor until its demise in 2002. Larson is the author of hundreds of articles in fields as diverse as music, fantasy and horror literature, and public safety communications. He has authored several books on film music including Musique Fantastique, a survey of film music in science fiction, horror and fantasy films which will soon see a revised, expanded 2nd edition.

Jim is a writer, editor, and author based in New York City. Jim has been writing about film music since 2003, both in print and online. He has written CD liner notes for Varèse Sarabande and continues to do so for Film Score Monthly. He also writes feature articles and a bi-monthly column on Golden Age film music for Film Score Monthly Online. He holds a Bachelor of Music from The University of Texas at Arlington and a Master of Music from The University of Texas, both in Clarinet Performance.

Miguel is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Score Magacine, a Spanish website created in 2005, for which has written hundreds of reviews and interviewed numerous composers. He is the author of articles in Spanish about the life and work of Leonard Rosenman, George Antheil and Toru Takemitsu, collaborates with Music Sales Group (an international group of music publishing companies), and was the co-director of the Soncinemad-Madrid Film Music Festival in 2006 and 2007, an event with concerts and composers’ conferences featuring Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Trevor Jones, Christopher Young, Gabriel Yared and Alan Silvestri.

Massimo is a film music journalist from Catania, Sicily, the chief editor of the Italian film music web magazine ColonneSonore, which he founded in 2003. He graduated from the Cinema Laboratory in Rome, and has been works as promoter and copyright editor for Italian media companies such as Mediaset Sky and Channel 5. He has also directed several short films and television programs for TV Mediaset and Rai.

Sylvain is the co-founder of Cinezik, one of the largest French-language film music websites, which created in 2005 with Benoit Basirico, and for which he writes CD reviews and composer interviews. He has participated in a radio show on cinema and film music, and regularly contributes to many film music events in France (conferences, festivals, concerts) as a photographer and journalist. Sylvain is also a cartoonist and children’s book illustrator.

Mike is the editor of the German-language online film music magazine Filmmusik 2000. He has written reviews and articles on current and classic film scores since the year 2000. Mike works as a software developer in Kiel, Germany.

Beyond interviewing composers and reviewing film scores for a variety of print and internet publications over the last twenty years, Daniel also temps with their soundtracks as an editor at Modern Music in Hollywood. Daniel’s many liner note credits include THE DAY OF THE DOLPHIN. WATERSHIP DOWN and BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, while his audio interview show “On the Score” can be heard at filmmusicmag.com.

Oscar is member of BSOSpirit staff, a Spanish-language film music website that started in 2001. Oscar is also part of the organzing committee for the annual International Film Music Festival which takes place in Ubeda, Spain, every July since 2005.

Damian has been writing about film music since 2003. As an editor of the most popular film music website in Poland, Soundtracks.pl, he writes reviews, articles and reports from important music events in his country. He is a student in administration at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland.

Konstantinos has been writing reviews and articles about film music since 2002. He is the chief soundtrack reviewer and editor for cinemascope.gr, the ultimate internet destination for Greek moviegoers. From December 2006 to May 2007, he co-hosted and co-produced a weekly cinematic radio show, the musical selection of which was exclusively from movie scores and songs.

James began writing about film music in 1996, and has rarely paused for breath since. Along with his website, Movie Wave, he has contributed to all the major film music magazines and written liner notes for various soundtrack albums. He currently resides near Bristol in the south west of England but frequently travels to other locations, such as Shrewsbury and Berlin.

  • Paul Stevelmans, Score (Netherlands)

Paul has been writing for Score, the Dutch film music magazine, since 1997, and since 2004 has been its editor-in-chief . Score was first published in 1971 and today is the oldest still-existing film music magazine in the world. Paul also writes CD and book reviews, general articles concerning film music, and conducts regular interviews with Dutch and foreign film composers.

Giuliano is co-editor of the Italian film music website Colonne Sonore. Among his continuative web collaborations, he is a movie critic for Offscreen.it and Film.it (to which he also contributes soundtrack surveys and columns) and the magazines L‘Acchiappafilm and Spettatore. He has contributed with essays, articles and reviews to Segnocinema and the collector’s magazine Raro!. He currently lives in Rome where he also works as a director of photography and production manager.

Łukasz is the reviewer, creator and host of MuzykaFilmowa, one of the biggest Polish film music websites, and for over 4 years has written reviews, articles and interviewed numerous composers. He is also formerly the host of a radio show about film music for Radio Merkury in Poznan, Poland.

Cary has been a reviewer and columnist for Film Score Monthly since 1999. Cary is also a playwright. His play, “Mirrors Remembered”, which was commissioned by Manhattan Theatre Club and produced by New York Stage and Film, was recently published. He is currently the Literary Associate for Queens Theatre in the Park in New York City.

Erik is the host and producer of the soundtrack radio show ’Cinematic Sound’, which now into its 12th year. The show is now heard exclusively on-line and on-demand after spending 10 years on terrestrial radio at C101.5 FM in Hamilton, Ontario. Erik has a broadcast journalism diploma from Mohawk College and has spent 11 years in the video production industry working as a producer, camera operator and editor. Erik is currently the owner of the video production company, Woods Digital Media and is also co-owner of the award winning amateur film company, TEWS Entertainment.

Łukasz has been connected with film music since 2004. He is a graduate student in history of art from Nicholaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. For over 4 years he has written reviews, articles and interviewed composers for the biggest film music web site in Poland, Filmmusic.pl.