James Newton Howard,
John Powell,
John Williams,
Danny Elfman,
Thomas Newman,
Harry Gregson-Williams,
Hans Zimmer,
Howard Shore.
Dream Theater, Jordan Rudess.
Sounds Like
David Lazar.
I'd like to think that my music has its own unique feel and style to it, although I'm happy to admit that at times I may be influenced by various writers whom I admire, allbeit depending on the style in which I'm composing in.
MUSICIAN
David Lazar is a Brisbane based screen composer, pianist and teacher. He loves to be immerse in the writing of a score or a piece of music, and then discovering the incredible talent from Brisbane musicians during the collaborative recording stages of the creative process. He is also known for working well with samples from his extensive musical instrument library, as well as programming and working with electronic sounds and rhythms. He has a strong interest in world and cross cultural music alongside his soundtrack, classical, electronica, jazz, and rock interests.
David has completed a Bachelor of Music (B.Mus) and a Master of Music (M.Mus) in film composition. He has also been playing piano for twenty-two years, holding a C.Mus.A (AMEB) in classical piano performance, and an A. Dip.A (ANZCA) in modern piano performance, and continues to play to audiences regularly. David is a member of the Gamble Sisters ensemble, a jazz/swing band, which is performing next at the Woodford Folk Festival in December.
All in all, David has provided music for over 50 projects ranging from documentaries, promotional, animations and various lengthed films. Recent projects include providing music for a promotional video for the company 'Givaudan' which has manufactured fragrences for Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, scoring the award winning short film 'Carpool' starring Australian actress Kerry Armstrong, and writing music for the opening titles for a Singaporean TV show called "Purnama (Full Moon Nights)". He won the QNFA Award for 'Best Original Screen Music' for the film 'Broken Road' in 2009.
PHOTOGRAPHER
David is also a photographer who loves travelling and capturing moments of life and beauty. His favourite styles of photography are portraiture and landscape, and photos that contain an element of 'cannot be captured exactly again'; that is expressive people shots, action shots and any scenario with a unique aspect to it. In 2009, he was the Overall Winner in the Intrepid Photography Competition. He won the Best Wildlife 2008 category and the Best Culture and Portrait 2007 category in the Peregrine Photography of the World Competition. He also won the Best Landscape 2007 category in the Intrepid Adventure Photo Competition, for the photo 'Trichy Temple' which was also recently auctioned for charity in Melbourne. He has had numerous publications in JPGMag and Intrepid Travel Magazines. Below are some of his photos from journies around the globe - visit www.pbase.com/david_lazar for all the galleries.
hey! we are trying to change something... our new singer erik can't be a full member of dreamscape because the stess to travel a lot is affecting his health. so we decided to work with more than one singer - honestly we will work with even more than two... hopefully you will like that idea! we like it a lot because we will be very flexible and our sound will become even more complex! kind regards! DREAMSCAPE (progressive metal from germany) (new cd november 2009! - buy or let die!)
PS: always believe in your dreams! and don't get frightened if they are becoming real! - because for a believer they will!
"Also
hugely enjoyable, highly original AND psychically useful is the music
of Australian duo The Scrapes, whose fiery epic guitar and abandoned
Mithraic fiddle pieces evoke images of lost Keltic lands inundated by
the oceans, lost Iberian & Armorican sea peoples and lost times
from beyond the beyond." Julian Cope
I just wanted to let you know, that a new track of mine is waiting for your oppinion. It's called "run the self" and its the first track after a decade of music production, that I sung myself.
If you like it, you can DOWNLOAD IT in high quality FOR FREE. just check out my blog for the link and have fun ;O)
hi! iam wolfgang the guitarist of dreamscape, and i believe in an act of nature beyond control!
don't trust simply the school medizine and the pharmaceutical industry: cancer is healable! please google vitamin B 17 or apricot kernel.
believe in yourself and in your dreams! you will succeed if you don't harm other beeings with the result!
rebirth is evidenced! we are all dateless powerfull angel-like beeings.
ever heard of mirror neurons? its the newest scientific awareness. we live in our own movie and everything what happens has to do with our feelings, thoughts, doings and words.
iam very sorry for this interference... but i have to follow my conscience.
kind regards! wolfgang of dreamscape (progressive metal from germany) (new cd spring 2009! - buy or let die!)
hi! iam wolfgang the guitarist of dreamscape. we are part of your myspace family.
"You've got to follow your passion. You've got to figure out what it is you love. who you really are. And have the courage to do that. I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams." O.W.
we follow our passion! we love to make music with dreamscape! what's about your dreams?
kind regards! DREAMSCAPE (progressive metal from germany) (new cd spring 2009!)
Hello :] Thanks for the add. I saw your "Jungle Temple" on Earthshots and you mentioned that you are a musician. So I thought I'd look for you and see if your music was as good as your photography. Dude, I have to say, you are one incredibly talented artist! :]
David, I enjoyed listening to your new score. I love it when I listen to music and can hear the theme... You do this very well! Have a great trip and bring us back some lovely photographs of your travels!
Thanks for being a HDFEST MUSIC friend. Lots of filmmakers and musicians have been signing up and we are seeing deals happen. Glad to see you are interested in what we are doing with matching musicians and filmmakers.
"When I'm Lost" was one of my first compositions I started working on when I was about 12 yrs old. It is my mother's favorite. Believe it or not, I composed it before the movie ever came out...but I do hear the same overtones as well. I enjoyed the soundtrack. Thomas Newman is one of my favorites. I especially like his work in the movie "Road to Perdition". Thanks for your kind words in return. I look forward to hearing more of your music!
i noticed Harry Gregson-Williams in your influences list. he's my favourite composer because he has done the music to the Metal Gear Solid games, minus the first one.
Coincidence? I'm actually i member of the ozprog forum, and thats how i know about you're band, and you lol. And by the way... Fireworks is one of the most beautiful pieces of music i've ever heard
LOL David you crack me up :) in a good way of course! Just makes me laugh to see how much you've accomplished in comparison to someone like... me :P u're so so so talented! Anyways, am definately moving to Wagga next year...in 2 minds about that one, but i think we'll have a big do at the end of the year! we'll keep you posted most def'. let me kno what else u're doing k?
Hey Dave how are you?? Yay i can see your awesome piccies whenever I want now :) Love it!! I'm going to Japan in December so I'm gonna try and get some hot shots (they won't be as good as yours but I'll try!) Haha, well catch up soon I hope.. Maybe the twins' first birthday? :)
