Anne-Kathrin Elisabeth Dern is a German film composer, currently residing in Los Angeles, California. She worked on several TV, movie, and video game titles, including Microsoft’s “HALO V: Guardians”, Riot Games’ “League of Legends”, ABC’s “Galavant”, FOX’s “Gracepoint”, Disney’s “Penn Zero: Part-time Hero”, Disney’s “Tinkerbell: The Pirate Fairy”, Galaxy Studios’ “A Broken Man”, Universal’s “Cabinet of Souls”, and several more. She also wrote and produced the jingle to a national advertising campaign by Warren Douglas for the brand “Tyson”. She’s currently working on the highly anticipated Warner Bros. / Skydance blockbuster production “Geostorm”.

Anne studied film scoring at the private film music academy “musicube” (Germany) in 2007/2008, followed by a Bachelor’s degree in “Composition for Film & Theater” at the acclaimed ArtEZ Conservatory (Netherlands) from 2008-2012. The Film Scoring Certificate Program at UCLA concluded her academic studies in 2013.

From early 2013 until late 2014, Anne has been known to work as a full-time staff composer for the LA based music production houses “Hollywood Scoring” and “Powerhouse Music Productions”, specializing in music for TV, Video Games, and Motion Picture Advertising. At the same time, she was also a member of their sister company “Cinesamples” as part of the sample development department, filling the position as demo composer, beta lead, sample editor, and Kontakt Programmer. She mainly contributed to the CineSeries and the WorldSeries product lines. Anne has extensive experience in creating custom virtual instruments for composers worldwide, her most recent contribution being a custom percussion library for Ninja Tracks. Additionally, she was on the beta testing team for VIR’s “Apollo: Cinematic Guitars” (released on June 4th 2015) and composed an official demo for the product. Her latest music software involvement was a contribution to SonicSmiths’ first release called “The Foundry” (released on August 21st 2015) for which she also joined the beta team and wrote an official demo called “The Founders’ Destiny”.

Over time, Anne started to work for several LA based composers such as Christopher Lennertz (Red Castle Inc. / Sonic Fuel Studios), William Ross (Momentum RLP), Jerome Leroy (Momentum RLP), Ryan Shore, Pinar Toprak, and several more. Additionally, Anne frequently works with Belgian director, editor, and screen writer Julien Kerknawi (Stolepark, A Broken Man). Their latest collaboration was screened at the Cannes Film Festival, won a prestigious Remi Award at the Houston World Film Fest and earned Anne a nomination for “Best Soundtrack” at the CinePublic Film Festival.