Rick DeJonge

Board of Directors for The Sessions; Composer & arranger

  • Graduate of the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program from USC
  • Master’s of Art and Bachelor’s of Music from Western Michigan University
  • Film composer work includes: several films and with great composers such as Christopher Young, David Spear, Jack Smalley, and Pete Anthony.
  • Orchestrator work includes: composers on television promos including shows like “Beautiful People”, “Lost”, “The West Wing” and “CSI Miami”.
  • Conductor work includes;  his own scores at Paramount Studios, Fox Studios and Firehouse Studios in Pasadena, California.  Rick’s score for the action film “Fighting With Anger” contained a song by the composer which won Best Original Song at the New York Independent Film Festival and was recorded by Willie Nelson.
  • Recent original piano recordings for 4 silent films have received great reviews; “The work done here is exquisite, the new piano score by Rick DeJonge is both so much of the period of the films as well as an incredibly modern manner of presentation, carefully illustrating the moods and passions of an art created nearly a century ago.” – Los Angeles Times (March 30, 2012)
  • As a composer and conductor for film music, Rick was recently featured in an article of scoring for films in Life Magazine and just finished scoring 3 cues for a new cartoon ad for Fiat. Rick has been writing music for orchestra and wind ensemble for over 25 years. You can hear his symphonic works on Summit Records.
  • Rick has been the official arranger/composer for Walt Disney World’s Thanksgiving Day Parade since 2011.
  • For nearly two decades Rick has been working in artist relations covering over 20 different brands of musical instruments ranging from drums to guitar and from timpani to piccolo and everything in between.
  • He has worked with over 500 artists and bands including the Boston Brass, Youngblood Brass Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Big Bad VooDoo Daddy, Capital Cities, Reliant K, and the band FUN! Rick is a member of ASCAP along with his film music publishing company, Dream Notes Music.