Rebecca Wolf-Nail began her composing career at an early age when she began studying piano. Though often frustrated by her refusal to play the music 'as written,' her teachers encouraged her interest and occasionally allowed her to play her own pieces in recitals. She studied flute and clarinet in middle school, but continued inventing her own tunes when she got the chance.
At Portland State University, she earned her B.A. in music. She studied voice, harp and composition, but it wasn't until tendonitis forced her to abandon the harp as a career that she began to compose full-time.
She pursued post-graduate studies in composition, orchestration and music technology at Seattle Pacific University. Along the way she became interested in film scoring, and went on to attend Emmy-Award winning Hummie Mann's NW Film Scoring Institute.
After completing the film scoring institute's program, she went on to score many short films. She has completed two indie features. The latest was "Warrior's End" (dir. Bjorn Anderson). She also wrote a musical, "Take It Outside," which won Best Musical in Burien Live Theatre's 2005 Hunt Playwrights Festival and was produced in 2006. She has also written concert pieces for string orchestra, string quartet and piano.
Rebecca's musical tastes range from Prokofiev to alternative rock to Peter Schikele, the inventor of the infamous P.D.Q. Bach. A deep love of Celtic and Eastern European traditional music is evident in many of her works, including her concert piece for string orchestra, "Gypsy Dances." Her latest passion is Middle Eastern music and Flamenco.
She currently resides in the Seattle area.
Feature Credits:
"Warrior's End" by Warrior's End, LLC (dir. Bjorn Anderson) - medieval action
A medieval epic feature film.
Listen
to a sampler"Xeros" by Wonder Productions (dir. Nils Osmar)
- sci-fi/romance
[premiered at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival 2005]
Short Film Credits:
"The Delivery" (dir. Virginia Berta Bogert) - Seattle International Film Festival Fly Films 2006; Winner Best Short Film at the Port Townsend Film Festival 2008
"Guilt Quotient" Wonder Productions (dir. Nils Osmar) - sci-fi/comedy
"Sin" by Fast Track Productions (dir. Scott Norwood) - suspense/thriller
"A Day in America" by Corinthian Grey Entertainment (dir. Thomas
Scott Adams) - romantic drama
"Bird's Eye Waltz" by Wildcat Hollow (dir. Derik Sieg) - romantic
comedy
"Lesson One" by Bully Films (dir. Emmett Lynch) - comedy
"The Verdict" by Fast Track Productions (dir. Scott Norwood)
- drama
"I-24" by Ryan Middleton (dir. Ryan Middleton) - dark comedy
"Dog-Gone It" by Strike Twice Films - comedy
"Car Fight" by Troy Cook - action
Musical Theater:
"Take It Outside", a musical comedy of the Pacific Northwest. Winner of the Bill and Peggy Hunt Playwright Festival 2005 in the "Best Musical" category.
Concert Credits:
"Gypsy Dances," a piece for string orchestra, was commissioned as part of the Composer Residency Program of the Seattle Composer's Alliance in conjunction with Gilda's Club of Seattle.
