Andrew Hewitt
bafta nominated composer, los angeles
The Composer's Voice
a cinematic sensibility
Andrew intro video to come
12 week
live online course
for
film, tv, & media
composers
Andrew Hewitt course leader
Most film-scoring courses teach tools and technique in pre-recorded videos. The Composer's Voice is 100% live and interactive, and we focus on cultivating something far more important: the inner life of your music.
We explore the narrative stance a score takes inside the film’s world, and the sensibility that allows it to speak from within the drama, rather than simply accompany it.
Great production means little if the ideas expressed are not psychologically alive and cinematically insightful.
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Over twelve weeks, a small group of participants work in a focused, high-trust space. Together we examine how music embodies the inner nature of a film - how a score aligns with, reveals, disguises, fractures, or fulfills the psychological truth within a narrative world. Through these explorations, your sense of where you speak from as a composer becomes sharper, deeper, and more personal.
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Between group sessions, weekly private 1:1 conversations offer space for anything that concerns your thinking, artistry, psychology, and cinematic sensibility - the interior ground from which your musical voice emerges.​​
Who This Is For
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Production Capable
​You're already capable in a DAW and write cues to picture. You have your own setup, create music, and are not seeking technical or technological guidance. What feels under-developed is what your music is saying, its interpretive stance in a dramatic world.
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Seeking Growth
Typical participants are post-graduate musicians and artists, early-career film composers, concert composers moving toward screen work, and media composers seeking to deepen the inner identity, psychological stance, and cinematic sensibility of their musical vision.
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Independent Learner
You prefer mature listening and debate about cinema, character, and inner life over didactic tutorials about software. You are already creating - and sense there is far more of your personal voice, dramatic instinct, and psychological responsiveness waiting to emerge.
Weekly Course Structure
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12 x 90 min group webinars
Each Monday The Composer’s Voice examines the interior stance of two contrasting film scores. We place these into direct dialogue - listening for how a composer's co-authorial voice creates or subverts cinematic meaning across disparate narrative, stylistic, psychological, and genre contexts.
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12 x 30 min private sessions
Between group sessions, each participant will have a weekly 1:1 session with the course leader. These twelve private discussions can focus on a project in progress, artistic identity, and the cinematic and psychological process of developing your own personal, interpretive voice for film.
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12 x 60 min group discussions
Each Friday session is an optional group discussion: an open space to reflect on that week's scores or films participants may bring, and the narrative stances these illuminate - along with associated questions, struggles, discoveries - in a relaxed but serious, artistically developmental setting.
I trained initially as a classical performer, and after graduating with a Masters in Music from Cambridge University, completed a year at London's Guildhall School of Music & Drama. As a singer I performed hundreds of concerts with the world's foremost ensembles, including in the scores to The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Star Wars Prequels.
I have scored twenty feature films, and numerous TV projects. My film scores include The Double, Submarine, It's What's Inside, The Stanford Prison Experiment, Bill, Villains, Mojave, The Brass Teapot, and The Sea. I have orchestrated, conducted, and produced all my scores.
I am an invited member of BAFTA, the World Soundtrack Academy, and an Associate Member PRS. I have also completed courses at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis, giving me further unique insights into the subtle psychological challenges of the composer's voice in film. I have taught privately and on the Thinkspace MA and MFA courses in film scoring. I hold dual American and British citizenship, and live in Los Angeles, CA.
Preview - 3 Score Comparisons
sincere myth / self-aware irony
interior mentality / exterior world
simulated / authentic intimacy
We contrast the sincere myth-making of Star Wars - where the music inherently believes in heroism - with the subversive, self-aware wit of Die Hard. We examine how Kamen refuses to score the protagonist, instead celebrating the antagonist while winking deconstructively at the audience.
We juxtapose the deeply intimate psychology of Shore's score for Clarice - painting the autumnal, painful, interior landscape of a single mind - against the exteriorizing industrial sounds of Terminator 2. We explore how Fiedel’s inorganic metallic palette embodies the film's plot-problem, subsuming the fate of souls within the primary fate of a civilization.
We compare the false, performative intimacy of music that seductively embodies the sheen of Lou’s detachment and simulated persona - with the quiet, emotionally truthful intimacy of ET and Elliot. Williams honestly paints the genuine, tender bond between two beings who accept their need for other beings.
Stuart Cornfeld,
Red Hour Films,
Producer The Fly, The Elephant Man
As Executive Producers of Submarine, Ben Stiller and I were overjoyed with Andrew's score. He could create anything that was needed for the drama, and he moved so effortlessly between different styles, that we were bowled over by his technical skill alone.
Dr Tom Schneller, PhD, Professor of Music,
Cornell University
It is indeed a rare composer who can develop a score so perfectly suited to its film. Andrew
is unquestionably an artist of the highest caliber and his music has helped bring many
films to life. Like Bernard Herrmann, I consider Mr. Hewitt to be a true artist, of which there are very few in
the commercial film music.
Dr Mitchell Morris, PhD, Professor of Musicology, UCLA
It is not common to find a gifted composer who is as insightful and articulate as Andrew - his scholarly level and rigor is high. He is sensitive to the complex situation of sound within a score, to crucial details of plot and gesture, and deft at weaving critical insights into a consideration of psychic mise-en-scène.
Luc Roeg,
CEO Independent Film,
Producer We Need To Talk About Kevin
Andrew's music directly impacted the success and drama of The Sea. We were very lucky to have him. This was a highly sensitive and dramatically subtle film, and he proved himself a consummate artist, working at the top of his game.
George Fenton
Oscar Nominated Composer, Gandhi, The Fisher King, Dangerous Liaisons
Andrew holds a reputation of excellence within the industry. His compositional skill and dramatic sense work in tandem, to produce scores truly crucial to the world of each film, in bespoke and tailored ways. Andrew announces himself with a clear artistic voice, and with fresh and bold vision.
Paul Haslinger
Grammy/Emmy Nominated Composer,
Underworld, Tangerine Dream
Andrew is a composer of rare single-minded passion and dedication to cinema and film-music. His scores are of the highest quality, in both technical and artistic terms. His versatility, depth, and intelligence mark him out with ease among his peers.
Course
Fee
$1,500 USD
early enrollment
$2,000 USD
standard
12 Weeks
​A single up-front fee covers:
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12 x 90m Weekly group video seminars
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12 x 60m Weekly group video discussions
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12 x 30m Private 1:1 video sessions
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Access to all shared materials and recordings
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Discord channel
Enroll early and our reduced rate equates to $125 per week, or $40 per hour of live group and private sessions.
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Payment is only requested after your application has been reviewed and accepted.
Additional 1:1 sessions may be arranged by mutual agreement, availability, and rate.
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Full weekly content is shared once your application is received.
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