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Penka Kouneva

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Penka Kouneva is a Sundance Composer Fellow and a rising Hollywood film composer who blends her native Eastern European influences with modern orchestra, medieval chant, rock, and electronica. Recently, she composed additional score for the video games Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, working alongside the "Transformers" composer... See full bio »

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2013/I Elysium (lead orchestrator) (post-production)
 
2013 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (orchestrator - as Dr. Penka Kouneva)
 
2011-2012 Revenge (TV series) (lead orchestrator - 27 episodes)
– Forgiveness (2012) (lead orchestrator - uncredited)
– Intuition (2012) (lead orchestrator - uncredited)
– Confidence (2012) (lead orchestrator - uncredited)
– Resurrection (2012) (lead orchestrator)
– Destiny (2012) (lead orchestrator)
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2012 In Search of the American Dream (composed by)
 
2011 Kinect Disneyland Adventures (Video Game) (music orchestrator: Pyramind Studios)
 
2011 Gears of War 3 (Video Game) (lead orchestrator)
 
2011 Transformers: Dark of the Moon (music arranger)
 
2011 Your Highness (orchestrator)
 
2011 Dragon Age II (Video Game) (orchestrator)
 
2011 Rejouer (music supervisor)
 
2010 World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (Video Game) (orchestrator)
 
2010 StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (Video Game) (orchestrator)
 
2010 The Shot Felt 'Round the World (documentary) (orchestrator)
 
2009 The Hole (orchestrator)
 
2009/I 9 (lead orchestrator)
 
2009 Case 39 (orchestrator)
 
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Video Game) (composer: additional music)
 
2009 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (orchestrator)
 
2009 The Sims 3 (Video Game) (lead orchestrator)
 
2009 Angels & Demons (orchestrator)
 
2009 The Haunting (lead orchestrator)
 
2009 He's Just Not That Into You (orchestrator)
 
2009/I Thick as Thieves (lead orchestrator)
 
2009 Under New Management (lead orchestrator)
 
2008 Gears of War 2 (Video Game) (lead orchestrator)
 
2008 Vantage Point (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
2007 Bee Movie (orchestrator)
 
2007 When Nietzsche Wept (lead orchestrator)
 
2007 Transformers: The Game (Video Game) (orchestrator)
 
2007 Transformers (orchestrator)
 
2007 Hostel: Part II (lead orchestrator)
 
2007 Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (orchestrator)
 
2006 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (lead orchestrator)
 
2006 Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (orchestrator)
 
2005 Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (video) (lead orchestrator - as Penka Kouneva-Schweiger)
 
2005 Hostel (lead orchestrator)
 
2005 The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (additional orchestrator, score preparation)
 
2005 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (lead orchestrator)
 
2005 Sexual Life (music preparation)
 
2005 Chupacabra Terror (video) (orchestration)
 
2004 Curse of the Ring (TV movie) (orchestrator)
 
2003 The Matrix Revolutions (score preparation)
 
2003 Beat the Drum (lead orchestrator)
 
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico (orchestrator)
 
2003 The Matrix Reloaded (additional orchestrator - uncredited)
 
2003 The Lizzie McGuire Movie (orchestrator)
 
2001 An American Rhapsody (additional orchestrator, music preparation)
 
2001 Blonde (TV mini-series) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
2000 Yesterday's Children (TV movie) (orchestrator - uncredited)
 
2000 Harrison's Flowers (orchestrator)
 
2000 The Thin Blue Lie (TV movie) (lead orchestrator)
 
1999 Jesus (TV movie) (lead orchestrator)
 
1999 Switching Goals (TV movie) (orchestrator)
 
1999 Shake, Rattle and Roll: An American Love Story (TV movie) (orchestrator)
 
1999 A Song from the Heart (TV movie) (orchestrator)
 
1999 Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story (TV movie) (orchestrator)
 
1999 A Murder on Shadow Mountain (TV movie) (orchestrator)
 
1999 Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke (TV movie) (orchestrator)
 
1999 Angel on Abbey Street (music copyist)
 
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2013 Primrose Lane (post-production)
 
2013 Rough Hustle (post-production)
 
2013 In Confidence (short) (completed)
 
2012 In Search of the American Dream
 
2011 Rejouer
 
2011 The Connecticut Kid
 
2010 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Video Game) (co-composer)
 
2009 The Gold & the Beautiful
 
2008 Midnight Movie
 
2008 Richard III
 
2007 Ice Spiders (TV movie)
 
2007 Death and Taxis
 
2007 Nuclear Hurricane (TV movie)
 
2007 The Third Nail
 
2006 Wednesday (video)
 
2006 Magnum Stories (video documentary short)
 
2005 The Picture of Dorian Gray
 
2005 November (short)
 
2005 Chupacabra Terror (video)
 
2004 Y.M.I.
 
2003 Kitchen Bird Cocoon (short)
 
2003 Waiting for Ronald (short)
 
2003 American Storytellers (documentary)
 
2002 Notoriety (short)
 
2001 Earth Is Heaven (short)
 
2000 Shadows (short)
 
1998 Love Crimes and Other Felonies (short)
 
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2007-2008 Dogfights (TV series documentary) (additional score by - 2 episodes)
– Secret Weapons (2008) (additional score by)
– Kamikaze (2007) (additional score by)
 
2006-2008 Forensic Files (TV series documentary) (additional score by - 4 episodes)
– Freedom Fighter (2008) (additional score by)
– A Case of the Flue (2007) (additional score by)
– Blanket of Evidence (2007) (additional score by)
– A Leg Up on Crime (2006) (additional score by)
 
2006 Modern Marvels (TV series documentary) (additional score by - 4 episodes)
– Breakfast Tech (2006) (additional score by)
– Stealth & Beyond: Air Stealth - Part 1 (2006) (additional score by)
– Freight Trains (2006) (additional score by)
– More Earthmovers (2006) (additional score by)
 
2005-2006 Mail Call (TV series documentary) (additional score by - 4 episodes)
– Strategic Operations Tactical Training (2006) (additional score by)
– Tiger Stripe (2005) (additional score by)
– Iwo Jima Special (2005) (additional score by)
– The Pentagon (2005) (additional score by)
 

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Midnight Movie -- At a run down theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends get together for a midnight screening of an early 1970's horror film.
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Personal Details

Other Works:

(February 2002): Composed a musical, "Steel: John Henry and the Shaker" (Inside the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, California, USA).

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Alternate Names:

Dr. Penka Kouneva | Penka Kouneva-Schweiger | Penka Kouneva Schweiger
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Was described as "one to watch" by film music composer Howard Shore, in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter in August 2002. See more »

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