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David Majzlin: Biography

David Majzlin's musical career began at age two with a performance art piece composed by destroying the ivory keys of his parents' piano with a toy hammer. Shortly thereafter he formed Toy Hammer Music and began scoring to picture. David's film composing credits include Being Reel (Winner - Coca-Cola® Refreshing Filmmaker Competition), Still(e) (Winner - Best Score - Avignon Film Festival), Excuses, Excuses (Nominee - Student Academy Award®), Virgin Larry (Winner - Coen Brothers Audience Award - Brooklyn Film Festival), Herb and Dorothy (Winner - Audience Award - Silverdocs Film Festival) and over 30 independent films.

Television credits include trailers and promos for Ugly Betty, CSI, Grey's Anatomy, The Ghost Whisperer, Boston Legal, 20/20, and Desperate Housewives. He has also written for Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn (Comedy Central), Living With Change (Castleworks), and Looking Back, Moving Forward (PBS).

David's commercial compositions have earned him a Telly, Caddy, finalist placements for the First London International Advertising Awards and the International Monitor Awards. Theater credits include Manigma, starring Michael Aronov (Lbs, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), A Mouthful of Birds, directed by Rebecca Taylor, and The Winter's Tale, a rock musical produced for The Rude Mechanicals Theater Company. David has also worked as a producer and programmer with artists such as Lou Reed, Fernando Saunders, Katy vs Evil, Aviva, and performing arts group, Body Temple, as well as The Labyrinth Dance Theater (Sasha Spielvogel, choreographer).

While adept at a host of musical styles, his compositional style reflects the unique needs of each project.

He can be reached here.


FILM CREDITS
STILLE
Winner - Best Score - Avignon Film Festival

First Gaze Films, prod.
Susan Schwartzwald, dir.

HERB AND DOROTHY
Winner - Audience Award - Silverdocs Film Festival

Fine Line Media / MUSE Film and Television, prod.
Megumi Saski, dir.

ASYLUM SEEKERS
(upcoming)
Off Hollywood, Crowned Heart, Kinetic Arts, prod.
Rania Ajami, dir.

BEING REEL
Winner - Grand Prize - Project Greenlight / Coca-Cola®
Refreshing Filmmaker Competition

Steven Sole, prod.
Brett Levner, dir.

EXCUSES, EXCUSES
Nominee - Student Academy Award®
Lauren Timmons, prod.
Christopher Timmons, dir.

SCALLOP POND
Rhode Island International Film Festival
Gill Ferrer / CGF Films, prod.
Carlos Ferrer, dir.

EARL & PUPPY
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival
Rhode Island International Film Festival

Jeff Seymann / Sweetwater Films, prod.
Jeff Seymann, dir.

VIRGIN LARRY
Winner - Brooklyn International Film Festival:
Coen Brothers Award, Audience Award

Pescador Productions, prod.
Tim and Tom Leupp, dirs.

THE LITTLE RED T
Slamdance Festival, Magnolia Festival
NY Int'l Independent Film Festival

Hypnotic / Universal Films, dist.
Anita Weber, dir.

THE LUCKY ONE
Angelus Film Festival

Brett Levner, dir.

RUMPY
Slamdance Festival, Magnolia Festival
NY Independent Film Festival
Edmonton Int'l Film Festival

Corrosive Pictures, prod.
Lauren Timmons, dir.

LINCOLN 44
D.C. Independent Film Festival

Ryan Lakenan, dir.

SUEñOS
Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival
Selected Film - IFP Media Lab

Rio Puertollano, dir.

STRUNG
Composer Select
Raw Impressions, NYC, prod.
Marta Masferrer, dir.

PARANORMAL
Winner - Best Horror Short -
DragonCon International Film Festival
Corrosive Pictures, prod.
Lauren Timmons, dir.


TRAILERS AND PROMOS

AFI SALUTES
USA Network
CSI CBS
THE GHOST WHISPERER CBS
GREYS ANATOMY ABC
UGLY BETTY ABC
BOSTON LEGAL ABC
20/20 ABC
DEPERATE HOUSEWIVES ABC
MEDIUM NBC
SUPERNANNY ABC
THE TODAY SHOW NBC
LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN CBS
THE TONY AWARDS American Theater Wing