Biography

Veteran composer Dean Grinsfelder has provided music for hundreds of film, television and interactive projects over the past two decades. His selected credits include:

• Trailers and Promos ("Rogue One: A Star Wars Story", "Thor", "Tangled")
• Commercials (Disney, Ford, Samsung, Priceline)
• High-profile Documentaries ("Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures", "Dinosaur Planet", "Alien Planet", "Science of Star Wars")
• Television Series ("Wolverine & The X-Men", "Kings of Atlantis", "The Incredible Hulk"),
• Top-selling Video Games (Warner Brothers Interactive's "Injustice: Gods Among Us" and "Mortal Kombat 9", Electronic Arts' "Ultima:Ascention", Microsoft's "Freelancer")
• Feature Films ("Tribes on the Edge", "P.S. Your Cat Is Dead", "Stonebrook")
• Theme Park Rides (Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, iWERKS's "Superstition" & Discovery Channel's "Wings")
• Game Shows & Pageants (Miss Universe/Miss USA Pageants, "Lingo" Game Show)
• Logos & Corporate I.D's (AMC Theaters, Bristol Bay Productions, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment)

Dean earned a primetime Emmy Award for music editing his score for Discover Channel's "Dinosaur Planet" series (2003-04), an Emmy nomination for his original score for "Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures" (2007), and a primetime Emmy nomination for music editing his score for Discovery Channel's "Before We Ruled the Earth" (2002-03). In addition, Dean has received multiple Telly Awards and Mobius Awards for his work in advertising, and numerous other accolades and recognition across a variety of media types.

Dean has a passion for projects that inspire, uplift, motivate and emotionally move an audience. In an achievement for which he is perhaps most proud, a private White House screening of "Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures - Voyage to Kure" compelled then-president George W. Bush to implement the single largest act of conservation in U.S. history by declaring the Northwest Hawaiian Islands a Marine National Monument.

Equally comfortable in front of an orchestra or a wall of computers, Dean brings forth a broad range of musical and technological skills, including composition, orchestration, conducting, music editing & supervision, production, engineering & recording. Dean has served as the Head of Production for Q-Factory Music, Inc., a boutique film trailer music library headed by industry legend Robert Etoll. In his role as Executive Producer for Visual Music, Dean and collaborator Tom Seufert have created scores for countless national and international commercials.
- IMDb mini biography by: Dean Grinsfelder