A MÚSICA DO FILME

(C)2010 Tony Berchmans

Tony Berchmans is a composer, music producer and great film music lover. He started studying music at the age of 7, having classes of piano, cello, flute and musical theory.  He got in music production as keyboardist, composer, arranger and recording technician, and in 1992 he founded Lay Audio music production, a small company dedicated to compose and produce audio.

Engineer with a degree in Communications, he’s been working in the audio production business, coordinating, composing and producing sound for radio, tv, cinema, internet in hundreds of commercial projects, among them a big production of an operatic orchestral music score recorded in Rome (Italy) for an advertising campaign. Since 2001, he is an associate producer at Sound Design, a brazilian audio production company focused on the advertising market, working for clients such as GM, Kodak, Microsoft, Telefonica, Johnson&Johnson, Unilever, Procter&Gamble, Volkswagen, Motorola, Intel and dozens of others.

As a musician, he recorded on albums and performed in shows of some creative brazilian artists, such as Celso Pixinga. He has produced an downtempo music project called Hi-Pass, joined by canadian singer Lyndsay Blanch, brazilian vocalist and actress Vânia Canto and guitarist and producer L.P.Bergmann. Also he has created and produced scores for short movies, among them “O Retrato da Felicidade”, starring Ana Lucia Torres and Wagner Molina.

Frequently, he presents lectures and workshops about sound production in several important cultural and academic brazilian organizations, and writes about film scores and sound design to websites and magazines.

Having a wide knowledge about film music production backstages, in May 2006, he released his first book “The Movie’s Music - All you’d like to know about film music”, one of the very few books related to the subject written in portuguese.

In 2007, Tony Berchmans was the curator of the “1st International Film Music Conference”, a huge event that was joined by important names of film music, such as Ennio Morricone, Gustavo Santaolalla and Antonio Pinto, among several other composers, directors, and special guests connected to film music. The festival took place in Rio de Janeiro, and it was the first of its kind and size in all South America.