Biography

Los Angeles-based composer.Rob was born and raised in Southern California, and developed an affinity for film music at an early age. Although he had no formal training as a child, he spent hours analyzing the scores of John Williams & Christophe Beck and how they worked in collaboration with film. Rob picked up the guitar at age 13, and spent the next five years embracing the instrument and learning how to write. Rob studied Music Theory & Composition at the University of New Mexico, and then spent six months under the tutelage of world renowned composer Christopher Young (Spider-Man 3, The Grudge, Ghost Rider). Rob has scored 8 feature films, dozens of shorts, and three dozen different TV series & pilots, including the National Geographic show Known Universe (2009), SyFy's Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files (2010), PBS' Roadtrip Nation (2004), Speed Channel's Car Science (2011), and TruTV's Police P.O.V. (2011).

His 2012 IAWTV Award-Winning score for the series Night of the Zombie King (2010) is a wonderful mix of acoustic folk and epic fantasy; "My Bitchy-Witchy Paris Vacation" is a lovely blend of drama and comedy ala "Under the Tuscan Sun"; "End Result" is non-stop "24"-like action; and his Award-Nominated score for the scifi comedy series Solo: The Series (2010) is an eclectic grab bag of Asian, Middle Eastern and Jazz styles.

Rob is scoring the horror features "The Rental" & "Love in the Time of Monsters," The Social Nework meets Wall Street show "Cost Of Capital," music for several Discovery & TruTV shows, readying a new CD compilation of television & film scores, and writing his second book, about composing for television & film in the indie world, and how to make a living doing it. He resides in Los Angeles with his fiancé, Producer Allison Vanore.
- IMDb mini biography by: NG