Esin Aydingoz

Esin Aydingoz is a media composer from Istanbul, Turkey. Esin graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music with a dual degree in Film Scoring and Contemporary Writing and Production - and a minor in Musical Theatre Writing. She has composed music for a wide array of projects including animations, silent films, documentaries, TV series, video games and musicals. She was recently nominated for the prestigious "David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent" for the 4th Annual Society of Composers & Lyricists Awards.
Her shorts The Monster of the Desert (2020) and Noor (2021) have brought her several "Best Score" awards. She has written additional music for Bear McCreary on Apple TV's SEE (2021) starring Jason Momoa and The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022) and for Anne-Kathrin Dern on Hallmark's One Summer (2021) & Presence of Love (2022). Other career highlights were Simchas and Sorrows (2022) starring Hari Nef, Amazon Prime Video’s The Prevalence (2020), Kino Lorber's Cinema's First Nasty Women series (2023), a branded documentary for US Bank (2021) and touring with the BSFO (2017), where she conducted her music live-to-picture. She is currently writing additional music for JP Rende on an upcoming animated Netflix series inspired by Princesses Wear Pants and scoring multiple feature films.

Scoring work aside, Esin is also a professional pianist and music director. She has arranged and produced for various Disney albums and concerts, as well as being the assistant music director for their a cappella sensation, “DCappella”. She recorded piano on Sony's The Broken Hearts Gallery and Disney's High School Musical: The Musical: The Series with Olivia Rodrigo and the rest of the cast. She recently worked as an arranger on Tim Burton's highly popular Netflix series: Wednesday.

As a lover of live entertainment, she had the pleasure of working with Black Ink Presents as a production assistant & score reader on various Live-to-Film Concert Experiences at The Hollywood Bowl and The Greek Theatre in LA, such as Disney's Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coco, as well as Paramount Pictures' Rocketman. In 2019, she got to perform at The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as part of the Hollywood Turkish Film Festival. Her chamber music and solo piano works have been performed in LA, Istanbul, Boston, Riga and Taichung and she had a world premiere of her new orchestral and choral piece "A Shattered Fantasy" at the Auditorium Stravinski in Montreux, Switzerland in October 2022.

A voting member for The Recording Academy, the secretary for The Alliance for Women Film Composers, and a committee member for The Society of Composers and Lyricists, Esin truly strives to make the world a better place through the arts. Ever since July 1st 2022, she has been the Assistant Chair of Berklee College of Music's Film Scoring Department.