A classically trained musician and composer as well as a
skilled film producer and Director / Editor, Basil Moore is often compared to J.J Abrams, Robert Rodriguez and John Ottman.
Moore began his musical education at age 12, when he learned to play the drums. After mastering the drums, Moore next took on the piano, and by the time he was 17 years old he was a bonafide composer and programmer. Moore¹s uncanny musical aptitude and dedication to his lessons earned Moore two
scholarships for musical education, which he used to study both classical
percussion and orchestral conducting. From there, Moore entered the music
conservatory, Conservatorio Di Bologna in Italy, and later the Conservatory
of Southern California. However, it was not until Moore attended the Grove
School of Music that he was introduced to jazz fusion. This chance
introduction has been largely credited with helping to develop the unique
sound that Moore is now famous for: a sound that has been called ³the sound
of an epic with an edge.²
Following his time at the Grove School, Moore worked as a studio musician
and toured with several popular rock bands playing drums and keyboards. This
once in a lifetime opportunity opened many more doors, namely those to
Moore¹s career in movie and commercial scoring. Never one to do things on a
small scale, Moore was asked to compose commercial music for such major
accounts as British Airways and Peroni Nastro Azzurro Beer. Meanwhile, many
of his works were being published by Universal Music Group in the UK, and
Moore was beginning to work composing, editing and producing for major
networks such as the BBC. Moore also began producing musicians throughout
Europe, and scoring film projects with noted directors. As a result of
these film projects, Moore began to learn more about filmmaking, and soon
took to it with the same enthusiasm and dedication he¹d approached music
with.
Moore soon began working on a multitude of different motion picture
projects, scoring and producing everything from the smallest of commercials
to the largest of feature films. Most recently and notably, Moore composed
for Jalal Merhi¹s film Young Alexander the Great.
