2023 JUROR
Esin Aydingoz
Composer // Film + TV
Esin Aydingoz is a media composer, born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey and currently residing in the USA. She worked on a vast variety of projects including animations, TV series, movies, video games, albums, concerts and musicals, and has recently worked on Tim Burton's Golden Globe nominated hit Netflix series, Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega.
Aydingoz was a part of the music team and arranged some of the hit cover songs in series such as The Rolling Stones' Paint It Black, which reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Charts and has been streamed on Spotify alone nearly 14 million times in a very short time.
She was recently nominated for the prestigious “David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent” at the 4th Annual Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards for Gravitas Ventures' Simchas and Sorrows, and her new documentary, Black Barbie, had its world premiere at South by Southwest in March this year.
Aydingoz is currently working as the Assistant Chair of Berklee College of Music's Screen Scoring Department and the secretary for The Alliance for Women Film Composers, for which she has been a board member since 2019.
She arranged, produced, recorded and assistant music directed for various album and concert projects for Disney Music Group; starred with Olivia Rodrigo in multiple music videos for High School Musical: The Musical: The Series; arranged an orchestral medley for Disney+'s inaugural launch in Turkey, where she also got to perform with Istanbul Film Music Orchestra as a pianist; and wrote additional music on a lot of popular series such as Apple TV's SEE as well as Netflix's Princess Power and The Witcher: Blood Origin, starring Michelle Yeoh.
Aydingoz is also creating some buzz in the concert world. Her orchestral and choral piece "A Shattered Fantasy" had its world premiere in October 2022 at Auditorium Stravinski in Montreux and was televised twice on La Télé on New Year's Eve.
