Scott Hallgren

Scott Hallgren has an extensive list of film, TV, music video, and gaming work as a sound designer, boom operator, and composer, including: "Sith'd", Best Comedy at the 2006 Comic-con; the 2017 award winning APT documentary “Perfect 36: How Women Won The Vote”; and 2020’s “Frank”, which won Best Music at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. In 2023, he won Best Original Score at the Paris Film Awards for "The Resistance” and produced VOs and loop group for PBS’ Ringling, Akron & the ‘Blue Heaven’ Circuit. His score for 2025’s Emmy award winning short film, ‘Photography’ was also nominated for an Emmy for Best Music Composition/Arrangement.

He is the author/editor of PERFORM: Composing for the Screen by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

In a previous life, Scott was a touring, live event, and studio musician for artists such as: Donna Summer, Sir Elton John, Aaron Neville, Andrae Crouch, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Skaggs, The Wilkinsons, Eddy Arnold, David Foster, Larry Gatlin, Steve Wariner, Marc Antony, and Margaret Becker. For 8 years he was a Grammy voter and committee member in the Nashville chapter. His first album, “Live… in Studio C” has gained over 5 million plays on Spotify. His latest album, SCORES (2015-2025) is a compilation of his music across genres on Ear Up Records.

Mr. Hallgren is a member of the Central Great Lakes NATAS chapter, an affiliate member of the Motion Picture Sound Editors Guild, an AVID Certified Instructor for ProTools, and a Dolby Developer. He is a Design/Innovation Team Member, focusing on surround sound, storytelling, and virtual reality in the D/I Hub. He has served as a panelist or on the selection committees of the Seattle, Nashville, Cleveland, and Highland Square (Akron) film festivals, and was an Oscar qualifying short films juror for the 46th Cleveland International Film Festival. 

His classes include Sound for Picture, Post Production Sound, Music in Film/TV/Games, Sound Design, Scoring for Picture, and Production II (capstone).                        

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