Julian Brink - Julian Brink: Utility Music

Julian Brink is a South African composer. Born in Johannesburg in 1989, he ?rst picked up his mother�s guitar at the age of ten and grew up playing in rock bands. He discovered a love of contemporary classical music through the ?lms of Paolo Sorrentino and Paul Thomas Anderson. Hearing Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will be Blood, in particular, was what led him to pursue composition. Although he didn�t learn to read music until he was 19, while studying guitar at undergraduate level, He went on to complete a master's degree in ?lm scoring through Berklee College of Music and relocated to California in 2015. Brink works in ?lm music and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Maddie Hasson. His composer credits include the original scores for Amir Motlagh�s Three Worlds (2018) and No Longer Suitable for Use (2021), directed by Julian Joslin and produced by Sam Rockwell, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was featured in The New Yorker�s The Screening Room.