Christopher de Groot

Annexia Ensemble rehearsing the score to Ménilmontant

welcome to my site

Here you can find information about me and my music.

I compose music for live ensembles, electronic music as well as music for film and other multimedia projects. I believe in using live musicians whenever possible for my film scores (there are so many talented musicians living in Perth!)

Feel free to browse my site and listen to some of my musical examples.

recent news

I have been nominated for a West Australian Screen Award (2010) for my score to the film Crow's Feet Directed by Megan Palinkis.

The awards ceromoney will be held on the 6th of March 2010.

My original score to Dimitri Kirsanoff's 1926 French silent film masterpiece Ménilmontant was screened with the film at the Osage gallery in Hong Kong in January.

The film, (with score performed by the Annexia Ensemble), was first screened at the Astor theatre in August 2009.

click here to read the Resonate review

(Go to audio samples page for excerpts of the score)

Ménilmontant is a medium-length silent film directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, which has been hailed as a striking, disturbing masterpiece.

The story follows the lives of two young sisters who experience their parents’ brutal death in the family home. Alone and on their own, the sisters move to Paris where they struggle to survive in the seedy neighbourhood of Ménilmontant.

Kirsanoff’s style is striking and experimental, his film making skills brilliantly serve the tragic and sad nature of this story. The mix of experimental techniques and melodramatic plot is brilliantly and disturbingly balanced.

My score to The Director's Cut has received a WASA for best original soundtrack at the recent 2009 West Australian Screen Awards.

Tropfest film festival 09 is upon us!!! To hear some of my score to Jim Lounsbury's trop film Early Checkout click here (more can be heard in my audio samples page).

To hear a sample of my recently finished score to The Director's Cut click here

A trailer for The Director's Cut (that contains none of my original music) can be found here