About Me
Clemens Damerau (born August 12, 1993, in Gehrden, Germany) is an award-winning composer, arranger, and music producer. He is also an accomplished pianist with numerous of achievements in the music industry.
Damerau’s musical journey began at the age of five taking piano lessons. Throughout his formative years, he continued his piano studies and eventually pursued “Composition” at the University of Music, Theatre, and Media Hanover (HMTMH) in Germany, where he studied under professors Rebecca Saunders, Oliver Schneller, and Raphael D. Thöne. He holds a John Barry Award for Film Composition and a master’s degree in Composition after studying “Composition for Screen” at the renowned Royal College of Music in London.
In addition to his studies, Damerau attended the Hollywood Music Workshop in 2015 and 2016, where he had the opportunity to study with numerous composers, orchestrators, and arrangers, including James Newton Howard, Alexandre Desplat, Conrad Pope, Nan Schwartz, Harry Gregson-Williams, George Fenton, and others such as Jacob Collier and Helmut Lachenmann.
Damerau has performed as a singer and keyboardist, playing a diverse range of music styles, including rock, pop, soul, classic and jazz. He served as the principal pianist for a salsa big band and was an enthusiastic member of an award-winning choir. His compositions and arrangements have been performed and recorded by numerous ensembles, including the RCM Symphony Orchestra, the WDR Rundfunkorchester, the Brandenburger Symphoniker, the Dortmunder Philharmoniker, Ensemble Mosaik and many more. Having previously worked at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and as a composer, studio pianist, and assistant at the recording studio D-Room, he is dedicated to training the next generation of musicians as a private composition instructor.
Damerau has collaborated on various films, adverts, games, and has composed music for concerts and theatre productions.
Photo taken by Joseph Ackerman©
Quotes
“The meat in this all-you-can-eat potboiler is Clemens Damerau’s astonishing score. He embraces the requisite tone with flamboyant excess and produces one of the most bombastic soundtracks of the year.”
“Crossover Horror arrives with a bang in an action-adventure mystery thriller with outrageous shocks when you least expect them and the best OTT score by Clemens Damerau heard in ages.”
“The title song “Seven Ways to Die” by MANDO DIAO delights us as does the very classically playful score by Clemens Damerau, full of reminiscences of the classics of the 1970s and 1980s. (translated)”
“His work was imaginative and engaging. He has written music that is lyrical and dramatically effective. He is a composer with enough technique to make his expressive intentions clear.”