Bio

Kyle Cooke-Gilbert is an Austin based composer of over 40 animations, films, and video games, many of which have gone on to be screened at various festivals or expos – including Rough Cut Film Festival, Philly Film Showcase, Washington West Film Festival, and Virginia Film Festival – and win several awards and nominations. They are known for their evocative music, natural aptitude at getting to the central tone of a film, and a keen ability to write for various genres and instrumentations – ranging from classical orchestra to electronic/drone and rock.

Kyle began his journey into music when they were ten years old and joined their school’s percussion ensemble. A few years later they taught themself the drum set, then a year later the piano. They first started composing when they was fourteen, when he wrote a piece for their percussion ensemble and was awarded the Director’s Award for music. They quickly developed a passion for the art of merging music to picture and within his first year of college already began scoring animation theses. Since then, they’ve branched out and began to work with filmmakers in all areas of sound editing, mixing, and designing along with scoring. In their efforts to dive into the world of scoring as deeply as possible, he’s studied with other film, commercial, and game composers Michael Worth and Charles “Chuck” Butler at The University of the Arts, where he received his minor in Music Technology, Business, and Entrepreneurship, and he's studied with prolific film and tv composers Karen Tanaka, Matthias Weber, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, and Miriam Cutler from the prestigious California Institute of the Arts where they earned their BFA in Music Composition with specializations in Film & Video and Avante-Garde music along with a minor in Music Theory.