‘Bringing Stories to Life Trough Music’
Vidjay Beerepoot is an award-winning composer from the Netherlands. He has worked internationally as one of Europe's youngest established professional composers on some of the most popular TV shows and biggest films in Europe.
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’.
Vidjay gives talks and workshops all over the world and his goal is to inspire people to follow their dreams
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.
Awards & Nominations
The ASCAP Foundation Steve Kaplan TV & Film AwardASCAP Film Scoring Workshop 2012
Outstanding Graduate Certificate - 2011 Thornton School of Music Honors AwardUniversity of Southern California
Harry Warren Endowed Scholarship for Scoring for Motion Pictures & TelevisionUniversity of Southern California
International Academic Achievement Award - 4.0 GPAUniversity of Southern California
Prince Bernhard Culture Fund, Performing Art Fund, Hendrik Muller FundGrants for USC Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television
Student Emmy Winner 2nd place best drama for ‘Bosco’s Guitar’College Television Awards
Best Music Award for ‘Tunes of the West’48Hour contest Dutch Film Festival 2010
Golden Calf best short film for ‘Broken Moon’Dutch Film Festival 2010
People’s Choice award and Jury Award for ‘Oblivion’The International One-Minute Film Festival 2011
Golden film Award – ‘Santa Claus and the secret of the book’Dutch Film Festival 2008
Children’s Jury Award | Live action award for ‘Circus’Encounters Short Film Festival – UK 2009
Runner-up Talent& Pro Award Dutch Film Festival for ‘Cookie’Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy 2006-2007