Forrest Gray(I)

Forrest Gray is a composer based in Los Angeles. He has composing credits ranging from documentary film and studio feature films, to his varied collaboration with singer-songwriter Mike Posner. His first experience as a film composer was in 2010, when he composed music for the Steven Soderbergh documentary, And Everything is Going Fine, which chronicled the life and career of Gray's father, Spalding Gray. Gray was a Sundance Composer Lab participant in 2015, and participated in the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive's inaugural year, taught by composer and conductor David Newman, as well as the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, and the BMI Conducting Workshop. His music has been described as "diverse" and "uniquely evocative", demonstrating a command of both traditional orchestral film music, as well as more modern, experimental approaches. When asked about Gray's contribution to And Everything is Going Fine, Soderbergh had this to say: "I didn't give him any indication of what it should be, how long it should be. I really just said do something, and I was pretty floored by what I got. It had exactly the right feeling, kind of elegiac and somehow uplifting at the same time. I was really surprised by how purely cinematic it was."