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Lasse Elkjaer Andersen (February 10, 1978) is a Danish film composer and orchestrator known for his work in film and television scoring. He composed the score for the first Danish Halloween feature film, The Seekers: Thrill Night (Forsvundet til Halloween) (2021) and gained special recognition for his award winning score for the horror short film Sticks (2018) where Elkjaer worked with cellist Tina Guo.

He has also contributed with orchestral arrangements for symphonic metal bands including Dragony, Visions of Atlantis, Ebony Archways and collaborated with film composers such as Jacob Groth and Christopher Young,

Early life and education

Lasse Elkjaer was born February 10, 1978, in Nykøbing Falster, Denmark. His family have been working in the floral industry through several generations. Elkjaer holds a Master’s Degree in Film Scoring at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, South Danish Conservatory of Music and finished his studies in Los Angeles at the Thornton Screen Scoring Program at the University of Southern California (USC). Growing up, he studied piano, guitar and violin and played in several rock bands and classical ensembles.

At age twenty one, Elkjaer won his first prestigious award Berlingske Tidende / Rytmiske Musik Konkurrence for Composition and Performance.

Career

Elkjaer's first film score was for the independent film Brutal Incasso (2005), directed by Jonas Kvist Jensen. In 2012, he was hired as an additional orchestrator on the action film Dead Man Down (2013), starting his career working on big-budget films.

Since moving to Los Angeles, Elkjaer has been involved in films such as Bad Santa 2 (2016), the Chinese epic block buster Monkey King 2 (2016), NBC TV series Midnight Texas (2017-2018), and Netflix TV series Lost In Space (2018-). He has also done orchestrations for concerts, such as the charity concert Nordic Noir at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, done orchestral arrangements for several symphonic metal bands, and had his music performed by the LA-based ensemble Helix Collective at the Barnsdall Theatre Gallery in Hollywood.

In 2018, he gained special recognition for his award winning score for the horror short film Sticks (2018). Elkjaer worked with cellist Tina Guo on this score.

In 2021, Elkjaer scored the Danish featurefilm The Seekers: Thrill Night (Forsvundet til Halloween), produced by Copenhagen Bombay and directed by Philip Th. Pedersen. The film premiered in Danish theaters 7th of October, 2021. The film is the first Danish Halloween feature film. The film was nominated for a Robert Award by the Danish Film Academy.

In 2022, Elkjaer released his first solo album Landscapes & Vignettes. An instrumental album recorded with orchestras in Budapest and Prague, including several ensembles and solo musicians from Copenhagen, Serbia and Los Angeles.

In 2023, Elkjaer scored the Danish Sci-fi Drama Light of my Eyes (Kazarians Pagt) and was nominated in the category Best Original Music at Ekko Shortlist Award 2023.

On April 25, 2024, he got attached to the action film Stand Your Ground (2024) starring Peter Stormare and Eric Roberts.

Discography

Feature Films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2005	Brutal Incasso	Jonas Kvist Jensen	Score Composer
2013	Dead Man Down	Niels Arden Oplev	Additional orchestrations for composer Jacob Groth
2015	Dark Intentions	Chris Sivertson	Additional music
2016	A Father's Secret	Richard Schenkman	Additional music
2016	Monkey King 2		Composer assistant for composer Christopher Young
2016	Bad Santa		Music preparation for composer Lyle Workman
2017	Touching Sound the Technika Documentary		Additional music
2019	Viking Blood	Uri L. Schwarz	Score Composer
2021	The Seekers: Thrill Night (Forsvundet til Halloween)	Philip Th. Pedersen	Score Composer

Short Films

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2010	Opstandelsen	Casper Haugegaard	Novella film
2012	Himlen røvtur-retur
2012	Hooked
2012	Relapse
2012	Anhold mig
2012	At give slip	Rikke Louise Schjødt
2012	Half Past Original
2013	It's Cold and it's Stale
2013	Den grønne hund
2013	In Absentia	David Metz	Novella film
2013	A Little Visit
2013	For enden af molen	Kasper Møller
2013	And to You
2013	Yesterday She Was Here
2013	Scarlet Kiss
2013	The Shapes of Dreams
2013	The Recording
2014	Dig, mig & Junior
2014	The Inhaler	Danny Sawaf
2014	Gasoline
2014	Phantasmagoric
2014	Alice	Veronica Rodriguez
2014	Inhaler	Danny Sawaf
2015	Red Rider
2015	Pandora's Wake	Nicholas Dobkin
2015	Dødstriologien	Søren Grau
2015	The Lovers
2015	Mellem himmel og helvede	Søren Grau
2016	Kanon Rock
2016	The Ott Project
2016	RAE
2016	The Partitioned		Web Series
2016	Farren	Lizbeth Rodriguez
2017	Vinterfågel	Hanna Nygren
2017	Distance	Rikke Louise Schjødt
2018	The Lane	Johnny Wong
2018	Sticks	Kenneth Lykkehus Truelsen	AWARD
2018	Escape Room: Proof of Concept		Nominee
2019	When It Strikes	Rikke Louise Schjødt
2020	Gridlock
2022	Light of my Eyes (Kazarians Pagt)	David Metz	Nominee

Albums, EP, Singles

• 2013: Dead Man Down (Original Motion Picture Score) (Additional Orchestrations)
• 2022: Forsvundet Til Halloween (Original Motion Picture Score)
• 2022: Light Sound Action (Single)
• 2022:Yesterday She Was Here (Original Short Film Soundtrack)
• 2022: STICKS (Original Short Film Soundtrack)
• 2022: Landcapes & Vignettes (Album)
• 2023: The Dark Tapes (EP)
• 2023: RAE (Original Short Film Soundtrack)
• 2023: Lost Souls (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• 2023: Rakshasa (Original Music From Movie Pitch)
• 2023: Distance (Original Short Film Soundtrack)
• 2023: Jul Igen (Single)
• 2024: ClassDojo: Big Ideas Seasons 6 to 9 (Original Web Series Soundtrack)