Named one of the Society of Composers and Publishers’ “Film Composers to Watch,” Gavin Brivik has won numerous awards, including the World Soundtrack Award for “Best Composition by a Young International Composer,” the ASCAP Jimmy Van Heusen Film Composer Award, the Alan Menken Composer Award, and the distinguished Elmer Bernstein Film Scoring Award.
Brivik recently scored the Warner Bros/Max show The Pitt, produced by John Wells, Noah Wyle, R. Scott Gemmill and Michael Hissrich, NEON's How to Blow Up a Pipeline, starring Lukas Gage and Kristine Froseth, which premiered at the 2022 Toronto Film Festival; He also wrote the music and produced pop songs for the upcoming Legendary Entertainment film Faces of Death, starring Barbie Ferreira, Charli XCX and Dacre Montgomery. Other notable credits include Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr.’s Wild Indian, starring Michael Greyeyes, Jesse Eisenberg and Kate Bosworth, which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and earned Brivik a World Soundtrack Award nomination, the documentary series The Secrets of Playboy; and the Paramount/Blumhouse film The Visitor, directed by Justin Lange.
Brivik also wrote the music for the 90th Academy Award-nominated short, My Nephew Emmett; Netflix’s Emmy-nominated original series Living Undocumented, produced by Selena Gomez; Netflix/Blumhouse Productions’ Cam, starring Madeline Brewer, which premiered at Fantasia Film Festival in 2018; Justin P. Lange’s horror film The Seventh Day, starring Guy Pierce and Keith David; as well as numerous narrative and documentary short films.
Brivik studied contemporary classical and electronic music composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he combined his roots as an indie rock and folk guitarist with orchestral and electronic instruments. Brivik went on to receive his Masters in Music Composition for Film and Multimedia at New York University.
Gavin released his debut solo album, “Realms and Forms,” in December 2021 with bitbird Records and MusicBed.