{"id":28972,"date":"2020-08-10T19:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T19:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/?p=28972"},"modified":"2022-01-10T21:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:41:13","slug":"lasse-elkjaer-introducing-la-based-danish-film-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/lasse-elkjaer-introducing-la-based-danish-film-composer\/","title":{"rendered":"Lasse Elkjaer – Introducing LA-Based Danish Film Composer"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had the pleasure to chat with Los Angeles-based Danish Film composer, orchestrator, and multi-instrumentalist Lasse Elkjaer. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Elkjaer is an award winning composer, who has worked with film composers such as Christopher Young, Spiderman 3 (2007), Jacob Groth, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2009), and he collaborated on his award winning score with Hollywood cellist Tina Guo, whose cello can be heard on scores by Hans Zimmer, such as The Lion King (2019). Elkjaer moved to Los Angeles 7 years ago to study Scoring for Motion Picture and Television at University of Southern California with a Fulbright Scholarship, and has been there ever since.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thank you so much for joining us Lasse! This is a real pleasure.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lasse, can you tell us what brought you to this specific career path?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Growing up as a kid in the middle of the VHS boom, I fell in love with movies. My absolute favorite
\nchildhood past time was watching movies that my family and I rented from the local video store. I
\nalso spent a lot of time cutting out pictures of Indiana Jones, ET, and such from magazines, and
\ncreating collages with my movie idols. We were pretty obsessed about Raiders Of The Lost Ark, and
\nthe score for that movie was one of the first scores that made a very strong impression on me.
\nI was drawn to the idea of working in the movie industry early on, but I put that on hold when I
\nstarted to do competitive gymnastics, and later on when I became serious about guitar playing and
\nI distanced myself from my sport, I was deep into guitar hero land. So it was first in my early twenties
\nthat I fully understood it was the music in movies that my heart was really beating for. I still
\nremember the turning moment, when I picked up a book with interviews with Hollywood composers
\nand realized that I could relate to their words more than anything else in the world of music. Before
\nthat, I primarily focused on my career as a guitarist, and freelanced as an orchestrator and arranger
\nfor musical theater, and whenever an opportunity arrived for me to help as a composer, I was more
\nthan happy to do so. Even though I\u2019d always been writing music, it honestly never occurred to me
\nthat I actually could have a career as a film composer. But after I read that book, I got very excited
\nand started my career path in film composition.<\/p>\n\n