Function: Composer WSAcademy: WSA Voting Member
An award-winning Dutch composer of music for over 40 films, commercials, and television shows, Joep, started playing the piano from the tender age of 5. Growing up in a creative family in the Netherlands, he gained a rich variety of musical influence, empowering him to become the multi-faceted composer he is today. His ability to translate a client’s brief with ease and quick confidence, coupled with his capacity to tell powerful emotional stories without words through high-quality music, has earned him recent successes including trailer placements which appear in Incredibles 2 (Disney-Pixar), The Nutcracker and the 4 Realms and Dumbo (Disney), additional music compositions for feature films, Gringa and Just Noise (2020), and he received global acclaim for his score for Dutch film “Kruimeltje” in 2020 for which he was nominated for a World Soundtrack Award.