- Born
- Birth nameAnne-Kathrin Elisabeth Dern
- Height5′ 1¾″ (1.57 m)
- Anne-Kathrin Elisabeth Dern (*July 30, 1987) is a German-American film composer and CEO of e-Quality Music Productions LLC, residing in Los Angeles, California. She is mostly known for her scores to several Netflix titles, her educational work on her YouTube channel, as well as her video game work for Tencent Games and Vertigo Games.
She has collaborated with and assisted composers such as Christopher Lennertz, Klaus Badelt, Alan Menken, Steve Jablonsky, Ryan Shore, William Ross, and Pinar Toprak. Additionally, she has interned at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions and was a selected participant of the 2016 ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis.
Dern also frequently works on Hallmark titles. Her horror-thriller movie "The Devil Conspiracy" (Samuel Goldwyn) celebrated its wide theatrical release in January 2023. Continuing in 2024, Dern wrote the score for the first part of the highly anticipated "Woodwalkers" trilogy (2024-2027) and the Metro franchise spin-off "Metro Awakening" by Vertigo Games / Force Field.
She holds award nominations from the Society of Composers and Lyricists, ASCAP, the International Film Music Critics Association, the Jerry Goldsmith Awards, and the Hollywood Music in Media Awards; the album Women Warriors: Voices of Change which features her music alongside other female composers won a Grammy Award in 2022. Dern is also a member of the Academy for Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Television Academy.
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- Gender / Gender identityFemale
- Pronounsshe/her
- traditional classical orchestral scoring style with mainly thematic writing
- Next to being fluent in German, English, and French, Dern had to learn how to read, write, and speak fluent Dutch in order to pursue her studies at the ArtEZ Conservatory.
- Dern was selected as one of 12 composers out of over 300 applicants to participate in the annual ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis in 2016.
- Dern was one of the 10 female composers to present their work at the first installment of the Future Is Female concert series in May 2017. She conducted the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra led by Mark Robertson throughout the entire second half of the concert.
- Dern has extensive knowledge of virtual instrument programming. She has worked for commercial sampling companies such as Cinesamples, SonicSmiths, and Big Fish Audio as a sample editor, Kontakt programmer, and beta tester.
- Dern is a frequent collaborator of the soundtrack label "MovieScore Media", owned and operated by Mikael Carlsson.
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