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Composer Edwin Wendler is as comfortable creating memorable tunes as he is writing complex orchestral arrangements or synth/sample-based electronic music.
This is evident in Edwin's compositions for the 6th season of NBC's most successful reality series, Fear Factor (2005-2006). In 2007, Edwin scored the internet series, The Interior, including its popular main title song, The Gold You Seek, in collaboration with Houston singer/songwriter Mike Ator. From 2004 to 2007, Edwin worked for Grammy- and Emmy-nominated composer and recording artist Paul Haslinger (Underworld, Death Race), resulting in arrangements and orchestrations for the 2005 MGM/Sony feature Into The Blue (starring Jessica Alba and Paul Walker), the 2006 movie Turistas (starring Josh Duhamel and Melissa George), and the highly acclaimed 2006 Showtime series Sleeper Cell: American Terror (starring Michael Ealy and Oded Fehr).
In 2003, Edwin scored JoséAntonio W. Danner's ambitious comedy short film, Wrong Hollywood Number (Soundtrack available on iTunes). Collaborators on this project: London Metropolitan Orchestra(Gangs Of New York), recording engineer Mike Ross-Trevor(The Mummy), and Oscar-nominated scoring mixer Dennis S. Sands(Chicago, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, American Beauty).
In 2004, Edwin Wendler was accepted into the prestigious ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, which concluded with a recording session at 20th Century Fox's Newman Scoring Stage, with famed scoring mixer Armin Steiner and the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra.
Writer/Director Temistocles Lopez (Chain Of Desire) and producer Richard Weaver hired Edwin to score their feature film, Home: The Horror Story (2001), starring Richard Beymer(West Side Story), Grace Zabriskie(Twin Peaks, Big Love), Tracy Nelson(Melrose Place), and Ed Wasser(Babylon 5).
Edwin Wendler has scored more than 40 short films, some of which have been featured at the Hollywood Film Festival, the California Independent Film Festival, the São Paulo Film Festival, the L.A. Shorts Fest, Atomfilms.com, Stream America, Ifilm.com, as well as The Dance Films Association, New York City, and other festivals. His music can be heard as part of a permanent multimedia presentation at the Technisches Museum in Vienna.
Concert music: For the 150th anniversary of the University of Ottawa, conductor Laurence Ewashko commissioned the large-scale choral/orchestral piece Consolatio, which was broadcast on Canadian television and has also been performed by the Stockport Youth Orchestra, under maestro Philip Mackenzie, in Manchester, England (2004). Other commissions include Sinfonietta for the Amadeus Orchestra, London, England, and the critically acclaimed string quartet, The Marriage, which has been performed in Ottawa and in Lyon, France.
In his early twenties, Edwin wrote, directed, and scored several award-winning short films for the Austrian independent production company Magellan-Film. He also composed music for the highly acclaimed, multi-award-winning ORF nature documentary series, Universum.
A former Vienna Choir Boy, Edwin earned certificates in film scoring and screenwriting from UCLA Extension.
Edwin resides in the Los Angeles area. He is a member of The Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL), The Recording Academy (NARAS), the American Federation of Musicians (AFM, Local 47), the Recording Musicians Association (RMALA), and the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC). Affiliation: BMI
