Gavin Brivik

Named one of the Society of Composers and Publishers’ “Film Composers to Watch,” Gavin Brivik has won numerous awards, including the World Soundtrack Award for “Best Composition by a Young International Composer,” the ASCAP Jimmy Van Heusen Film Composer Award, the Alan Menken Composer Award, and the distinguished Elmer Bernstein Film Scoring Award.

Brivik recently scored How to Blow Up a Pipeline, which premiered at TIFF and was distributed by Neon in 2023. He also scored Wild Indian, starring Michael Greyeyes, Jesse Eisenberg and Kate Bosworth, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and the score for the film was nominated for a World Soundtrack Award. Other recent projects include A&E’s Documentary Series The Secrets of Playboy, and the Paramount/Blumhouse film The Visitor, directed by Justin Lange.

Brivik’s credits include the 90th Academy Award-nominated short, My Nephew Emmett; Netflix’s Emmy-nominated original series Living Undocumented, produced by Selena Gomez; Netflix/Blumhouse Productions’ Cam, which premiered at Fantasia Film Festival in 2018, starring Madeline Brewer; as well as numerous narrative and documentary short films.

Brivik studied contemporary classical and electronic music composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he combined his roots as an indie rock and folk guitarist with orchestral and electronic instruments. Brivik went on to receive his Masters in Music Composition for Film and Multimedia at New York University.

Gavin released his debut solo album, “Realms and Forms,” with bitbird Records and MusicBed.

FILM:

Faces of Death
Production Company: Angry Films, Legendary Entertainment
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Producers: Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, John Burrud

Sender
Production Company: Comet Pictures
Director: Russell Goldman
Producers: Jamie Lee Curtis, Molly Hallam

Deepfaking Sam Altman
Production Company: Hartbeat
Director: Adam Bhala Lough
Producers: Harold Beron, Kevin Hart

Barron’s Cove
Production Company: Mandalay Pictures
Director: Evan Ari Kelman
Producers: Jason Michael Berman, Jordan Beckerman, Will Raynor

How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Production Company: Chrono
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Producers: Ariela Barer, Alex Black, Alex Hughes

Wild Indian
Director: Lyle Mitchell Corbine, Jr.
Producer: Blake Pickens

CAM
Production Company: Blumhouse
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Producers: Adam Hendricks

The Seventh Day
Production Company: Voltage Pictures
Director: Justin P. Lange
Producers: Dallas Sonnier

Nafi’s Father
Production Company: Joyedidi
Director: Mamadou Dia
Producers: Mamadou Dia, Maba Ba

Minor Premise
Production Company: Relic Pictures
Director: Eric Schultz
Producers: Noah Lang, Michael Prall

Soeurs De Glisse
Production Company: Divide/Conquer
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Producers: Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks

My Nephew Emmett
Production Company: Shorts International
Director: Kevin Wilson Jr.
Producers: Lauren L. Owen, Kevin Wilson Jr.

Sable
Production Company: InnoVate Productions
Director: Michael Matteo Rossi
Producers:  Javier Perez Frombold, Ayla Kell

TELEVISION:

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The Pitt
Production Company: John Wells Productions / HBO Max
Creator: R. Scott Gemill

Secrets of Playboy
Production Company: The Intellectual Property Corporation
Directors: Alexandra Dean, Arlene Nelson
Producer: Alexandra Dean

The Visitor
Production Company: Blumhouse
Director: Justin P. Lange
Producers: Jason Blum, Greg Gilreath, Lauren Downey

Living Undocumented
Production Company: Netflix
Director: Anna Chai, Aaron Saidman
Producer: Cris Graves

Active Shooter: America Under Fire
Production Company: The Intellectual Property Corporation
Director: Star Price
Producers: Patrick Byrnes, Joshua Rofe

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