Gerrit Wunder

Biography.

An award-winning composer based in Los Angeles, California, Gerrit Wunder has scored over 40 films (features, documentaries and TV), commercials, trailers, studio logos and virtual reality projects. He has written the music for VR games like “Jurassic World VR Expedition” (Universal), co-composed the music for the Netflix Series “Tomb Raider - The Legend of Lara Croft”, contributed music for hit shows like DC’s Stargirl (Warner Bros) and blockbusters like Netflix’s Slumberland or Dreamworks Classics’ “Postman Pat – The Movie”. Wunder composed the music for independent movies like the western Dead Men (Sony Entertainment), TV movies and nature documentaries for Lifetime, Red Bull Media and the BBC. Other credits include commercials for brands like Hewlett Packard, Samsung, Ducati or Husqvarna, trailers and TV promos.

Winner of the BMI Pete Carpenter Award, the Utah Film Awards and the Global Music Awards, Wunder has, among others, recorded at Abbey Road Studios and Fox Studios with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra as well as the Hollywood Studio Symphony. Holding a masters degree in composition and piano from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (Austria), he is an avid collector and player of unusual bowed string instruments, like the octave violin or the uku-viol and rare electric violas. He’s also a modular synth enthusiast.