Bio
Odysseas Papathanasiou Terzis is an award-winning Greek composer based in the United States, working in Film, Theater, and Concert music. He is currently a studio assistant at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions and is best known for his original score for the feature film Berend Botje (Netflix, Netherlands), directed by Mans van den Berg, which won the Apollo Global Music Award for Best Score in 2024.
Additional credits include music preparation for the feature films Moses the Black and The Block, as well as the video game Spirit Blossom Beyond by Riot Games. His work has been recognized with numerous awards and distinctions, including First Prize at the Bachdag Amersfoort Composition Competition 2022, Second Prize at the Four For Music Scoring Contest 2022, and finalist at the InterContinental Music Awards 2024, Apulia Soundtrack Awards 2023, the Oticons Faculty International Film Competition 2023, the NGC Composition Competition with Harry Gregson-Williams as head of the jury, and the Film Scoring Academy of Europe – Call for Scores 2022.
He holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Composition for the Media from the Eastman School of Music and previously had pursued music composition at the Conservatory of Athens, the HKU Utrecht Conservatory in the Netherlands, and the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in Germany as an exchange student, following earlier studies in Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
Throughout his career, he has participated in numerous masterclasses, film-scoring workshops, and festivals in all over the world, including NGC Lab with Harry Gregson-Williams, the Netherlands Silent Film Festival, and the Music and Cinema Marseille Festival, among others.
His musical language draws from classical, contemporary, jazz, rock, and folk traditions and has already had received multiple commissions and collaborated with many different artists, choreographers, theatre groups, collectives and companies such as Imitating the Dog, STEP, NOBS Entertainment, Riot Games and more.
