Parker P.

🐣 Emerging composer of the year 2024, Apulia Soundtrack Awards 🏆 Best score at Burbank International Film Festival 2025, with keynote speech by Quentin Tarantino! 🏆 Nominated for best score (short) and best score (trailer) at the International Sound and Film Music Festival 2024 🎻 Recorded with orchestras as large as 110 players 😱 📚 MFA in film score composing, with thesis research on Bulgarian folk music in film and game scores I love the process of working with a director to “twist the knobs” on a piece of music. More hopeful! More dark! Different flavor of sad—more melancholy, less devastating. Epic but in a playful way, not a serious way. In a lot of ways, I see myself as a filmmaker and storyteller who happens to use music as a medium. For me, media music has two jobs: 1) elevate the artistry of the piece and 2) fix things that aren’t working yet—pacing, stakes, and most commonly, clarity. I love this mix of creativity and problem-solving—it’s why I’m a film/media music composer and not a concert composer or rock musician. This means I actually love getting notes—solving problems is half the fun. My score for the Swedish short film BURDEN was recorded with a 52-piece orchestra in Sofia, Bulgaria and nominated for best score (short) at the International Sound and Film Music Festival. My score for the trailer for the Dutch film A PRAYER FOR TWO was also nominated for best score (trailer) at the same festival. I did my MFA in scoring for the screen at Film Scoring Academy of Europe in Sofia, Bulgaria where I was awarded the prestigious Andy Hill Scholarship. My thesis was on fusing Bulgarian folk music styles with the classic Hollywood orchestral sound to build unique medieval fantasy worlds. In my studies at FSAE, UCLA and beyond, I've been lucky enough to study with Thomas Newman (composer: The Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty), Conrad Pope (orchestrator: Harry Potter, Jurassic Park),  Mikolai Stroinski (composer: The Witcher 3, Age of Empires IV), James Venable (composer: Samurai Jack, Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends), and many other greats. When not making music, I love doing improv comedy, climbing, riding bicycles and playing pool.