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Johan van der Voet (born June 18, 1970) is a Dutch composer of international television and film scores. Since 2009 he has served as the founder and chairman of the Dutch Multi-Media Composers Association, known in Holland as the "Beroepsvereniging Componisten Multi-Media" or BCMM. He also served on the board at BUMA/STEMRA for two years and continues to advise through his position on the Council of Members. Johan operates the Soundgram Audio Post & Music studios in Utrecht and is an active media composer and music publisher. He also manages Soundgram Music Library, a production music library featuring several respected Dutch composers and represented in more than a dozen countries worldwide.

Education
Johan studied classical guitar at Utrechts Conservatorium and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Film & Music Technology from the affiliated Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU) He has lectured about film scores, production music and soundtrack composition at various noted international conferences, masterclasses and workshops.

Career
After finishing his education in Holland, Johan set up shop in London to work as a composer where he wrote his first feature film scores while also working as a recording engineer at the Royal College of Music. He returned to The Netherlands in 2005 to open his own production studio - Soundgram Audio Post & Music. Since then his work continues, and includes scoring more than 60 films and television shows as well as corporate video soundtracks, short documentary films and commercial work.

In 2013 he began the Soundgram Music Library, an online resource that provides media underscores to music supervisors for placement. It is currently represented in over a dozen countries through various international subpublishers. His music has been featured in several American crime series including "Dateline NBC", "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", "True Crime with Aphrodite Jones" and "Fatal Attraction" (TV Show). The Discovery Channel, NBC, MTV, VPRO, CNN, and the National Geographic Channel are among the dozens of his international broadcast clients. .

In 2015 after Johan scored the feature film "Kristen" a CD of the soundtrack was released through Apple Music on itunes.

Johan co-wrote the single "Poedersuikerplein" with Paul de Leeuw for his 2016 CD "Land van Mij".

Awards & Recognition
Johan van der Voet was nominated as the "Best Dutch Composer in Media" at the 2012 BUMA Music in Motion conference in Amsterdam. He also scored "Wognam" the winner of Pathé Tuschinski Award for best documentary film at the 2018 Netherlands Film Festival. later that year.

Music for Television
Johan's music is used in television productions worldwide including: Dateline NBC, Chopped, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Why Planes Crash, How I Met Your Mother, Deceived, My Super Sweet 16, Bizarre Foods America, Evacuate Earth, Katie, The Voice van Vlaanderen, History Detectives, The Gadget Show, Angry Planet,  Familie, Hammered, Amazing Wedding Cakes and Snapped.

Music for Films
A sample list of films scored by Johan van der Voet: (see IMDB for complete filmography)