# Pieter Schlosser

Pieter Schlosser (born August 17, 1980) is a Guatemalan-American film and television composer best known for Destiny 2, You, Me and the Apocalypse, The Lying Game, and Transformers: Dark of the Moon. He has also composed scores for multiple studio films and network television shows.

## Early life and influences

Schlosser was born in Guatemala City, Guatemala to a Dutch mother and Costa Rican father of German descent, who introduced him to jazz and classical music at a young age. He cites opera, musicals and Disney films as his earliest influences. During his childhood, his family lived and traveled between Guatemala, Austria, Panama, and Costa Rica, enabling him to expand his musical vocabulary. While living in Austria, he began singing in choirs and learned to play the piano. After moving to Panama, he began singing in a Swedish choir which sang in Spanish, English, French, German, and Swedish. He began learning saxophone and, after moving to Costa Rica, playing in symphonic bands, youth orchestra, and small jazz ensembles.
During high school, he bought the music software Cakewalk Pro Audio and began composing his own music. While graduating from the German high school in Costa Rica, Schlosser wrote a song inspired by Pat Metheny Group. The Latin Grammy Award-winning world music group Editus, who was recording an album with songs by Costa Rican composers, included Schlosser's work in their album Calle Del Viento.
He attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a partial scholarship, where he completed a double major in Film Scoring and Music Production and Engineering. He then relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film composition.

## Career

Schlosser began his career in Hans Zimmer's studio Remote Control Productions, through the connections he made while working at The Record Plant in Hollywood, in which he met Alan Myerson. He worked for five years alongside Steve Jablonsky on multiple films and television series, including The Amityville Horror, The Island, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Desperate Housewives, Friday the 13th, and the Transformers film series. While working for Steve Jablonsky, Schlosser contributed additional music and conducted a small orchestra while recording the score for all nine seasons of Desperate Housewives.
In 2014, Schlosser was one of over a hundred people who were given the ASCAP Award for Top Television Series for his work on Freeform's The Lying Game.
In 2015, he composed the score for NBC's You, Me and the Apocalypse. During that same year, he also worked with the Costa Rica National Symphony Orchestra and arranged a full orchestral performance of his original music in collaboration with Editus. In 2017, he scored the film What About Love starring Sharon Stone and Andy Garcia. In 2018, the IMAX film In Saturn's Rings for which he composed the opening music is set to be released.
Schlosser has also composed scores for video games, including Destiny 2, Gears of War 2, and Gears of War 3, The Sims 3, and Transformers: The Game.

## Filmography / Discography
### Films

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2004 | Team America: World Police | Assistant (Daumen Kaiser) | |
| 2004 | Steamboy | Assistant to Composer, Music Editor (temp score) | |
| 2005 | Day Shift | Re-recording Mixer | Short Film |
| 2005 | The Amityville Horror | Technical Score Advisor, Assistant (Steve Jablonsky) | |
| 2005 | The Island | Assistant (Steve Jablonsky) | |
| 2006 | The Quick and the Undead | Composer | |
| 2006 | The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning | Assistant (Steve Jablonsky) | |
| 2006 | Desperate Housewives Special: All the Juicy Details | Composer (additional music) | TV movie |
| 2007 | I Hate Musicals | Additional Music Programmer, Composer (additional music) | Short Film |
| 2007 | The Hitcher | Additional Music Programmer, Composer (additional music) | |
| 2007 | The Fiesta Grand | Musician (saxophone) | |
| 2007 | Transformers | Technical Score Engineer | |
| 2007 | Dark Mirror | Composer | |
| 2007 | Dragon Wars: D-War | Assistant to Composer | |
| 2008 | Space Chimps | Composer (additional music) | |
| 2008 | Forever Strong | Composer (additional music) | |
| 2009 | Arrhythmia | Composer | Short Film |
| 2009 | Appointment in Vancouver | Composer | |
| 2009 | Friday the 13th | Composer (additional music) | |
| 2009 | Coyote County Loser | Composer | |
| 2009 | The People Speak | Composer (additional music), Musician (sax, Indian flute, keyboard) | |
| 2011 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | Music Programmer | |
| 2013 | Zombie Hunter | Composer (additional music) | |
| 2014 | The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale | Composer (additional music) | |
| 2014 | Mr Maple Leaf | Composer (original music by) | Short Film |
| 2015 | Pass the Salt | Composer | Short Film |
| 2015 | Invisible Sister | Composer (additional music) | TV movie |
| 2016 | The Girl in the Pink Motel | Composer | Short Film |
| 2017 | Perception | Composer | Short Film |
| 2017 | Type A | Composer | TV movie |
| 2018 | In Saturn's Rings | Composer (opening music) | |
| 2024 | What About Love | Composer (original music by) | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003 | SD Gundam Force | Score Recordist | |
| 2005 | Threshold | Composer | |
| 2006 | Amas de casa desesperadas | Composer (additional music) | TV mini-series 19 episodes |
| 2005-07 | The Contender | Assistant (Steve Jablonsky) | |
| 2002-11 | Spooks | Composer (additional music) | |
| 2010-11 | Life Unexpected | Composer (additional music) | 26 episodes |
| 2004-12 | Desperate Housewives | Composer (additional music) | 169 episodes |
| 2012 | The Client List | Co-Composer | 10 episodes |
| 2011-13 | The Lying Game | Composer, M.C., Composer (additional music) | 30 episodes Won: ASCAP Award for Top Television Series |
| 2013 | Showville | Composer | 8 episodes |
| 2014 | Resurrection | Composer (additional music) | 3 episodes |
| 2014 | Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. | Composer (additional music) | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | The Astronaut Wives Club | Composer (additional music) | 8 episodes |
| 2015 | You, Me and the Apocalypse | Composer | 9 episodes |
| 2016 | Superhuman | Composer (theme music) | TV special |
| 2021 | Secrets of Sulphur Springs | | |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role |
| 2007 | Transformers: The Game | Composer (additional music) |
| 2008 | Gears of War 2 | Composer (additional music) |
| 2009 | The Sims 3 | Composer (additional music) |
| 2011 | Gears of War 3 | Composer (additional music) |
| 2017 | Destiny 2 | Composer |

## Awards and nominations
### ASCAP Awards

| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
| 2014 | Freeform's The Lying Game | ASCAP Award for Top Television Series | Won |