Photo by Adam P. Cray
Composer Brandon Moore grew up with a love for the movies and an ear for their musical scores. While performing classical music as a youth in Fort Worth, Texas he was simultaneously immersing himself in soundtracks.
His passion for both music and film led him to earn a Bachelor of Music degree in composition and a certification from the University of Southern California's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program where he had the privilege of studying under legendary film composers Elmer Bernstein, David Raksin and Christopher Young.
Brandon has composed a wide range of scores for a variety of projects and genres such as the sci-fi adventure ALIENS ATE MY HOMEWORK (featuring the voice talent of William Shatner) and its Emmy winning sequel ALIENS STOLE MY BODY for Universal Pictures. Both scores have been released on NBCUniversal’s Backlot Music label. He has also score the horror/comedy HOUSE OF KARMA starring Bai Ling and Jake Busey and multiple audio thrillers for Earbud Theater including the recurring horror anthology TALES FROM THE DEAD OF NIGHT parts 1 & 2. Other recent projects include THE RODDENBERRY ARCHIVE, a multimedia library dedicated to preserving the Star Trek creator's legacy, presented by the artists of OTOY in collaboration with The Gene Roddenberry Estate.
Brandon's music can also be heard in the Dungeons & Dragons comedy web-series The Party which won a Gold Ennie for Best Streaming Content and has had over 800K views on Youtube. He also provided music for the Hulu and Hulu Plus series Killer Sisters’ Midnight Hour which was part of the Bloody Disgusting Selects catalogue.
Brandon’s music has played in film festivals all over the world for as long as he’s been working in Hollywood. The coming-of-age international feature THE YEAR I DID NOTHING won the IFS Festival's Best Drama and Best Long Form at the Cebu Philippines International Film Fest. Two horror projects he scored, MOTION AT YOUR DOOR and DON’T RAISE THE DEAD (THE BOARD GAME), were back to back official selections at Screamfest Los Angeles. The supernatural thriller ALMA'S POND based on a YA short story by Bruce Coville received special mention at the ARFF Berlin Film Competition and won Best Drama at ARFF Amsterdam in the same year. In 2024 the feature WHERE THE DEAD GO won Best Horror Feature at the Golden State Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Brandon has received recognition for two distinctively different documentary scores, the emotional RETURN TO VIETNAM and the lighthearted THE TABLE. His fourth documentary score, TOY MASTERS, playfully underscores the strife at the Mattel toy company during the creation of their successful He-Man and the Masters of the Universe franchise. TOY MASTERS screened at the Egyptian Theater in Los Angeles in 2015 and is now finally available to audiences for the first time on Vimeo On-Demand.
In addition to his varying film score projects, Brandon was commissioned to write a piece for his main instrument, trombone. In 2019 Brandon composed an octet performed by the Red River Trombones as part of the "8x8x8" (8 pieces, 8 composers, 8 trombones) concert series at the International Trombone Festival at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. The world premiere of the completed version of Firethorn was performed in April 2021 by the TCU trombone ensemble for the 13th Annual Trombone Summit in Fort Worth, Texas. The 2024 International Trombone Festival hosted the world premiere of his latest work Aura Collage for Solo Trombone and Brass Ensemble featuring the talents of Dr. Dave Begnoche and the Center Stage Brass.
It has been an honor and rewarding challenge for Brandon to help creatively bring works by celebrated authors Ray Bradbury and Bruce Coville to life in film and music. He's composed music for a total of 6 screen adaptations for both acclaimed authors in feature length and short form, including the final film produced with Bradbury's direct involvement, RAY BRADBURY'S CHRYSALIS.
