Music composer's biography: Edd Charmant

Edd Charmant was born in Ghana, West Africa from a Ghanaian mother and a part Irish/Hungarian father. He grew up in Ghana and had the opportunity to travel to many countries around the world from a very early age.

He has always been interested in music and film but did not pursue a film music career until after completing degrees in economics and archaeology at University College Galway, Ireland. He worked in business in Africa after university but left after a year to return to Ireland where he completed a diploma in computer animation graphics and multimedia applications at Ballyfermot Art College, Dublin.

It was during his time in Art College that he decided to seriously pursue a film music composition career. He started scoring original music to student animation projects and at the same time begun self-teaching himself film music composition, orchestration and arrangement.

He attended seminars, entered competitions and invested in any written material on the subject of composition he could get. He scored film student demo reels for experience. His first commercial engagements however were scoring multimedia projects where he gained valuable experience in scoring to all sorts of visuals, sound design and sound production.

During his secondary and third level educational years, Edd played keyboards in several student jazz and pop/ rock bands mainly to improve his performance 'chops'. In those days, a career in film music was very far out of reach.

As a self-taught composer, Edd's development in film music composition has been greatly influenced by his multicultural background, life experiences and many countries he has travelled.

"I hear music in my head during my waking hours and often I have dreamt beautiful melodies in my sleep. I have always been inspired by the musical talents of all good composers and musicians especially Ennio Morricone and Rachmaninov. For me, music when well composed can express what words and visuals often fail to do…there is real magic in good music."

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