Kyle Acheson is a media composer and music director in New York. He writes for film, commercials and musicals. Winner of the Bernard Hermann Award for Excellence in Media Scoring from Brooklyn College.
Dexter Original Sin
I’m working as assistant composer to Pat Irwin (Dexter: New Blood, Rocko’s Modern Life, SUSS, Spongebob) on Showtime’s flagship series Dexter: Original Sin.
I am getting to write some of the score and collaborate with a superstar music team. I even created a theme for one of the characters that recurs throughout the season.
It’s a pleasure and a challenge to work on a series with a rich reservoir of score music by the great Dan Licht. (And the theme by Rolfe Kent!)
Premieres December 13th!
LIFE & BETH SEASON 2
Assisted composer Timo Elliston and orchestrator JoAnne Harris on the score for Life & Beth (Season 2), out now on Hulu.
I got to conduct “Dinner Music” for a string quintet at Sear Sound in Manhattan.
Check out the final result:
IN OTHER WORDS
In Other Words is a movie musical short anthology produced by The Barn. The first chapter, titled You Don’t Say was directed by Jeffrey Simon, with music and lyrics by Sam Balzac and AJ Freeman. I orchestrated and MD’d this charming piece, which will play at festivals this year!
Music:
Some Kind Words
sent my way:
@kyle_acheson been listening to "Family Piano" 3 or 4 times over the past couple days. It's such a lovely, welcome, hopeful, instantly familiar set of songs and so I find it easy to return to while driving, doing chores, or while my highschool students do their work.
— Caleb van der Leek (@calebsfuneral) March 31, 2021
1/4
“Not to be overlooked are whiz-kid composer Kyle Acheson’s musical contributions. Though he doesn’t perform his works live as he did in Fertile Ground’s “The Waterman”, his recorded pieces are credible enough to blend into a mixtape alongside David Byrne and The Pixies. ”
“Both my inner child and outer adult were delighted by the catchy melodies and intricate harmonies in this whimsical piece of original theatre. ”
“Kyle Acheson contributes original music that sets apt tones of grandeur and sadness.”