ABOUT
Ewan Clark is an award-winning composer and orchestrator based in Wellington, New Zealand, specialising in music for film, television, and games. His score for The Turn of the Screw won Best Music in a Feature Film at the Istanbul Film Awards 2020 and Best Original Score at Canada’s 4th Annual Terror in the Bay Film Festival. It was also a finalist for the 2021 APRA award for Best Music in a Film. He has scored the feature-length docudrama Doubt: The Scott Watson Case (TVNZ1) and numerous short films and documentaries, notably The World In Your Window (best fiction short at the Melbourne International Film Festival, co-scored with Rhian Sheehan) and Shmeat, the first of a string of successful collaborations with award-winning director Matasila Freshwater.
As an orchestrator, Ewan has worked on feature films The Inventor (starring Stephen Fry and Daisy Ridley), One Thousand Ropes and Beyond the Edge. The One Thousand Ropes won Best Original Music in a Film at the 2017 APRA Silver Scrolls and Beyond the Edge was nominated for the same award in 2014. Ewan has arranged songs for the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra’s collaboration with Tiki Taane (2021) and for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s collaborations with Alien Weaponry (2021) and Ria Hall (2022). Ewan’s other compositions and orchestrations have been performed in concert by the Philharmonia Orchestra (London), Baroque Voices, and all of NZ’s regional orchestras. Ewan has studied composition for screen at the Royal College of Music (MMus, 2012) and The New Zealand School of Music (PhD, 2018).
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TESTIMONIALS
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Credits
Orchestration
The Paper Bag Plan (2024), feature film score composed by Alex Mandel, dir. Anthony Lucero
The Inventor (2023), animated feature score composed by Alex Mandel, dir. Jim Capobianco
Super Giant Robot Brothers (2022), television series score composed by Alex Mandel, dir. Mark Andrews
Hippocratic (2017), documentary score composed by Stephen Gallagher, dir. Mike Hill
We Are Stars (2015), planetarium dome show score composed by Rhian Sheehan, dir. Max Crow
One Thousand Ropes (2016), feature film score composed by Tim Prebble, dir. Tusi Tamasesi
Beyond the Edge (2013), feature film score composed by David Long, dir. Leanne Pooley
Back to the Moon for Good (2013), planetarium dome show score composed by Rhian Sheehan, dir. Max Crow
Music preparation
When We Go To War (2014), television series score composed by Tom McLeod
The Ground We Won (2014), documentary score composed by David Long
Under The Mountain (2009), feature film score composed by Victoria Kelly
Composition for feature films
The Turn of the Screw (2019), dir. Alex Glavin
Doubt: The Scott Watson Case (2016), dir. Yvonne MacKay
Hotspot: Log in at Own Risk (2012), dir. Vitor Vilela
The Sunshine Girl (2009), dir. Nicole Perry
Composition for documentaries
Deer Wars (2019), dir. Paul Roy
199 Little Heroes (2018), three episodes directed by Bonnie Philp (Lucy, Selwyn, and Kevar)
Gina (2015), dir. Wendell Cook
Chilika: Jewel of Odisha (2013), dir. Shekar Dattatri
The Truth About Tigers (2010), dir. Shekar Dattatri
SOS: Save Our Sholas (2009), dir. Shekar Dattatri
Composition for short films — drama
The World In Your Window (2016), dir. Zoe McIntosh (co-composed with Rhian Sheehan)
Unit 6 (2014), dir. Jane Sherning Warren
Osmonde (2014), dir. Elsa Bauverd
A Boy's Tale (2013), dir. James Cork
Odd (2012), dir. Karim Elshenawy
Spoils (2012), dir. Sebastian Barner-Ramussen
The Outsider (2012), dir. Nikka Lorak
Money Can't Buy (2010), dir. Nusrat Howard-Moore
Carnal Seasoning (2008), dir. Chris Tout
A Son Rising (2008), dir. Rory Leighton
Composition for short films — comedy
The Wishboners (2018), dir. Jaimee Poipoi
Loner (2014), dir. Wendell Cooke
Snowmen (2014), dir. Jonathan Brough
Keep it Up! (2008), dir. Adam Fresco
Knock Three Times (2008), dir. Aston Garratt
Are You Lonesome (2004), dir. Viola Löffler
Composition for short films — thriller
M.I.A. (2020), dir. Nicolette Hurnen
An Arm and a Leg (2017), dir. Jonathan King
Let Down Your Hair (2015), dir. James Ashcroft
Internal (2012), dir. Oliver McGuirk
Hell Hath (2009), dir. Chris Tout
An Aggressive Gift (2008), dir. Chris Tout
Composition for short films — fantasy or science fiction
PIGS (2016), dir. James Ashcroft
The Space Trash Men (2013), dir. Ben Childs
Birdsong (2013), dir. Ben Childs
El Tiempo de la Luz (2011), dir. Rebeca Sánchez
Kids Rule (2011), dir. James Cork
Composition for short films — animation
The Real Rare Arctic Firefly (2017), dir. Matasila Freshwater
Wellingtopia (2016), dir. Matasila Freshwater
Shmeat (2015), dir. Matasila Freshwater
Other composition credits
Teine Sā — The Ancient Ones ep. 4 (2021), dir. Matasila Freshwater (TV series)
Mum’s Voices (2020), dir. Ash Patel (web series)
Into the Pickle Jar (2019), dir. Matasila Freshwater (web series)
Scapegoat (2011), dir. Carl Chetty (radio play)
Dr Sally and the Suicidal Sleepwalker (2009), dir. Chris Tout (web series)
Paw Justice (2009), dir. Craig Dunn (television commercial)