About
Arend Bruijn is a Dutch composer specialized in film music. His scores blend orchestral tradition with modern textures, balancing emotional precision with thematic clarity. Whether it's horror, drama or genre-bending fantasy, Arend creates music that is deeply character-driven and always in service of the story.
Over the past years, Arend has worked on a wide range of projects, including international productions. He composed over an hour of original score for the Dutch horror-thriller Pariah, contributed to the European costume drama Fanny — shot on location at the Sisi Palace in Hungary — and scored the award-winning horror short Gnomes, which was selected for Cannes’ Marché du Film and won the Méliès d’Argent for Best European Short.
In 2025, Arend was nominated for a Buma Music in Media Award — the Netherlands’ leading recognition for excellence in film and media scoring — for his work on the psychological drama Her Body.
He also writes high-end trailer music for publishers like BMG LA and X-Ray Dog, producing hybrid tracks that combine live orchestra with synths and other electronic textures.
Arend works from his own studio and handles every stage of the scoring process — from first ideas to final mixes. He has collaborated with orchestras like the Budapest Scoring Orchestra and FAMES Project, and understands the demands of modern film production — both creatively and logistically.
In addition to his work as a composer, Arend teaches at the film scoring master’s program at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words
