Alexis Grapsas
Alexis Grapsas is a Los Angeles based composer whose music can be heard in a variety of studio and independent films, as well as top rated television productions. Originally from Lefkada, Greece, he started playing piano and violin at the age of 4, studied harmony and composition at the age of 7, and grew up in a classical conservatory his mother was running at the time, where he would spend hours practicing after school. After spending his early adult life in Athens, Greece attending college for composition but also mechanical engineering, his love and passion for music prevailed and earned him a scholarship to study film scoring in Boston, MA where his US journey began.
Alexis has been living in Los Angeles since 2008 pursuing a career as a film and television composer and has worked on more than 35 films and 300 episodes of television. With a background that combines classical music training, advanced composition studies, and deep knowledge of music technology, he uses a variety of scoring approaches that involve orchestra recording, unique acoustic instrument treatment, electronic sounds and music programming. He is very comfortable with large or small orchestral settings, particularly due to his experience scoring network productions that required live recording on a weekly basis. He has scored and recorded for more than 150 union sessions in LA as well as London. He is a Sundance Institute Alumni, Film Independent Fellow, and has won various composition and scoring awards.
He is currently based out of his studio on the Warner Bros Studio Lot. He has collaborated with many talented directors, studio producers, and top industry colleagues who trust his creative input and deep understanding of contemporary film making. Alexis is known for his score for the critically acclaimed feature film, Pig directed by Michael Sarnoski, the feature film Monday, the David E. Kelley series Big Shot, the series Trigonometry for HBO, and episodes of American Horror Stories. Most recently, he scored the feature film A Quiet Place: Day One directed by Michael Sarnoski for Paramount - the most successful installation of the franchise. Upcoming works include the Amazon Prime thriller series Malice
FILM
A Quiet Place: Day One
Studio: Paramount
Producers: Michael Bay, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, John Krasinski
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Spider & Jessie
Studio: Hungry Bull Productions
Producers: Jeff Hoffman, Dan Kay
Director: Dan Kay
Pig
Studio: NEON, Pulse Films, Endeavor Content
Producers: Danny Cohen, Stev Tisch, Aviv Giladi, Vanessa Block, Nicolas Cage
Director: Michael Sarnoski
Monday
Premiered at Toronto Film Festival
Studio: IFC Films, Faliro House, Automatik Entertainment, Protagonist Pictures
Producers: Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Damian Jones,
Deanna
Barillari
Director: Argyris Papadimitropoulos
TELEVISION
Malice
Studio: Amazon Prime
Director: Mike Barker
The Change
Studio: Expectation / Channel 4
Director: Al Campbell
American Horror Stories (ep 206 & 302)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Creators: Brad Fulchuk / Ryan Murphy
Empire (Additional Music)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Creators: Lee Daniels / Danny Strong
Big Shot
Studio: Disney+
Creators: David E. Kelley / Dean Lorey
Trigonometry
Studio: BBC, HBO Max, House Productions
Creators: Effie Woods, Tess Ross
