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Composing Music for Movies - The New Way

Back in 2000, Sara Edwards mentioned in a NBC report “Watch out for composers like George Kallis. He might be scoring movies coming to a theatre near you” - and she was right! Thunderous epic scores, quirky music for comedies, and the new era of film scoring - meet rising film composer George Kallis.

(PRWEB) February 7, 2010 — 2010 marks the fourth year of scoring films for George, who has been receiving favorable reviews for his musical sensitivities and kudos from filmmaker colleagues for his work ethic.

“It’s an interesting time for film composers” he says. “Music technology has changed the scoring process substantially over the past 10 years. It’s extremely rare to use tape machines anymore and all music studios have now minimized their hardware gear. In effect competition has substantially increased and today’s filmmakers are expecting the preliminary music to sound as ‘polished’ as the master recording, and to be delivered quicker and easier in their editing suite.”

George Kallis grew up in Cyprus, gaining reputation as one of the most promising songwriters, winning various competitions and receiving a gold CD plaque for his personal album “Where there is a Child”. He went on to study film composition at Berklee College of Music and in his final year, he was selected to represent the college in a TV interview for Channel 7 news. Following his Masters graduation from the Royal College of Music he remained in London to pursue a career in film scoring.

George, who has distinct ethno-musicological traits to his scores, worked his way up as orchestrator and composer for commercials and documentaries (e.g BBC Horizon). In 2006 he received the opportunity to pitch for the feature film Joy Division (Momentum Pictures), which he ended up scoring, and went on to record the music with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava. This lead to a meeting with film director Brett Leonard, who at the time was in post-production with the movie Highlander:The Source (Lionsgate). The producers took George on board to compose the epic music for the new instalment of the mythology, for which he conducted the 90-piece Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Leonard said “George brings to the process a complete historic understanding of film music, with a truly modern sensibility.” Scorenotes.com noted in their score review: “When Kallis gets the orchestra rolling, it’s an unstoppable flow that produces genuine excitement”.

On his scoring process, George says: “Today’s technology lends itself to easily creating high quality music. At the same time however, composers need to face the fact that nowadays anyone with a home PC can call himself a music-maker. Therefore my aim is to provide better music and a better service, so as to separate myself from the competition. Our brand new website showcases my music (George Kallis on Facebook

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