Tim van de Laar

16 Jul Tim van de Laar

Tim started in the music industry at a young age, and this has grown into his greatest passion. He now has 23 years of experience as a keyboardist, and has developed himself into a composer and instrumentalist for a variety of media and music applications.

Throughout the years, he’s evolved into a versatile keyboardist/composer with comprehensive knowledge of the business and creative aspects of the contemporary music industry. By putting this into practice, he has developed an extensive portfolio. Due to his insight, knowledge, creativity and endless motivation, he is extremely suitable to compose music for all sorts of formats and styles, including commercials, TV show leaders, video game and film soundtracks. Also, he composes music for a wide variety of artists.

Furthermore he is active as a band/theater keyboardist for 15 years.

Education:

• 2000-2004

  HKU High School of Arts Utrecht
  Bachelor; Muziek Technology, Music Production and Composition

• 1999-2000

  Pre-education: Music Technology, High School of Arts Utrecht.

• 1994-1998

  Jazz piano lessons by master pianist `Wilbert Kivits`

• 1986-1993

  Public Music School: Gemert ( S.E. Brabant, the Netherlands)

Projects:

• Mole Control

  Music composer for pc game “Mole Control” from Remode Ltd game studio, Plymouth Devon, the UK.

• Jazz/pop composition

  Writing a composition for Babette van Veen (Warner publishing).

• Pop Composer

  Composer/Arranger for Artist Nikos Frangiskatos.

• Leader production

  Arrangements for Olliver Schwarz and Gerrit Elbrink.

• Pop compositions

  Composer from artist Sjors van der Panne.

• Animation Ubi

  Sound design project for child animation pilot by Griet Van Hemel ‘Top Floor, Graphics and Motion’, Leuven (Belgium) (Top Floor.to)

• 4real r&b/hiphop productions

  Realtime” arrangements for 12 tracks for producer Traver Duncan (4real, Londen).

• Guilly Koster band

  Ten-day band performances at the Grand Hotel de Bayerischer Hof in Münich (Germany) with, among others, the following musicians: Persijn Joling (Candy Dulfer, The Pelgrims), Michel de Groot (Time Bandits, The Zoo).

• Animation, My Buddy The Fly

  Sound design work for an animation made by animators Wip Vernooij and Joost Lieuwma (www.wipvernooij.com, www.joostlieuwma.nl).

• Human Workshop

  Realtime arrangements for “Human Workshop” Dance Album. (www.humanworkshop.com)

• Leader, ELC Lightning B.V

  Short Company leader for this light and sound company (www.elclightning.com).

• Free Bird Focus

  Internship at travel documentary studio “Free Bird Focus”, Gemert (S.E. Brabant, the Netherlands). Hired to produce stock music for a three month period of time.

Some music: