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Edgar Arens
12+ albums
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Edgar Arens is a Russian composer living in Moscow. He was born in 1976 to a family of performers. His father was an actor in the theatre and his mother was an accomplished singer, with a wide repertory of varying styles, including Opera, Classical, Russian Romantic and Ukrainian Folk Music. Owing to his family’s involvement in the fine arts, he had the privilege of meeting well-known Russian composers, Oscar Feltsman and Mark Fradkin, who played their music on the piano while his mother sang their new songs at home. Surrounded by a rich musical environment at such a young age, he became like a sponge, absorbing many different styles of songs and instrumental compositions. He began playing the piano when he was four years old and started to compose only two years later. Although he never studied formally, he is a highly accomplished composer and musician. At one point, Edgar became struck by great Hollywood soundtracks and started to work in this direction as well. His favorite composers were Ronald Stein, Bernard Herrmann, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Newton Howard, Danny Elfman, Dario Marianelli, Hans Zimmer, Thomas Newman, Howard Shore, James Horner, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, Trevor Rabin and others, virtually every composer in the film industry. Their music challenged him, distracted him and forced him in a certain definite musical direction. In order to practice creating original musical scores, Edgar began by taking major films and composing short pi
