Anže Rozman and Kara Talve: the music of Prehistoric Planet and Personal Reflections

Kara Talve and Anže Rozman are composers with Bleeding Fingers Music and together wrote with Hans Zimmer the acclaimed score to the incredible tv series Prehistoric Planet. I was so impressed by this series, and the first part of this episode digs into the unique instruments that were created for this powerful score, and the other part of this episode is a personal and in-depth conversation with Kara and Anže about their lives. They shared their individual stories about challenges, mentors, and have great advice for younger composers. In the show notes and linked to the podcast are 2 bonus tracks which are concert pieces by both Anže and Kara; these pieces are excerpted in the main episode as well. I’ve included detailed timestamps and you can listen to this on your favourite podcast player, watch the YouTube video, read the transcript and see the gallery of images related to this episode,all linked on my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/ane-rozman-and-kara-talve

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(05:10) creating the music for Prehistoric Planet with custom instruments

(19:23) help support this series through my Ko-fi page

(19:39) Euphone audio sample, more about unique instruments used in Prehistoric Planet

(22:46) Mark Deutsch Banzantar

(24:48) Bleeding Fingers Music, working with Hans Zimmer and Russell Emanuel

(31:08) Anže’s early years composing, challenges, networking

(34:08) excerpt from Flight/Death from Phoenix for Solo Flute and Orchestra by Anže Rozman

(34:49) finding opportunities to write for different instruments

(37:08) emigration: dealing with homesickness

(38:42) working with orchestras

(41:09) Berklee in Spain, networking skills, connecting with Hans Zimmer

(46:21) advice for people who want to move to LA

(49:13) Kara Talve experience of moving to LA

(51:57) composing for The Simpsons

(52:49) how Tara’s grandmother was saved from the Nazis by her piano teacher Andrée Levallois

(57:34) excerpt from “Winter Rhapsody” by Kara Talve

(58:45) mentors at Berklee Ruth Mendelson and Steven Hunt, Kara’s dad

(01:02:01) Anže reflecting on negative attitudes, advice about following your interests, Jani Golob

(01:08:07) Tara’s bad experiences with piano lessons