Director, Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television
Clinical Professor of Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television

Instruments/Expertise: Film Scoring, Composition

(213) 821-1353 phone
(213) 740-3217 fax
btk@usc.edu
MUS 207

Personal site: http://www.briankingmusic.com

Biography

Brian King, director and assistant professor of clinical scoring for motion pictures and television, is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and USC. Mr. King has been working in the industry as a composer, orchestrator, player, engineer and producer. Some of his feature film projects include Rushmore, The Rugrats Movie and Get Bruce working with the likes of Mark Mothersbaugh and Michael Feinstein. He has composed and produced music for episodic television including The Proud Family, King of Queens and The Love Chronicles, as well as composing additional music for a recent VH1 feature film Play'd. He also scored and produced the music for the off-Broadway theatrical production of the comedy The Godfadda Workout.

Before moving to Los Angeles in 1997, Mr. King was the owner of a recording studio in Atlanta working with such artists as REM, the B52s, The Indigo Girls, Medeski, Martin and Wood, John McLaughlin and the subdudes with Bonnie Raitt . He continues to work with artists in the record business as well as the film and television industry. He has been on the faculty of the USC Thornton School of Music since 1998.