George Shaw is a film composer and musician. He has composed original music that can be heard on many videos on

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as well as a number of short films. He has also worked as an orchestrator on such films as '' Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'', ''

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'' and '' Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles''.

Work

YouTube videos featuring Shaw's music have accumulated over 150 million views. He has provided the music for content from top YouTube personalities including

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(including the short films ''Buffet'' starring Harry Shum Jr., ''Strangers, Again'' with

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, and ''Too Fast'' starring Randall Park),

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(including Phan's Paris-set short film ''Rouge in Love'' directed by Phan and

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, and more. For instance, Shaw composed the score for the

and

short film collaboration, '' Agents of Secret Stuff'', which accumulated over three million views upon the first five days of its release. Shaw also composed the theme and music for Joey Graceffa's

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. Shaw has composed the score for films such as Ryan Kawamoto's ''Hang Loose'' starring

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(

) and

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, the horror feature film '' J-ok'el'' (winning an award at the Park City Music Festival for the score), sci-fi comedy film ''Flashback'', and the documentary, ''Uploaded: The Asian American Movement.'' He has also composed the score for short films such as Jeffrey Gee Chin's ''Lil Tokyo Reporter'', starring

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as Sei Fujii, Timothy Tau's ''

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'' starring

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(winning an award for "Best Original Score" from Asians on Film for the score),Asians On Film Festival Awards – Winter 2013, short films from

including '' Agents of Secret Stuff'', ''Buffet'' (with Harry Shum Jr.), ''Strangers, Again'' (with

) and ''Too Fast'' (with Randall Park),

's ''Rouge in Love'', Wesley Du's ''Dumpling'', John Raposas' ''*Truth'', an episode of Eric Won's webseries ''The Division'' and more.

Awards

Shaw won a "Best Original Score" award from Asians on Film for composing the score of Timothy Tau's short film, ''

''. Shaw has also won a "Best Original Score for an Indie Film" from the 2012 Hollywood Music in Media Awards for his score of

's popular short film set in Paris, ''Rouge in Love'', which has accumulated over 2 million hits on YouTube and was directed by both

(the director of the Sundance documentary ''

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'') and

. At the Park City Music Festival, Shaw won two "Gold Medals for Excellence": in 2007, for the feature horror film '' J-ok'el'' (Best Impact of Music in a Feature Film - Artistic Excellence), and in 2006, for a number of films, including NaRhee Ahn's ''Purity''.

Albums

Shaw has released several albums of his work, including: ''Spoiler Alert'', which was made possibly partly by

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Education

Shaw is a graduate of the

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, where he studied composition and film scoring.George Shaw, About, http://georgeshawmusic.com/Bio.html

References

External links

George Shaw's Official Website
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George Shaw on Bandcamp
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shaw, George Living people American film score composers American male film score composers Musicians from Los Angeles Video game composers American people of Taiwanese descent Year of birth missing (living people)