Martijn Schimmer
| Martijn Schimmer | |
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| Born |
21 August 1975 Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Known for | Composer, Record producer |
| Website | http://www.smp.tv/ |
Martijn Schimmer (born 21 August 1975, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) is a Dutch composer and producer of television theme songs and film scores. His work includes the theme music for The Voice, Deal or No Deal, RTL Nieuws, and Splash.
Schimmer was raised in Rotterdam. He started playing drums at the age of 6, and later moved on to keyboard instruments.
As a solo-entertainer at a party, Schimmer came in contact with Hans van Eijck. At the time Van Eijck was responsible some TV themes on Dutch television. He asked Schimmer to come work for him. Schimmer’s first job was to write a song for a TV charity event. The song was performed some months later by Dutch artists Anita Meyer and Gordon. At the time, Schimmer was still a teenager living at home with his parents.
In 1995 Schimmer founded his company, Schimmer Music Productions. His first TV theme was for the television show Peter R. de Vries, crime reporter. The program with Schimmer's theme tune was aired until 2012. Schimmer composed music, played instruments, did the production and occasionally sang the lyrics.
In 1999 Schimmer began composing music for films and fictionalized television shows. He ended his collaboration with van Eijck. The Dutch director Johan Nijenhuis commissioned him to write the music for the television series Westenwind. He composed the score for the film Alice in Glamourland, starring Joan Collins. He and Matthijs Kieboom also produced the score for Fuchsia the Mini-Witch for Walt Disney Pictures.
As part of the soundtrack, Schimmer composed pop songs that were also commercially released and successful in the Netherlands. For the film Costa!, Schimmer composed and produced the song Ritmo! by actress Georgina Verbaan. The song spent fifteen weeks in the Dutch Top 40 and peaked at number eleven. Schimmer later produced pop songs in collaboration with Gerard Joling, Sascha Visser, Chantal Janzen, Ellen ten Damme and Gordon.
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