LASSE ELKJÆR
NEWS AND UPDATES
SCL Award
"My Score for the feature film, Forsvundet til Halloween (The Seekers: Thrill Night) was shortlisted for the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) Davis Raksin Award for Emerging Talents.
Dec 16 2022
Soundtrack Review
"It is a robust and totally enjoyable soundtrack that gives nods in the direction of the likes of John Wiliams, Dave Grusin, Jerry Goldsmith, Danny Elfman, and John Debney and one that you should take a listen to."
MOVIE MUSIC INTERNATIONAL. (MMI).
April 2 2022
Christmas
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. - God Jul og Godt Nytår.
Kind regards,
Lasse Elkjær
Dec 24 2022
Digital Soundtrack Release
I'm excited to announce the Spotify release of the orchestral score I wrote for the Robert Nominated feature film FORSVUNDET TIL HALLOWEEN, Denmarks first Halloween Movie. The score was recorded with a 52 piece orchestra. It's old school scoring with plenty of lead motives, melodies, orchestral action, adventure, and a tad of 80's synth.
April 1 2022
Soundtrack Mastering
The orchestra score for FORSVUNDET TIL HALLOWEEN will be mastered for digital release at Bernie Grundman Mastering by Patricia Sullivan.
December 30 2021
Film Scoring Workshop
During March, I conducted several film scoring workshops for the composition students at both, Syddansk Musikkonservatorium and Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium in Denmark.
March 28 2022
Robert Award
I've been shortlisted for a ROBERT Award nomination as BEST COMPOSER for the music to the Danish feature Forsvundet til Halloween.
November 30 2021
Orchestral Recording Session
Recording session with the Budapest Art orchestra at the East Connection Music Recording, Studio 22, for the Danish Halloween featurefilm I'm currently scoring.
August 22 2021
Forsvundet til Halloween
Excited to announce that I just finished scoring the Danish featurefilm "Forsvundet til Halloween" produced by COPENHAGEN BOMBAY and directed by Philip Thomas Pedersen. The movie will premiere in Danish theaters by the 7th of October.
September 6 2021
Webinar for BFM
Thursday, April 16 & 23 at 5-7 p.m. the Industry Club for Film and Media Composers in Denmarks (BFM) is opening with their first webinar.
BFM member Lasse Elkjær will share his experiences from a busy working life in Los Angeles, where he works as a composer, orchestrator, arranger and project manager.
April 8 2020
Drag Me To Hell "Suite"
Golden Globe-nominated film composer Christopher Young's, Drag Me To Hell "Suite" was performed by the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, at its world premiere at Fimucité’s (2019) “My Favorite Fears” concert in Tenerife, Spain. I had the great honor to be involved in this project, doing additional arrangements on this suite.
Oct 17 2019
ClassMojo - Big Ideas
I’m very excited to start 2020 announcing that I’ve been collaborating with ClassDojo, the world's most-widely used communication app for pre-K-8 schools, creating the soundtrack for the 12 episodes of their latest Big Ideas TV-series (Moods and Attitudes, Big Challenges, Respect, and Positive Thinking).
Class Dojo currently serves tens of millions of children in 95% of all K-8 schools in the US, and 180 countries.
In this new Big Ideas video series, the ClassDojo monsters Mojo & Katie explore a range of emotions and overcome challenges with positivity and emotional intelligence.
The soundtrack, to be released this year, will contain several extended versions of the themes and cues from the episodes.
Jan 3 2020
Recording Session in Los Angeles
Recording session at Sonic Fuel Studios, with the Helix Collective, engineered by Damon Tedesco.
Juli 25 2019
World Premiere
Variety just announced the world premiere of the movie I recently scored When it Strikes, at the Nordic International Film Festival in New York (NIFF). NIFF is hailed as the "biggest Nordic Film Festival outside of Europe," and I am very proud to see my 4th collaboration with NYU Tisch educated, Danish Director Rikke Louise Schjødt, featured as official selection and one world premiere at the festival.
Sep 17 2019
Live Score Film Festival
Very excited to announce that I have been selected as a composer for The Los Angeles Live Score Film Festival, and am going to share the stage with a lot of talented composer friends. The music will be performed by the lovely Helix Collective ensemble.
The Los Angeles Live Score Film Festival features short films with original scores performed live-to-picture. The 2019 festival on Saturday, July 20th at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre is presented by Helix Collective in collaboration with the Academy of Scoring Arts. Films for the 2019 festival are curated by the faculty at the L.A. Film School, New York Film Academy – Los Angeles, and Columbia College, Hollywood.
July 20th at the Barnsdall Gallery Theatre!
May 23 2019
Q&A
Taking part in a Q&A session following the screening of Sticks, selected for the Fulbright Association LA Film Festival. Here I talk about the steps and process of writing a gothic score for Sticks, from initial conversations to remote spotting sessions, and inviting a very special performer.
The event was hosted by the New York Film Academy on May 4, 2019.
May 8 2019
Pulling Back the Curtain: the Best Kept Secrets in Film Scoring Concert
Helix Collective will present a concert of original music from many of Hollywood’s orchestrators, music editors, and soundtrack team members on Saturday, March 16th at the Barnsdall Art Center Theatre in Los Angeles, bringing their music into the spotlight and onto the concert stage, with a small chamber orchestra conducted by PhilPopham.
The concert features the music of composers Joseph Carrillo, Amit May Cohen, Lasse Elkjær, Reuven Herman, RyanHumphrey, Catherine Joy Music, Jonathan Keith, Shie Rozow, and VictoriaRuggiero, who have worked on some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters, beautiful independent films, and everything in between. (White Bear PR)
Marts 11 2019
Jyllands Posten
Thank you to the Danish newspaper, Jyllands Posten, for their new article, describing my work as a film composer in Los Angeles! The article is published in their weekly segment “Global Danes.”
Jan 11 2019
Viking Blood
Today I am sending out the very last cue for the feature film Viking Blood. It's been a couple of very exciting and intense months creating this score, and I will be looking very much forward to seeing this movie on the big screen.
Dec 15 2018
Very Merry Rockin' Good Christmas
I was very excited to be asked by Merrill and Jay Osmond to be featured as a guitarist on their new Christmas album -I play on the track "Little Drummer Boy."
Dec 23 2018
Demons
Kristen Lawrence just released her new solo album: Hallowe'en: Night of Spirits. I was so excited to be invited to guest star as a guitarist on the track Demons.
Mb Gordy on drums, Wanda Ortiz (Iron Maidens) on bass, Kristen on keyboards and vocals, and me on the electric six string.
Oct 3 2018
Tina Guo
Remote Recording Session with Tina Guo for the horror movie Sticks I'm currently scoring.
April 16, 2018
YouTube
Look out for content on YouTube
Oct 1 2018
Best Music Award
STICKS JUST WON for best use of music and sound at the Danish film festival Filmkraf t2018.
"Sticks has an extremely exciting soundtrack, where both sound and music carry the horror to the point of excellence." Filmkraft 2018 (DK)
A special thanks to Tina Guo (cello) for your lovely performance.
June 9 2018
Budapest Art Orchestra
Recording a 40 piece string orchestra
with the Budapest Art Orchestra, for the feature film Lost Souls.
March 17 2018
Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive
I will take part in the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive as Auditor at the lovely Warner Brothers' Eastwood Scoring Stage. The program was founded by David L Newman together with Angel Velez, and this year will be led by Conrad Pope, Angel Velez and William Ross. A big thank you to The Danish Augustinus Fonden for supporting me.
Jan 9 2018
RAE
The short film RAE, which I scored, accumulated more than 400K views on YouTube, and was shared more than 2000 times.
RAE was released on DUST. DUSTx is the brand’s post cable network with current and upcoming distribution on Roku, DirecTV, Comcast, Vudu, Sling, Vizio, Samsung, NBC Watchback, Sinclair and more. Currently, DUST is watched by more than 4M people across all platforms, and frequently hosts sold out screenings of sci-fi content in major cities across the U.S.
Dec 20 2017
Conan O'Brian Trying Wilsons Heart
Today Conan O'Brien tried out Wilson's Heart, an Oculus Rift game I've been working on as scoring assistant for Christopher Young!
Click here to watch full video!
May 2, 2017
Midnight Texas
Attending Comic-Con in San Diego, and the bilboard for the NBC show, Midnight Texas is up. I worked on this show as a music arranger. Score by film composer Jacob Groth (The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo, Dead Man Down...)
July 22 2017
Nordic Noir LA
Nordic Noir LA concert at The Greek Theatre, with music by film composer Jacob Groth (The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo, Dead Man Down...). I did orchestral arrangements, and conducted the gospel choir during the encore.
"Nordic Noir LA is a one-night only event, featuring music composed and performed by Jacob Groth and The Danish Film Harmonics, all under the night sky in Griffith Park."
Sep 26 2016
The Monkey King 2 CD Release
INTRADA just released film composer Christopher Young' s epic action/adventure score for The Monkey King 2. I worked on this movie as Chris's scoring assistant.
July 16 2016
The Monkey King Theatrical Release
Celebrating Chinese New Year with the release of The Monkey King 2 movie, which I worked on as one of film composer Christopher Young's scoring assistants.
Feb 5 2016
Nightmare on Elm Street - 8 Box Set
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET - 8 CD BOX SET. The deluxe package contains all 8 soundtracks from the original "Nightmare On Elm Street" series, over 8 hours of music including almost 3 hours of bonus tracks! I did additional suite arrangements on the Nightmare On Elm Street Suite "Suite Dreams," with music composed by Christopher Young.
Oct 31, 2015
Killing Season
Christopher Young's soundtrack for "Killing Season" was recently released on Intrada. It offers his exciting symphonic potrait for cello and orchestra as a fully-drawn classical work in four movements. A facinating project, which I was involved in as an additional scoring assistant.
June 8, 2015
Midnight Texas
I did orchestrations on MODUS, music composed by Danish composer Jacob Groth (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, and The Girl Who Played With Fire.) The show is currently airing on Swedish TV4.
Oct 17, 2015
Dead Man Down
I did orchestrations on Dead Man Down, music composed by Danish composer Jacob Groth (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo,The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, and The Girl Who Played With Fire.) The feature premiers in Danish theaters tomorrow.
June 5 2013
In Absentia
I composed the score for In Absentia, which currently is number 1 on Ekko Shortlist - a shortfilm list, that represents the best shortfilms in Denmark.
July 29. 2013
Unforgettable
I worked as an orchestrator on Unforgettable, music composed by Danish composer Jacob Groth (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, and The Girl Who Played With Fire.)
July 28 2013
