Mahlon Berv

Music Composer

London, England

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April 2013

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About Mahlon

Mahlon Berv will begin a Master of Composition in Composition for Screen at the Royal College of Music, London Fall 2014. He recently graduated from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University in composition and philosophy.

Mahlon's music has been performed across the U.S. including
venues such as Yale University, Mannes College, Indiana University, Bard College, and Webster
Community Music School. He received First Place in the 2010 Webster Community Music School Young
Composers Competition, New York Art Ensemble Emerging Composer 2011, Finalist in the 2010 ASCAP
Morton Gould Young Composer Competition, and Indiana University Dean’s Award in Composition 2009.
Mahlon has experience composing orchestral and chamber concert music, music for the theatre,
and music for film. In 2012 Mahlon conducted the premiere of his musical comedy, Aureus, at the IU
Theatre and Drama School to an audience of 60 people. He worked as a songwriter at the Palace Theatre of
Brown County in Nashville Indiana. In 2012 Mahlon paired up with screenwriter Miyako Fuqua to write
the film score for the animated short Broken Bulbs. He also composed a trio for viola, oboe and harp, and a
piece for solo violin to accompany an artwork by Roland Ricketts with the New Art New Music Project at
IU. In 2010, Mahlon’s orchestral composition, Circus Fanfare, was premiered by the Jonathan Edwards
College Philharmonic at Yale University.
He has studied with Don Freund, Claude Baker, Aaron Travers, and PQ Phan, and worked with Eleanor
Cory and Keith Fitch at Mannes Preparatory Division. Mahlon studied piano with Luba Dubinsky and
Oxana Yablonskaya of the Juilliard School.

Mahlon has an active youtube account and last.fm page, with a combined view-count of over
40,000. (www.last.fm/music/mahlon+berv)
Mahlon is an ardent fan of film music, loving everything from Bernard Hermann, John Williams
and Korngold to Don Davis, Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass, and Bear Mcreary. In addition to music, Mahlon
studies philosophy as his second major. He is especially passionate about the Upanishads, Sartre’s
existentialism, Schopenhauer, and Zen Buddhism

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Legends of Tomorrow (2018)
TV Series Music department
Supergirl (2018)
TV Series Music department
Here Be Dragons (2018)
Film Composer
Not(e) for a Dreamer (2018)
Film Composer
Black Sails (2017)
TV Series Music department
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016 - 2017)
TV Series Music department
Love Machine (2017)
Film Composer
Minor Plight (2017)
Film Composer
Sacrifice (2017)
Film Composer
BDR Intelligent Skin Treatments (2017)
Film Composer
Der Lenné-Park Blumberg (2017)
Film Composer
Bob's Soul (2016)
Film (Short and Comedy) Composer When a bungled attempt at auto-erotic asphyxia goes awry, the recently deceased Bob pleads with his departing Soul for another chance to live a more meaningful existence.
Rotten (2016)
Film (Short, Comedy and Drama) Composer When 6 YO Little Suzie, who hates tomatoes, is forced to live with her tomato-obsessed grandma, she decides to kill grandma so she wouldn't have to eat tomatoes ever again.
M O N O - Y (2016)
Film (Short) Composer Set in of the moonlike space of Italy's Carrara caves, Enrico Poli's new fashion film M O N O - Y seeks "to define a union and an identity between a man and a woman, between black and white, between two lost souls".
The Walking Dead (2016)
TV Series Music department
Hunting Gatherers (2016)
Film Music department
The Little Match Girl (2016)
Film Composer
The Bunker (2016)
Film Camera and Electrical Department
DeathbedX2 (2015)
Film (Short and Drama) Music department The Burgen and Lasky families come together around the deathbed of their respective matriarch/patriarch.
Tango Shoes (2015)
Film Music department
Embrace (2015)
Film Composer
Naziha's Spring (2014)
Film (Documentary) Music department Add a Plot »
Sequela (2013)
Film Composer
Broken Bulbs (2012)
Film Composer