Andrew Osano
Film Composer & Orchestrator

Music for worlds that don’t exist yet.

Andrew Osano composes and orchestrates for film, series and games, from a full orchestra at full tilt to a single cello in an empty room.

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Andrew Osano, arms crossed
Credits & collaborators
  • Saban FilmsThe Old Way
  • MBC GroupRashash
  • S2 GamesHeroes of Newerth
  • KING Art
    GamesThe Dwarves · Black Mirror
  • City of Prague
    PhilharmonicA World Apart
  • Budapest Art
    OrchestraThe Dwarves
  • Andrews UniversityComposition faculty
I. Selected Work

Films, games and the orchestras that played them.

A Nicolas Cage western, a record-breaking streaming series, years of music for a major online game, and sessions with orchestras in Prague and Budapest.

Featured · Feature film · 2023

The Old Way

Nicolas Cage’s first western. Andrew orchestrated Andrew Morgan Smith’s score.

Role
Orchestrator
Composer
Andrew Morgan Smith
Starring
Nicolas Cage, Ryan Kiera Armstrong
Director
Brett Donowho
Released
Saban Films, 2023

The Dwarves

Video game · KING Art Games · 2016

Choir arrangements for Benny Oschmann’s score, recorded with the Budapest Art Orchestra under Daniel Dinyes and Peter Pejtsik. IFMCA nomination: verify before citing

Rashash

Series · MBC Studios for Shahid · 2021

The largest Saudi drama MBC Studios had produced. Directed by Colin Teague. Andrew’s role

Crystal Inferno

Feature film · 2017

Skyscraper thriller with Claire Forlani and Jamie Bamber. Directed by Eric Summer. Andrew’s role

Simple Creature

Feature film · 2016

Science-fiction thriller written and directed by Andrew Finnigan. Andrew’s role

Screen

  • The Old WayOrchestrator · 2023
  • RashashSeries · 2021
  • Cadia: The World WithinTrailer music · 2019
  • Crystal InfernoFeature · 2017
  • Simple CreatureFeature · 2016
  • The Roof’s EdgeFilm · dir. Shannon Theule
  • La Mort Nous Guérira TousShort · dir. Hüseyin Aydın Gürsoy
  • Apollon und DaphneAnimated short · dir. Thomas Müller
  • RefugeDocumentary · Liberty in North Korea

Games

  • Heroes of NewerthOriginal music, 30+ cues · S2 Games · 2014–15
  • Black MirrorAdditional music · 2017
  • The DwarvesChoir arrangement · 2016
  • Live showstitles from Andrew

Orchestras

  • City of Prague Philharmonic OrchestraA World Apart
  • Budapest Art OrchestraThe Dwarves
  • Dynamedion orchestra, GermanyThe Coronation, Trailblazer

Recordings & Teaching

  • SuperheroesAlbum · 2020
  • The TransformationEP · 2018
  • Andrews UniversityComposition faculty

Complete credits on IMDb.

Live orchestra

Real players in real rooms.

Andrew’s music has been recorded in Prague, Budapest and Germany. This is the Budapest Art Orchestra recording The Dwarves.

Footage: KING Art Games
II. Listen

Hear it for yourself.

  1. A World ApartPerformed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra2:47
  2. The Sylvan SpriteFantasy · performed by the Dynamedion orchestra1:44
  3. TrailblazerFull orchestra with tribal percussion by Robin Rapsys2:19
  4. A Hero’s CallOrchestra and choir2:45
  5. A Story To Be ToldIntimate · solo violin, Maria Grigoryeva4:26
  6. Hidden WorldTrailer music for the fantasy film Cadia: The World Within0:59

Sixteen of 77 tracks on SoundCloud. Albums on Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer.

III. Services

Three ways to work together.

Original score

Music written to your picture, from spotting session to final delivery. Film, animation, games and live shows.

Orchestration

For composers on a deadline. Your mockups turned into clean, playable scores and parts that sound right on the first take.

Live orchestra

Real players, within an independent budget. Andrew’s music has been recorded by orchestras across Europe, and yours can be too.

IV. About
Andrew Osano with his cello

It started with a cello.

Andrew picked up the cello at nine and was writing his own pieces not long after. In middle school he found out that writing music for movies was an actual job, and that was that.

Since then he has scored feature films, video games and live shows, with collaborators from Los Angeles to China. He is most at home in fantasy and animation, where the music gets to be as big as the story.

He teaches composition at Andrews University in Michigan, where he also coaches the acrobatic gymnastics team. Different kind of timing; same discipline.

V. Contact

Tell him about your film.

What it is, when you need music, and roughly what you have to spend. He’ll reply within a couple of days.

Andrew Osano leaning on a red cello case