Bio

I write original scores for films that have premiered at Venice, Tribeca, BFI London, Rotterdam, Fantasia, and Outfest, among others, with distribution on PBS, HBO Max, Apple TV, Canal+ and Hulu; and multiple online features on Nowness and Vimeo Staff Picks. My music has been licensed to network television in the US and Europe, as well as the Peabody-nominated podcast Scene on Radio.

As a teenager, I began studying music composition under William Mival, then Head of Composition at the RCM and now a regular BBC Radio 3 broadcaster. I went on to study under Emily Howard, a two-time Ivor Novello Award-winning composer. I then moved to New York City to train in film scoring under Chris Hajian, composer of City of Lies (Johnny Depp) and Tin Soldier (Jamie Foxx, Robert De Niro). From there, I spent several years working full time as a sound designer, dialogue editor, and mixer for Brooklyn post-production studios, on national ad campaigns, trailers, podcasts and films, alongside a brief, NDA-bound period ghost-orchestrating for a platinum-selling music artist turned film composer.

I approach every project as a search for new sounds, leaning into the unknown to find a musical language that feels unexpectedly connected and true to the story: how do we bring an authentic, new voice to visual storytelling without falling back on overused tropes?

My personal music, heard on the 'Albums' tab, is piano-based, melodic, and introspective. Recorded simply on an average upright piano through inexpensive microphones, with none of the production and polish of my studio film work. I leave in what most would edit out: the mechanical noise of the piano, the movement of the body and the chair, occasionally my dog who lays by my feet, taking a sigh or moving slightly. Not a pursuit of noise, but of an honest, living moment that resonates right with me. 

Today I work from Creatures of Sound, a scoring and post-production studio I built in New York's Catskill Mountains, with an open door for creatives who want mountain privacy to collaborate and create.

Contact: info@alex-symcox.com