Being a creator in the field of music, is a valuable talent!
For this reason, GVA Records has decided to dedicate this page, to composers, musicians, singers and other musicial talent of international reputation.
We value and support the composers and artists we represent!
Bristol based Latvian composer and producer Maija Vidovska could be a new name to the film music industry, but she is no beginner. Maija started her journey as sync producer for film/TV in 2021 and has already impressed industry professionals with her very first orchestral composition “Forgive” cited by many as “exceptional”. Her interest in music production and composition began very early with Maija composing her first music piece for piano when she was six years old and started attending music primary school. She showed her passion, creativity and innovation from an early age by borrowing synthesisers and mics from local music teachers to enable the production and recording of her own songs. Over the years adding professional skills in music production and sound engineering has played a huge part in becoming an independent and original creator. During her academic years Maija studied classical and jazz flute in Latvia and Lithuania (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre) as well as graduated from Rock Music High school vocal class in Riga. During her career Maija has performed in various European countries with Gospel choir from Vilnius and as a member of different jazz and alternative bands like ‘FusedMarc’ (LT) and had a role in musical ‘Westside Story’ staging in Riga. She has also taken part in many different studio projects and is more known as Maija Dub Flute for her flute improvisations and arrangements on Grammy nominated albums of legendary Lee Scratch Perry and Max Romeo to name few. Maija’s hybrid (alternative/electronic/cinematic) project Arta Arden has featured in few BBC Introducing broadcasts and has been acknowledged by ‘Massive Attack’ producer Stew Jackson as being “at the table” with representatives of Bristol Sound. Mixing orchestral sound with electronic soundscapes and live alternative instruments as electric guitars, drums and adding haunting vocals is a formula that describes Arta Arden’s music the best. But in general, the main thing for Maija as composer, musician or producer is to create meaningful, unforgettable and beautiful music that lives on… In film, on vinyl or in real life.
Michael Drew is a multi award-winning Australian composer for film, television and games based in LA. In 2022, Michael was awarded the APRA AMCOS Professional Development Award. The APRA AMCOS PDA’s are an annual honour that exist to support songwriters and composers at a pivotal stage in their respective careers. Michael currently holds a Master of Fine Arts (First Class Honours) in Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media from the Film Scoring Academy of Europe. Michael wrote his Masters thesis researching spatial audio and its use for immersive music composition. Michael strives to innovate and find new approaches for immersive storytelling experiences. Much of Michael’s creative approach delves deep into sound design, melodic driven themes, out-of-the-box thinking, and pushing the technology and the boundaries of music composition. Currently Michael is scoring a wildlife film project in immersive 3D audio, exploring this developing approach to scoring and discovering exciting new pathways and doors. Michael has scored over 30 projects from films/web series/games and more. Recently he teamed up with Bulgarian stars Ivo Dimchev and Iva Todorova and arranged and orchestrated a catalogue of their works performed live with the Vratsa Symphony Orchestra which tours 2021 & 2022. He has also had extensive recording experience working with the European Recording Orchestra playing multiple roles from composer, orchestrator, conductor and score supervisor. Michael’s film scores have received 13 awards from around the world as well as several nominations. Michael prides himself on bringing passion and enthusiasm to every project. With a keen insight in scoring to visuals and storytelling, an outstanding work ethic, deep imagination and an open mind, no concept is too complex for this experienced and talented composer.
Two-time Emmy winner Lars Deutsch grew up in a village in Germany with more cows than people. He was born into a non-musical family and was astounded when he discovered that a guitar needs tuning. After that he went from heavy metal guitarist, to singer, to songwriter, to a Masters in classical composition, to international performances of his classical works, to lecturing in composition and audio production. He has subsequently developed a unique approach to producing and developing artists, and has similarly developed a unique sound for his film music, as well as a cutting-edge approach to audio branding. Lars has scored over three hundred fifty films / commercials that have collected over one hundred awards. His songs are in high demand and he is a producer at Built To Last Music, a company that features multiple Oscar nominees and Grammy winners. As an audio branding expert, he has created audio logos for a range of businesses, trade organizations and even an entire region of Germany.
Shamala, born in Kiev, Ukraine, raised in Cuba, since 2015 living and working in Munich Germany. She is a composer/songwriter/producer and has composed and recorded music in a wide range of styles from classical intimate scores, epic orchestral to electronic/pop tracks. In Kiev in 2009 she graduated Tchaikovsky Music Academy with Master of Arts as a concert pianist and composer. Living in Ukraine she was a keyboard player and songwriter in the pop Ukrainian band SIRENA – winner of an MTV AWARD “Best Ukrainian Band” (2011) and was one of the European nominees for the Best World Wide Act: https://youtu.be/aFeltcvx5vE Shamala has worked as a répétiteur with the singer JAMALA, the Winner of the Eurovision 2016, and with the Kiev “Freedom Jazz Ballet”. After moving to Germany in 2015 she started the project “Von Seefeld” as a singer and songwriter and wrote and produced an album with the Grammy awards Winner Adrian Bushby, producer of Muse and Foo Fighters. https://youtu.be/SG4xdtJVrJM the full album on Soundcloud: https://bit.ly/3d7GgYC Since 2014 she is working as a film and advertising composer for companies like BBDO group, Publicis Group, Velvet Film production, and got an opportunity to record her scores with an Oscar winning Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra – SIF 309.
“What strength! Inner character and power, together in a single breath” – Radio Suisse Romande praises Serbian pianist Jasmina Kulaglich for her creativity, combining her great sensitivity and her Slavic passion. In spring 2022, Jasmina will release her new album « Dumka » with the Calliope label, presenting the rarely performed works of Russian composers, and those of Russian female composers, to be discovered, some in world premiere. Born in Belgrade, Jasmina Kulaglich took First Prize in the Serbian Pianists Competition, the City of Belgrade’s October Prize, the Grand Prize of the University of the Arts, and First Prize at the Higher National Academy of Music in her hometown. She continued her studies in France and Switzerland with the school of Claudio Arrau, and with Georgy Sebok. Soloist with the Orchestre Romantique Européen in Paris for two Liszt Concertos, with the UK Symphony Orchestra in London, and chamber orchestras in France, she also performs with soloists from the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre Philarmonique de Radio France, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre National d’Ile-de-France. Jasmina founded the Trio Botticelli and most recently the Trio Bohème with whom she released the album The Seasons in 2019, receiving rave reviews across Europe. While she clearly draws on the traditions of the Russian piano school, she performs in France (Salle Gaveau, Salle Cortot, Fondation Cziffra, Goethe Institut, Festival Debussy, Lyon, Pianissimes…), in Great Britain (London, Leicester), in Switzerland (Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel), in Italy, Holland, Belgium, and in the United States. Jasmina Kulaglich released the Naxos CD “Byzantine Mosaic” as a world premiere, featuring Serbian composer Svetislav Bozic. “It is a record of rare beauty” (A emporter, ResMusica). “The effervescent playing of Jasmina Kulaglich reaches out to the listener immediately. Virtuoso, angry, pledged with a sense of vaporous phrasing” (Appoggiature).
Sean Tinnion is a multi – award winning British-Australian music composer for films, television, games & other multimedia productions currently based in Australia. His compositional style and sound is a mixture between haunting, evocative, emotional scores & dark ambient soundscapes that extensively use orchestra and electronic elements. Over the span of his career, he has scored over 50 productions based in Australia and overseas, including the UK and the USA ranging from short films, features, games, corporate and commercials. He has claimed an impressive 16 winning awards for his scores from many different festivals and institutions around the world including the Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival, The Global Music Awards, The Los Angeles Film Awards, The Oniros Film Awards New York, The New York International Film Awards, The Global Film Festival Awards Los Angeles, The London International Film Awards, the Vegas Movie Awards, the Europe Film Festival UK, the APRA Screen Music Awards, Australia and the International Sound & Film Music Festival in Croatia. He has also received a further 7 nominations for his work in film & TV. 2020 was a turning point in Sean’s career, landing his first feature length film production ‘The Last Horns of Africa’ which is a gripping and intimate look at the current rhino poaching war raging across Africa for which he has won 3 awards with 2 of them being for ‘Best Original Score’ at the Global Music Awards and the Vegas Movie Awards and the third being a Horizon Award for ‘Best Soundtrack’ from the International Sound & Film Music Festival in Croatia. He has also received another nomination from the Global Film Festival Awards in Los Angeles. This then led to his second feature length film ‘Jaimen Hudson: From Sky to Sea’ which has been shown in cinemas, Australia & New Zealand wide. He has also delved into the world of video games with his debut game ‘The Last Stand: Aftermath’ which can be played on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series and PC. Sean has also been releasing music onto all major streaming stores with his first album ‘An Everlasting Serenity’ being released on March 25th, 2020 which is a meditation/easy listening work which was then followed by ‘Avori’,’ his 2nd album which is a solo piano work, released on November 24th, 2020 and features numerous collaborations from other composers and artists around the world. He is currently working on his 3rd album release which will be cinematic in style and is planned for a mid 2022 release. Born in Liverpool, England, he started out at the early age of five where his interest in music began at the piano and eventually would turn to film music. In late 2004, he immigrated to Australia where his musical skills had the opportunity to develop further. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Music Major In Composition and Music Technology in 2011 from The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, graduating in 2015. Scores to many documentaries & films have gained recognition and interest from producers & directors both domestically and internationally.
Composer Emily Frances Ippolito has a strong passion for music and its importance in film, particularly when it enhances emotions that are otherwise not seen on the screen. She has scored for various types of short films including a film short titled One Way by animator and director Verónica Valdeón Noya. Some others include the gothic short film Nameless, by UK director Jonna Laitinen. The score for Nocturnal, in collaboration with BAFTA and RTS nominee Tatenda and writer/director Esther Conroy; as well as one for the short Tide, directed by the UK artist Mark Zerop. She has scored for a variety of film styles in animation, horror, drama, and documentary and has composed concert music for all genres, from solo pieces to full orchestral works. A recipient of a master’s degree from University of Edinburgh’s Music Composition for Screen program, Emily is also a writer, currently authoring a children’s book series, Teyla Kai’s Adventures: The Lost Wings, with her daughter which is now available to order. Originally from Oregon, Emily now resides in Edinburgh, Scotland with her ten-year-old daughter where she also teaches through her online music business Inner Voice Music Instruction.
am Sara, an award-wining composer from Spain with more than 10 years’ experience in music production. I obtained the Film Scoring certificate at UCLA in June 2019. I worked at the company JoAnn Kane Music Service as a copyst, whereI was part of the crew in movies as Star Wars IX, Frozen 2, Trolls 2, Maleficent 2, Doctor Dolittle and Onward among others, and TV series as The Mandalorian, Family Guy, Empire, and The Simpsons. As well as in live projects, highlighting the 92nd Oscar Ceremony Awards on February 2020.I also worked scoring for one of the most important multinationals in the gaming and leisure sector in Spain and in Latin America writing some music for their smartphone apps. I participated in several national and international scoring competitions in which I won several distinctions and awards highlighting the Best Original Score in ISA Broze Awards, 2020 in Los Angeles. I also have been part of the videogame jury of the Berlanga 2021 Awards. Currently, I am working as a composer assistant in two music licensing companies that produce music for TV Shows, documentaries, movies and videogames in New York and Serbia. I am also working as an orchestrator for Oscar Araujo, one of the most popular videogame composers in Spain.
The 7 year old guy left violin education after the first days, because they didn`t let him play the instrument right away. Then he has ended up on the pages of Metalhammer and performing on MTV with his songs. Tom Kovacs the 37 years old composer, producer, singer/songwriter a father and husband. In 2021 he decided to open his studio and provide composing and production services for musicians, artists directors and music licensing companies. Tom is creating orchestral pieces, rock and pop songs which he mixes and masters himself as well as the songs of other artists. Plays the piano, guitar mastered orchestral VSTs and synths, is a professional vocalist and studying mastering engineer. He is up to making music for film and TV by using his infinite creativity and passion. Although he went to several music schools he consideres himself as mainly self tought. Tom was the songwriter and frontman of the band 5 Yards from 2009 to 2018. They traveled the country and performed on almost all festival stages in Hungary. The original band split in 2011 but Tom and few other members kept on with the recording and performing. Before this period Tom was the member of a lot of different formations. He started recording his songs in 2004 directing session musicians in professional studios. He started to study music at the age of 7 but the first days in the violin education didn`t go well as he was not allowed to play the instrument itself. So he left. He wanted to play. Unfortunately the family did not have the money to buy any instruments (even an acoustic guitar). Therefore he looked for other ways to get involved with music and the best solution was singing in all the choirs, taking all opportunities for performing in the schools, contests etc. The big story began at the age of 15 with the first rock band.
Valeriy Antonyuk was born in 1979. He is Ukrainian composer, arranger, pianist, multiinstrumentalist, rock-pop singer, song poet and songwriter. He works in all the existing musical genres, composes music for different instrument bodies. He has a good experience of collaboration with world known production music libraries such as Sonoton, Manhattan Production Music, Sound Ideas, Westar Music, Fable Music, Epitome Music. He composed music to three feature TV films “Red Lotus”, “Bread Day”, “Snake Is Creeping” music to documentary “Black Sea Navy” 1941-1944, and for 2 short feature films “Who Is Tanya”, “She Called him Idiot”. He collaborates with National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, State Academic Variety-symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, Bulgarian Film Orchestra, Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra, Madeira Classical Orchestra, London Metropolitan Orchestra. He participates constantly in world known Ukrainian international festivals of modern music such as “Kyiv Music Fest”, “Musical Premiers Of The Season”, “Kyiv Musical Premiers”, “Contrasts”.He is a member of National Composer Union of Ukraine, member of performing rights societies BMI, MCPS. In year 2017 Valeriy Antonyuk signed an exclusive agreement with Japanese classical music publisher Da Vinci Edition for the publication of his major symphonic works. In year 2018, with the same company, under Da Vinci Classics label, he was published the first volume of CD of him Symphonic and Vocal-Symphonic works. «I am Gerhard Narholz, composer, owner and managing director of SONOTON Music GmbH&Co.KG, Munich, Germany. I know Valeriy Antonyuk as creative composer and experienced arranger (orchestrator) for full Symphony Orchestras. He is very talented in creating film scores or illustrating dramatic film scenes and his neo-classical work is world-class». Gerhard Narholz, Munich 26.6.2012.
