Alpha Dog Music: The old-fashioned music house for you… The modern storyteller.
Founded in 2010, we offer one-stop / turnkey musical solutions servicing film, television, advertising and video games clients globally.
We believe that audiences forge more powerful connections with narratives when they are more emotionally invested with the story. When carefully crafted, music offers a powerful tool to underpin, reinforce and guide the emotional journey sequence by sequence, shot by shot, frame by frame.
In the 21st century, we believe businesses should be inclusive, sustainable and socially conscious. Alpha Dog Music is an ambassador for ethical practices in the creative industries and always seeks fair outcomes for our clients and our creative partners.
Get in touch to find out how your story begins.
Clients we’ve worked with include…
Apple, Microsoft, Tencent, Volkswagen, Stella Artois, Deliveroo, Toshiba, Amazon Prime, Hyundai, Universal, Lionsgate, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, History Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Frontier Developments, Splash Damage
Apple, Microsoft, Tencent, Volkswagen, Stella Artois, Deliveroo, Toshiba, Amazon Prime, Hyundai, Universal, Lionsgate, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Sky, History Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, Frontier Developments, Splash Damage
Edward Patrick White
Founder, Principal Composer
Edward Patrick White is a British film, video game, advertising and television composer working in London and Los Angeles. He has written music for internationally broadcast TV series, AAA video games, feature films, and commercials for global brands. Known as a composer with classical credentials and a modern mindset, Edward is as comfortable with orchestras, chamber, jazz, and pop ensembles as he is with synthesisers, sampling, and sound sculpting – aspiring always to create music with emotional intensity and logic appropriate to the drama.
After graduating from the British Recording Industry Trust (BRIT) School of Performing Arts, Edward went on to attend the University of Sussex where he studied composition, orchestration and musical dramaturgy with English National Opera composer, Martin Butler.
After a short stint playing session guitar for Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dame Kiri Tekanewa and Boyzone; at only 22, Edward scored his first feature film, Lionsgate supernatural thriller, “Nine Lives.” Edward is currently working on the highly anticipated video game Transformers ReActivate for TenCent/Splash Damage. He recently scored the video game "Warhammer: Realms of Ruin" for Frontier Developments / Games Workshop (PlayStation 5, Xbox, Microsoft) and the British psychological thriller "The Waterhouse" for Take The Shot Films. Prior to that he scored the most recent Gears of War video game "Gears Tactics" for The Coalition (Xbox, Microsoft). His other film, television, and game credits include the Anchor Bay surf-drama, “Beautiful Wave”, Discovery’s “Railroad Alaska”, BBC’s “Harry Potter: A History of Magic”, History Channel’s, “Mankind: The Story of All of Us” and numerous others.
Edward has scored numerous high profile advertising campaigns including the Robert De Niro Warburtons commercial, “Goodbagels", Amazon Prime “Napoleon” & Stella Artois “Au Naturelle“. In May of 2018, Edward was awarded the Golden British Arrow for Original Music for his work on the Volkswagen Golf GTE campaign, “The Button.” The commercial also won a Clio.
Susanna Newman
Creative Services Producer
Susanna Newman is a diversely skilled producer based in London and working across multiple disciplines in music, advertising, video games and motion picture. She joined Alpha Dog Music in March 2023, and has quickly become a central figure for clients, managing several milestone projects including the AAA video game “Warhammer: Realms of Ruin” for Frontier Developments / Games Workshop (Xbox Series X and S, Playstation 5, Microsoft Windows) and critically-acclaimed British psychological thriller “The Waterhouse”, which opened FrightFest Halloween 2023 at Cineworld IMAX in Leicester Square, London.
Responsible for client liaison, project management and business development; covering production budgets, schedules, external contractors – music programmers, orchestrators, copyists, remote recording artists, fixers – Susanna ensures that production can run efficiently and productively delivering maximum return on time and budget.
Susanna’s experiences across film (producing the drama L’Hypermnesique, starring Agathe Natanson and Bernard Farcy), television (in production department on Madmoiselle Holmes - TF1, Marysol Newen) and commercials (in production department on NIKE, Chivas Regal, Capture One) make her an ideal business partner for storytellers working across a variety of formats.
In 2022 she graduated from the prestigious London Film Academy with a First Class Honours in BA Filmmaking and has since become the institution’s ambassador. During her studies, she directed and produced several shorts and commercials (IIM+, J’Amois). Susanna is a keen musician with formal qualifications in music, piano and singing (Trinity Grade 8). She has also conducted choirs, composed and played in bands.
Raphael Fimm
Composer
Raphael Fimm is a German film composer, orchestrator and arranger based in Vienna, Austria.
His dozens of film credits include over 10 feature-length films, such as 2022’s The Fire Cats, the 2019 South African romantic comedy Zulu Wedding, and 2017’s The Sunrise Storyteller. And among the many short films he’s scored, notable is 2023's L'Hypermnésique, an intimate, emotive tale starring Emmy-nominated actor Bernard Farcy and Agathe Natanson-Marielle. To date, he has worked on films featured on Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video and many more.
Raphael is recognized for innovative and highly sophisticated orchestral writing and arranging, memorable, singable themes and motivic long-form writing for cinema, and for his extensive experience working with live ensembles, including full-sized orchestras. Combining a thoroughly modern ear with a deep knowledge of classical orchestral music, and combining an ease with modern music technology with a more traditional, piano-and-paper-first approach to writing, Raphael has won numerous film scoring awards (see full list below), including Best Score at the Hollywood Art and Movie Awards in 2021, for the German cycling documentary Tour du Togo.
Raphael is known for creating scores that not only powerfully support a film’s narrative, but give a film a distinctive musical language. His music works beautifully as underscore while effortlessly retaining narrative coherence when performed as concert music or when experienced on a soundtrack album.
Raphael is also an accomplished pop music producer and arranger, having created arrangements for pop songs placed in films by UK singer-songwriters Katey Brooks and Emaé, and arrangements for Austrian singer-songwriter Nana Falkner.
Starting with classical piano training in early childhood, Raphael’s musical education experience includes an internship with well-known German film composer Gert Wilden, Jr., and an assistantship with Golden-Globe-nominated composer Alex Heffes (Mandela) at the Synchron Recording Stage in Vienna during the recording of Heffes’s score for The Arctic.
Raphael also holds a degree in media composition from Triagon Academy in Cologne, and a professional certificate in composing and orchestrating for film and television from the Berklee College of Music in Boston.