I grew up surrounded by musical instruments, and thus have been influenced by music since boyhood. Although my early years featured plenty of hobbies, my family's musical background ensured that musical activities were always present in one form or another. Among these were keyboard lessons, leisurely guitar playing, gigging and singing. I also fondly recall entrancing Saturday nights spent in the living room of my childhood home, headphones on full blast, feeding the rhythms of black America, 80s pop and Ed Starink's synthesizer covers of assorted New Wave classics into my mind. This feast went on ceaselessly until my late teens, as I seem to recall - then I decided that this was enough influences for now; the time had come to cook a stew of my own and see how it would be received...

My interest in cinema escalated to an obsession during my teen years, but film music itself only captured my interest towards the second half of the 1990s. FLS's coming about may have had an influence there... As I faced projects each more interesting than the last, I found that writing music for picture felt quite natural to me. It is, after all, an unlimited flow of of thought and emotion, where form and structure are blissfully free of convention.

Out of film music's eclectic buffet I have always chosen grand themes designed to evoke emotional responses, and the ambiences backing them up. Expressing distinct emotional states and visual vistas by musical means has indeed been the omega point for most of the music I've composed. I have always gone for rather broad range of instrumentation, which makes the 'genre' of my music difficult to define.

The new millennium has seen my practice expand, as I began writing pop songs and also producing such material from time to time. The aim to evoke emotions has not diminished, however, on the contrary. Setting lyrics to my music has sharpened my own sense of 'the vibes' and added to the intensity of the music.

I share with my colleagues the insistance to clear, direct communication with the director or artist. In the ideal world I find myself not only meeting expectations, but occasionally exceeding them. The moments this aim gets realised are without doubt the times I find myself living the finest hours of my career.