Anne-Kathrin Dern on taking risks, her surprising horror score, and how we met

Join us for the Premiere of Composers Out of the Studio featuring Anne-Kathrin Dern! I'll be in the live chat and, who knows, perhaps Anne will join us as well...

In this episode of Composers: Out of the Studio, we're headed to Santa Monica to meet up with rising star ‪@AnneKathrinDernComposer‬! I’ve had the pleasure of joining her composing team on 3 films. In Part 1 of our conversation, we grab coffee and talk about how we met, and how she stepped outside of her comfort zone to create perhaps her most exciting score yet, for the religious horror film Devil.

Here's Anne-Kathrin's YouTube channel:    / annekathrinderncomposer  

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About David Kudell:
David Kudell is an LA-based music composer for film & TV. He is well known for being selected by JJ Abrams, Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and Ramin Djawadi out of 11,000 composers as the winner of the “Spitfire scoring competition” to score a scene from the HBO show Westworld in 2020. His groundbreaking score shook up the composer community with its wholly original take on the scene, and instantly made David a household name among fellow composers.

As a composer, David has shown his ability to write music in a broad variety of styles and genres for film & TV. As part of composer Anne-Kathrin Dern's team, he recently contributed music to the Netflix film "The Claus Family 2," the gothic thriller film "Devil,” and romantic thriller “Have. Hold. Take.”

In addition, he has been commissioned to write music for the popular music companies Orchestral Tools and Native Instruments.

Born and raised in Southern California, David graduated with a Master's Degree in Film & Television Production from San Diego State University in 2000. After graduation, he worked in the post-production sound department on over 25 Hollywood films, including Black Hawk Down, Mission Impossible 3, and Kill Bill. He is also an accomplished video director, having filmed and produced hundreds of commercials at his company Rimrock Creative Media.

His background as a video director has led to his current success as a music composer, as his understanding of the filmmaking process gives him a film director's perspective on the best use of music to tell the story.

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