Composer & Orchestrator for Media
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ABOUT

Ewan Clark conducting the Wellington Chamber Orchestra in 2017

Ewan Clark conducting the Wellington Chamber Orchestra in 2017

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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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

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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)

 

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