Bio

‘Bringing Stories to Life Trough Music’

Vidjay Beerepoot has a gift for seeing the world through someone else’s eyes, and that power—to relate and empathize—makes film and TV scoring the perfect fit. His music has traveled on animated adventures in the Amazon (Ainbo), investigated Dutch politics (Brussels), accompanied Anthony Hopkins as a widower in mourning (Now is Everything), and explored The Power of the Heart with Maya Angelou and Deepak Chopra in the 2014 documentary. His most recent film is the drama El Houb, about a gay Moroccan-Dutch man coming out to his family, and he currently scores the Disney animated series Minnie’s Bow Toons.

Beerepoot has also scored more than 100 videogames—including Harry Potter and The Secret Life of Pets titles—shorts, commercials, and musical theater. He has contributed additional music for Pinar Toprak (The Angel) and worked with such Hollywood heavy hitters as Tom Holkenborg and John Powell.

Becoming another person, or rather finding and expressing his humanity in another cultural context, was something he knew all about as a child born in India and adopted by Dutch parents. Growing up in the town of Hoorn north of Amsterdam, he loved listening to jazz and classical music as well as scores in the subtitled American films he watched in the ’80s and ’90s (which also taught him English)—but it wasn’t until he got involved in his local musical theater group as an actor that he started exploring composition.

After studying music in The Netherlands and the U.K., he was hired to run the audio department at a Dutch animation studio, where he created scores and sound design for a huge variety of film projects. He had an appetite for everything musical—composing songs and score for multiple stage productions, recording pop and rock albums, and arranging for big band. With that deep portfolio, he decided to take his film composing to the next level by attending the screen scoring program at USC, and since then he’s built a rich, diverse body of work in Hollywood.

The Indian-born composer nevertheless says he has always felt “completely Dutch,” and in coming to the U.S. he saw yet another culture through an outsider’s eyes. “I think I’m really good at understanding how it is to be in a different situation, and to feel not the same as most people. I think especially in movies and stories, that’s what most of the protagonists are going through, and I really connect with that feeling. I like to go into that journey and express that.”

His interest in music started at the age of eight. Vidjay started to play piano in several pop and jazz bands and orchestras. He entered the world of music composition when he composed his first piece for a theater stage production. After this experience Vidjay never stopped composing music.

He joined the Utrecht School of the Arts in Hilversum, The Netherlands where he received a Bachelor of Music with Honors and a European Media Master of Arts in Composition in Context from the Open University in Portsmouth, United Kingdom in 2005.

During these studies, his love for movie music was born.

Vidjay worked part time as the music and sound supervisor at post production studio Moving Magic in Amsterdam where he composed and produced music and sound design for clients like EMI, SONY, AKZO NOBEL & ID&T.

In 2004 he started his own audio post production company SoundVibe Music where he composed and produced music for various feature films, corporate productions, television shows, theater productions and music albums. His clients include Nickelodeon, MTV, Microsoft, Endemol International, Studio 100, Bavaria, SBS Broadcasting, AVRO Television, EO Television and many others.

Vidjay wrote music for numerous award winning films and TV shows including the Golden Calf winning film The Pool, the Golden Calf winning film Broken Moon, the RTL4 hit TV show Life & Cooking, the Nickelodeon hit TV show Naranjina and Samson & Gert for Studio 100.

In 2010 Vidjay moved to the film capital of the world: Hollywood, Los Angeles to study at the 'Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television' program at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. He graduated in 2011 with several honors and awards including the prestigious Outstanding
 Graduate
Certificate of 2011.

In 2012 Vidjay was lucky to work with this amazing multiple grammy winning Metropole Orchestra, writing arrangements for jazz icon Kurt Elling, Humphrey Campbell, Alessio Franchini and Gary Lucas. One of the highlights was to work on the Jeff Buckley Tribute Concert in the famous Music Venue Paradiso, Amsterdam.

Now located in L.A., he has worked with John Powell (Rio, How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek, The Bourne Series, and Kung Fu Panda) and Tom Holkenborg AKA JunkieXL on the biggest studio films at Remote Control Productions owned by academy award winner composer Hans Zimmer.

In 2012 Vidjay took part of the prestigious ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop with Primetime Emmy winner host Richard Bellis where he composed, orchestrated and conducted a composition for full orchestra recorded at the famous Alfred Newman Stage at the 21th Century FOX Studios. Vidjay was very honored to receive ‘The ASCAP Foundation Steve Kaplan TV & Film Studies Scholarship award’.

His love for the suspense, spy, action, comedy and drama genre will be heard through his music. It always serves the picture and Vidjay’s music brings stories to life.

Vidjay gives talks and workshops all over the world to inspire people to follow their dreams.

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