Thomas Wander was born in Austria, where he studied music from an early age. In 1992, he moved to Los Angeles to study with renowned film composers such as Jerry Goldsmith and David Raksin at the University of Southern California.

Among his film credits are White House Down, Anonymous, 2012, 10,000 BC, and The Day After Tomorrow, directed by Roland Emmerich, The Thirteenth Floor and Hostile Takeover to name only a few.

For television, he scored more than 40 episodes of the long-running hit series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He has also written music for a number of longford projects, including Storm Tide, Dresden, Sins of the Father and RFK.

Wander has won the BMI Film Music Award in 2008 for his score in 10,000 BC, in 2010 for his score in the film 2012 and in 2014 for the score to White House Down.

HARALD KLOSER

Harald Kloser is an Austrian film music composer, film producer and script writer. After his studies of music in Riverside, California, he wrote his first film score for Niki List‘s Sternberg-Shooting Star, followed by soundtracks for Robert Dornhelm‘s movie Requiem for Dominique, The Comedian Harmonists and Gabriel Barylli‘s Butterbrot.

Kloser now belongs to the leading composers of Hollywood. One of his most famous soundtracks was the music to Roland Emmerich‘s movie The Day after Tomorrow in 2004. Kloser and Emmerich cooperated, once again, for the film 10.000 B.C. in 2008. In November 2009 the successful duo released the big-budget science fiction movie 2012, where Kloser acted as producer, script writer and film composer.

Kloser won the BMI Film Music Award in 2005 for both of his scores of Alien vs. Predator and The Day After Tomorrow.