Navid Hejazi
- Music Department
- Composer
- Sound Department
Navid Hejazi is an award winning film composer and violinist born in Madrid, Spain. He has scored movies, TV shows, documentaries, commercials and video games from the US, Europe, Japan, China, India, Singapore, the Middle East and South America. His score for "Juan in a Million" ("The Silent Earth") got him a winning award for best music at international film festival Festival de Cine Villa del Mar 2013. He has worked on productions from movie studios Warner Bros., 20th Century Studio, Lionsgate, Bad Robot Productions and Universal Content Productions among others. He is also part of the Dreamworks Animation Television composers team ("Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny", "The Penguins of Madagascar"), and Soundpaint and has provided music to Paint The Noise ("The Last Of Us", "Yellowstone") and Asylum Entertainment ("The Kennedys"). His solo violins can be heard in video games such as PS4 "Detroit: Become Human" and Xbox 360 "Resident Evil 2: Revelations". Some of these titles have been shown in theaters all around the world, streamed on TV networks and online platforms such as Fox, Syfy, HBO, NBC, Paramount Network, Netflix, Hulu, Disney +, Arte TV and have been selected at international film festivals Cannes Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival among others or made the Oscars shortlist.
Fourth generation musician, Navid started playing the violin at the age of 5 and grew up admiring the music of Paganini, Tchaikovsky and Beethoven. During his childhood he fell in love with movies and at the age of 15 started composing music and taking lessons on harmony, counterpoint and composition skills. In Spain he attended film music master classes with composers Dario Marianelli ("V for Vendetta"), José Nieto (BBC's "Crusaders") and Eric Serra ("The Fifth Element"). After graduating from Madrid Royal Conservatory with a degree in Violin Performance he got a scholarship to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he double majored in Film Scoring and Composition, graduating cum laude. At Berklee, Navid participated in master classes with well-known Hollywood film composers Alan Silvestri ("Back to the Future"), John Powell ("Shrek"), David Newman ("Ice Age") and Klaus Badelt ("The Time Machine") among others. He also specialized in traditional and modern violin styles learning celtic, bluegrass and jazz, taking master classes with fiddler Mark O'Connor and performing at Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. After this he moved to Los Angeles and interned at Remote Control Productions, film music studio run by Hans Zimmer ("Gladiator"), where he worked for composer Henry Jackman ("X-Men: First Class"). He also attended master classes with well-known Hollywood composers John Williams ("Star Wars: A New Hope"), Thomas Newman ("American Beauty") and Johann Johannsson ("Arrival"). Navid has performed at Hollywood's legendary Eastwood Scoring Stage, Capitol Studios, EastWest Studios, The Village Studios, Sunset Sound and mixed at The Mix Room, 424 Post and Remote Control Productions in Santa Monica.
Navid Hejazi has worked on video games including top selling titles by developers Capcom, Quantic Dream and Lucasfilm Games with releases on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch. Some of his work has been featuring solo strings on video games "Resident Evil: Revelations 2" (performing the Resident Evil theme on the main menu), "Detroit: Become Human" and the "Star Wars Eclipse" trailer, writing original music for video games "Dragon Caffi", "Fire Escape: An Interactive VR Series" (by "Grand Theft Auto" creator Navid Khonsari), "Skyweaver", "Hitori No Shita: The Outcast", recording strings on "Fortnite" and orchestrating the music for "Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2". Navid is also co-founder of Game Music Town, an American audio production company that creates original music, sound effects and voice over for video games and apps. Navid has also provided original music to Unisonar ("Assassin's Creed", "Call Of Duty: Mobile") and created original music and sound design for Medtronic's app "MiniMed" and podcast "8th Layer Insights".
