Scott Hallgren
Biography
Scott Hallgren has an extensive list of film, TV, music video, and gaming work as a sound designer, boom operator, and composer, including: "Sith'd", Best Comedy at the 2006 Comic-con; the 2017 award winning APT documentary 鈥淧erfect 36: How Women Won The Vote鈥�; and 2020鈥檚 鈥淔rank鈥�, which won Best Music at the Independent Horror Movie Awards. In 2023, he won Best Original Score at the Paris Film Awards for "The Resistance鈥� and produced VOs and loop group for PBS鈥� Ringling, Akron & the 鈥楤lue Heaven鈥� Circuit. His score for 2025鈥檚 Emmy award winning short film, 鈥楶hotography鈥� was also nominated for an Emmy for Best Music Composition/Arrangement.
He is the author/editor of .
In a previous life, Scott was a touring, live event, and studio musician for artists such as: Donna Summer, Sir Elton John, Aaron Neville, Andrae Crouch, Gloria Estefan, Ricky Skaggs, The Wilkinsons, Eddy Arnold, David Foster, Larry Gatlin, Steve Wariner, Marc Antony, and Margaret Becker. For 8 years he was a Grammy voter and committee member in the Nashville chapter. His first album, has gained over 5 million plays on Spotify. His latest album, SCORES (2015-2025) is a compilation of his music across genres on Ear Up Records.
Mr. Hallgren is a member of the chapter, an affiliate member of the , an AVID Certified Instructor for ProTools, and a Dolby Developer. He is a Design/Innovation Team Member, focusing on surround sound, storytelling, and virtual reality in the D/I Hub. He has served as a panelist or on the selection committees of the Seattle, Nashville, Cleveland, and Highland Square (Akron) film festivals, and was an Oscar qualifying short films juror for the 46th .
His classes include Sound for Picture, Post Production Sound, Music in Film/TV/Games, Sound Design, Scoring for Picture, and Production II (capstone).
Education
MMus, Composing for Picture, Seattle Film Institute
Affiliations
- University Film and Video Association
- Motion Pictures Sound Editors Guild (MPSE)
- Central Great Lakes NATAS (Emmys)
Awards/Achievements
- Emmy nomination, Original Music Composition/Arrangement, 鈥楶hotography鈥� (2026)
- Best Original Score, 鈥橳he Resistance鈥�, Paris Film Awards (2023)
- Best Music, 鈥楩rank' (2020)
- Bronze Telly Winner, 'Perfect 36: How Women Won The Vote' (2017)