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Karen Martin
Composer
"Karen Martin's eerie music crafts a world that's just plain crazy" -- L. A. Weekly
Yucatan
1:20
Reading
1:40
Apart
0:42
Dungeon
0:49
Walkout
1:20
The Loss of Democracy
1:19
Reflection on Babs
1:28
Harry's Flowers
0:58
Car Ride
0:32
Opening
1:02
Theresa
2:27
Biography
A native of Los Angeles, composer Karen Martin studied classical piano and orchestration in London, subsequently performing her compositions throughout Europe.
She returned to Los Angeles to continue her studies at CalArts where she received an MFA in Music.
Karen composed and produced the multimedia production “Nowhere Did I Leave Footprints” at the Los Angeles Theater Center and has scored the music to several films including the film “A FATE FORETOLD”, which screened at many festivals here and in Europe and played on the Sci-Fi Channel, and "OUTSIDE” which screened on Showtime Networks and won the Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Film Award at ComicCon. Two of her film scores were finalists at the Moondance film competition. Her recent film "Charlie and the Hunt”, screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2022 Emerging Filmmaker Showcase.
Her scoring for theatre productions include “The Birthday Present 2050” directed by Jonathan Sanger (The Producers, Elephant Man, Vanilla Sky, Marshall) and the “The Red Dress”.
Recently, she was an Emmy judge for the 46th Annual News and Documentary Emmys.