Dean VALENTINE – composer

Dean Valentine is an award winning composer, his signature sound and approach brings an extraordinary edge to his film, tv & game scores.

He is a self-taught composer who loves to record, combine [and sometimes mangle] live instruments with bespoke electronics and manipulated samples to create his unique sound.

So far in 2023, Dean continues to work on an amazing animation series for Cartoon Saloon (details coming soon) with an Oscar winning director.

In 2022 The Art of Love was released and in September won the BEST FEATURE FILM Golden Dragon AWARD at Ferrara Film Festival and the Audience Award of the German Fünf Seen Filmfestival.  Dean has continued delivering trailers for high end films, especially in the US, a commercially released album, as well as writing the music and a multitude of songs for an animation series for Cartoon Saloon.

In 2021 he delivered the score for award-winning Hopscotch, a 52-part animation series for Ink And Light Films.  Three solo albums for BMG/Immediate Music are due for public/industry release imminently.

2020 highlights included the feature Baby God [HBO/Loki Films], film festival favourite The Lucky Man [10000 HRS films], his epic game score RUNE II [ESDF/Epic Games] was re-released to coincide with the relaunch of the game. 

Notable projects include the award-winning Russian epic Viking (Direktsiya Kino), Tribeca Film Festival favourite Tiger Raid (Dixon Baxi Evans Films), the multi-award-winning  animation, Violet with Aidan Gillen, the hard-hitting feature doc,  Putin (SDG Pictures) and the acclaimed trilogy of feature documentaries about Holocause victims,  Til The Tenth Generation, Close To Evil  (winner of the IFTA award) and Condemned To Remember (RTE). Dean is especially proud of these three features as they directly led to the formal investigation of a former SS guard and are now a permanent part of the Holocaust archives. His latest album Ventricular Beats was also released on vinyl. Dean has also composed the scores for numerous 26 & 52 part live-action & animation series for clients such as Disney, Brown Bag Films, Marvel, Ink And Light Films and RTE.

2021/20 was the year of collaborations for Dean, as he teamed up with award-winning artists & composers for film and tv projects plus two new album projects featuring live strings and electronics. Dean has also ventured into the world of composing and producing bespoke sample libraries alongside the incredible artists Swann aimed at music producers/composers and filmmakers. Two bespoke sample libraries are being released by Infinite Samples.