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About The Composer
Steffen Schmidt, a Los Angeles-based composer with over a decade-long career, is renowned for his versatile contributions across film, video games, and VR. His work includes the acclaimed video game Palia by Singularity 6, several feature films traversing multiple genres, and VR experiences.
LOS ANGELES
Since 2015, Steffen has been based in Los Angeles. He first started out as an assistant for well established composer(s) and musicians like Tina Guo, Michael Patti, and the crew at Cinesamples & Hollywood Scoring. After a couple years passed , Steffen has been working as a sole composer with his own studio.
SEOUL
With a strong personal history and cultural attachment to South Korea, Steffen spent a year in Seoul after graduating Berklee in 2013. During his time there, he became familiar with the film & TV industry, developing relationships with filmmakers and VR developers. Working on Korean projects is always special to Steffen and has an ongoing relationship in the Korean entertainment industry and calls Seoul his "home away from home".
INFLUENCES | JERRY GOLDSMITH
Other than being a phenomenal composer, Steffen has always been impressed with Jerry's unique approach on so many of his scores, having it be unique instrumentation or orchestration choices, to even Jerry's sense of minimalism in certain moments while reaching such intense emotion.
INFLUENCES | Hayao Miyazaki
While not being a musical influence, Hayao Miyazaki has had a profound impact as a creative mind and role model in terms of the level of dedication he puts into his work. Aside from watching his phenomenal films, Steffen has studied various documentaries and other stories about Studio Ghibli's co-founder and has been able to learn not just about his process, but also how Miyazaki-san handles various struggles that come about during production and uses that energy to complete a project successfully.
INFLUENCES | Nobuo Uematsu
Having grown up with video games, it is only natural that composers from that medium would be an influence. Nobuo Uematsu has been another major influence for Steffen in his ongoing journey as a composer, especially in video games. The power of melody telling a story is one of Uemastu's greatest strengths and has been the standard for Steffen to follow.