Kim Planert

Who is Kim Planert?

Kim Planert is a German film and television composer based in Los Angeles who recently scored the original music for ABC's drama series Missing alongside Robert Duncan. On November 2012, Planert and Duncan both won an Hollywood Music in Media Award for "Best Music in a TV Score" for "Missing."

Planert and Duncan have collaborated together since 2011 on numerous shows including ABC's hit series Castle, The Unit, Lie to Me, The Gates as well as the movie Into The Blue 2: The Reef.

His score for the film Nest of Spiders won the Gold Medal for Excellence at the Park City Film Music Festival in 2008.

Planert received his masters in Film Music Composition from the UNC School of the Arts and his Bachelor of Recording Arts from the Southern Cross University of Australia. His teachers include veteran composers such as Emmy Award-winner Hummie Mann, David McHugh, Sir Prof. Clive Pascoe, student of Leonard Bernstein, and Jack Smalley.

From 1996 until moving to the states in 2008, Planert worked as a sound engineer and producer in the UK. He engineered and mixed the soundtrack for the feature film American Cousins and engineered the score to One Last Chance as well as the BAFTA Award-winning score for the TV series Crowdie And Cream, both composed by Donald Shaw. Planert has collaborated with some of the music industry's most respected producers and musicians including John McLaughlin, Dave James, Gordon Goudie, Craig Armstrong, Caparcaillie, Karen Matheson, Secret Garden, Phil Cunningham, James Grant, Karen Casey, Michael McGoldrick, The Dhol Foundation, Phamie Gow, The Scottish Ensemble and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.