Spectra Creative Agency Celebrates Pride Month 2024
As a gay-owned and run company, Spectra Creative Agency is proud to be a certified LGBT Business Enterprise® through the NGLCC and a member of the Los Angeles LGBTQ Chamber of Commerce. We value the importance of promoting visibility to underrepresented composers to broaden narrative horizons and multicultural authenticity within the film and television industry. This Pride Month we're proud to showcase and celebrate six composers for their excellence in the composing community and their work to pave the way for aspiring LGBTQ+ composers, artists, and musicians, as well as our own out and proud team here at Spectra.
Geneviève Gros-Louis (she/her)
A proud member of the First Nations community from Wendake, Québec, Geneviève is an esteemed violinist, film composer, and producer, whose interdisciplinary work spans the film, music, and fashion industry. As a composer, Geneviève has crafted impactful scores for film and television from her studio, Wendat Records. Recent score work includes season 3 of National Geographic's Life Below Zero: First Alaskans and is currently scoring season 12 of National Geographic’s Life Below Zero.
Brad Oberhofer (he/him)
Brad is a composer, artist, singer-songwriter, and music producer from Brooklyn, NYC and Tacoma, WA, now based in Los Angeles. Brad has toured and performed at major festivals around the globe, on Late night TV, and in commercials with his band, Oberhofer. His recent work includes Group Therapy, which recently premiered at Tribeca, as well as Hulu’s The Jewel Thief, currently up for Emmy® consideration for Outstanding Music Composition For A Documentary Series or Special (Original Dramatic Score).
EmmoLei Sankofa (she/her)
EmmoLei is an American composer, producer, musician, and artist whose work spans music, visual media, and fine art. EmmoLei’s original music can be heard on Hulu’s indie comedy Three Ways, the Disney Launchpad short Project CC, and Hulu’s The Other Black Girl, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Film/TV Score and is currently under Emmy® consideration for Outstanding Music Composition For A Series (Original Dramatic Score) and Outstanding Main Title Theme Music. Her unique approach to rhythmic textures and symbolism reflects the methodical approach to storytelling through her music that is uniquely her sound.
Stefan L. Smith (he/him)
Stefan has written music for concert halls, film, TV, video games, R&B, pop, EDM, as well as maintaining an extensive professional symphonic and recording performance career. He has served as principal (and/or acting principal) violist with the Hollywood Studio Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, The Academy's Oscars Orchestra, and many others. The composer for Warner Bros. Animation’s Batman: The Doom That Came To Gotham and a winner of the 2022 Hollywood Music in Media Award for his score to the animated short “She Dreams At Sunrise”, Stefan bridges the gap between the classical and contemporary music world, doing so with skillful command of the orchestra’s breadth and artistry.
Dave Volpe (he/him)
Dave is a composer, vocalist, and comedic actor based in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program at USC, he received the opportunity to study under Thomas Newman and work with many leading professionals including Bruce Broughton, the late Jack Smalley, and Blake Neely. Dave has scored for various film and TV series, including the podcast the popular fantasy fiction podcast series Carcerem. While having a wide breadth of musical styles, as a singer David possesses a keen skill for choral arranging and has had arrangements commissioned by a host of LGBT choruses including the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, and the Turtle Creek Chorale (Dallas).
Emily Wells (she/her)
Forging a bridge between pop and chamber music, Emily is a polymathic composer, producer, and video artist who builds songs from deliberate strata of vocals, synths, drums, piano, string and wind instruments. She has written original music for film including the end credits song "Becomes the Color" for Park Chan-Wook’s Stoker (2013), in addition to having her music extensively licensed across film, TV, and advertising, including features in Sharp Objects (HBO), Orange Is The New Black (Netflix), Bates Motel (A&E), Riverdale (CW), and The New York Times’ Diagnosis (Netflix), as well as in promotional media for Apple, Adidas, Nike, IKEA, among others.
And meet the fabulous Spectra Team!
Arbel Bedak (he/him)
Arbel is the owner and creative agent at Spectra Creative Agency, representing a diverse roster of composers and music supervisors and a catalog of music for licensing. He is a multi-faceted music creative who has worked across many aspects of music in media over the past decade, from creative sync to publishing to composer representation. A creative at heart, Arbel holds a Bachelor’s degree in composition from UC Davis and is passionate about helping composers at all stages develop their careers, taking a hands-on, collaborative approach to working with artists.
Larry Hong (he/him)
Larry is the assistant at Spectra Creative Agency and the creative force behind the agency's marketing. He is a Korean-American composer for film, television, and video games whose interest in both electronic and orchestral music stems from his scientific approach to thinking mixed with his classical training, finding what lies between the cerebral and emotional. He has assisted Michael Gatt (DC Super Hero Girls, Batman: The Long Halloween), as well as Wendy and Lisa (members of The Revolution and composers for TV shows such as Heroes, Nurse Jackie, and Shades of Blue.) Larry received a dual major in film scoring and electronic music production with a minor in video game scoring from the Berklee College of Music, as well as a Bachelor's degree in neuroscience from Brown University.