Music Supervisors

Carmen Montanez-Callan is an independent Music Supervisor specialising in Film & TV. She has enjoyed 15+ years success in placing music to picture and picture to music across Film, TV, Advertising and Music Video.

Carmen’s career began in 2004 as Head of Music at Academy Films, exec producing a roster of directors for Music Video, including Jonathan Glazer and Lynne Ramsay. She then joined Island Records as Music Video Commissioner and worked with artists including Amy Winehouse, Paul Weller and the Sugababes.

Carmen later moved into Music Supervision and has since supervised TV dramas including Bafta and RTS winning Murdered for Being Different, Bafta winning Don’t Take My Baby, feature films Wildfire and Bull, and feature documentaries Black Power, A Northern Soul and They Will Have to Kill Us First, among many others.

Carmen’s hands-on background in TV Production, as well as the Music Industry, gives her a full working knowledge and in-depth understanding of the processes of both industries and places her in a unique position as a Music Supervisor.

Isaac is an award-winning Music Supervisor specialising in trailers for film and TV. He was named AIM’s Music Supervisor of the Year early in his career in 2020 and has since garnered widespread recognition, with multiple Music & Sound Award wins, Clio and Golden Trailer Award wins, and two Guild of Music Supervisors Award nominations.

His work spans major titles for Netflix, Disney+, Universal Pictures, Sky Cinema and more, with standout campaigns including four seasons of The Crown, three seasons of The Witcher, and teaser trailer work for Guy Ritchie’s The Gentlemen. He currently leads the Film & TV division at Feel for Music, a boutique music supervision company.

Career highlights include attending the world premiere of The Crown’s finale with Netflix, after working on four seasons of their campaigns, and having his trailer cover of “Bittersweet Symphony” (with Fort Nowhere) featured on Spotify’s Best TV & Movie Tracks of 2022, alongside the likes of ‘Running up that Hill’ in Stranger Things – a playlist typically reserved for in-show placements, making it a rare and celebrated inclusion.

As a proud and vocal member of the LGBTQIA+ community as an openly trans man, Isaac is committed to building a creative industry where queer people are not only represented, but truly supported to thrive. His work and presence across the industry reflect a vision of joy, visibility, and long-term opportunity for underrepresented voices.

Ian’s extensive knowledge and experience of music and the industry is vast. His expertise in researching tracks and handling music clearances and problems solving budgetary issues, in addition to his strong ties with all the major and independent record labels and publishers has inevitably has made him one of the the first ports of call for all the a number of film directors and producers. Before becoming an independent Film Music Supervisor Ian built his strong reputation through his work as Head of Film and TV for Polygram Records; Head of Film, TV and Advertising and ultimately Director of the department at Warner/Chappell Music Ltd. With many successes in the world of music for advertising.

On the film side, Ian’s first film as supervisor was Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, which resulted in a double platinum soundtrack and a strong collaboration with Brit director Guy Ritchie and producer Matthew Vaughn. Ian was therefore Ritchie’s and Vaughn’s first choice for the follow up feature Snatch and Ian has worked together on all other subsequent films they have both made. From 2004 he went freelance and has enjoyed huge success as a Music Supervisor with credits from Control (Anton Corbin) Joe Strummer: The Future Is Written (Julien Temple) Kidulthood & Adulthood (Noel Clarke) Kick Ass (Matthew Vaughn) & 127 Hours (Danny Boyle) and included TV shows such as Red Riding for Revolution Films and Skins for Company Pictures.

Ian is now at Sony Music as Director of Film & TV and has continued to see success in the world of advertising, TV, films and computer games. Ian continues to run a freelance music supervision consultancy and works on a few carefully chosen projects every year. These include projects with Matthew Vaughn, Guy Ritchie, Ben Wheatley, Steve McQueen, Alfred Bailey, Julien Temple, Johnny Owen & Chris Atkins. He has also exec produced the feature film Sex, Drugs & Rock N Roll about Ian Dury and the upcoming documentary Who Killed The KLF with several other projects in development.

Most recently; Kingsman 1 & 2 (Matthew Vaughn) Eddie The Eagle (Dexter Fletcher) , High Rise & Free Fire (Ben Wheatley) Sunset Song & Quiet Passion (Terence Davies).

Claire is an independent music supervisor for film and TV.

Originally starting out as film composer, she then spent two years in music management
working with artists such as Yusuf Islam, (Cat Stevens), Lemon Jelly, and film composer
Trevor Jones.

She made the move into music supervision in 2008, working on films such as ‘Me and Orson
Welles’, ‘Wild Target’ & cult hit ‘The Disappearance of Alice Creed’.

Later credits include Working Titles multi award winning Stephen Hawking biopic ‘The
Theory of Everything’, Ricky Gervais ‘David Brent: Life on the Road’, BBC Films critically
acclaimed ‘Testament of Youth’, Hera Pictures gripping drama series ‘Temple’ for Sky,
Mammoth Screens Agatha Christie adaptations ‘Why Didn’t They Ask Evans‘, ‘The Pale
Horse’ & ‘The ABC Murders’, J Blakesons darkly comic drama ‘I Care A Lot’ and Amazons
comedy drama series ‘Mammals’.

Current projects include Severn Screens true crime drama ‘Steeltown Murders’ for BBC,
Ecosse films ‘The Great Escaper’ , S2 of ‘Signora Volpe’ for Acorn TV, ‘The Contestant’ for
Misfits Entertainment and House Productions horror feature ‘Starve Acre’.

Claire was also nominated for Best Sync, TV series in the 2020 International Music and
Sound Awards for ‘The Pale Horse’ and in the 2017 International Music and Sound Awards
& Music Week Sync Awards for the haunting film noir ‘City of Tiny Lights’.

Claire is a member of BAFTA & PRS.

Bruce is currently a Composer Agent for Commercials and Video Games at Air Edel, this role also cover the Live to Picture concerts catalogue.

Formerly, Bruce began working at EMI Music Publishing in 2004, spending time in Copyright, Royalties and Sampling departments, moving into Accounts and then Sync Licensing in December 2007. Over the years in this area he licensed commercial music into all types of traditional medias, TV, Film, Commercials, Radio and Video Games and oversaw the development of new and changing medias such as merchandise, video games moving from physical to include digital sales, cloud-based gaming, VR and AR productions.

Alongside the normal working day, Bruce took on the role of being an internal musicologist at EMI Music Publishing and what has now become Sony Music Publishing, helping the Sampling and A&R departments with new commercial works, EMI Production Music and KPM libraries and the sync licensing departments. He has continued his involvement with musicology independently, taking on new cases where necessary.

Beginning her career in the recorded and live music industries (Sony Music, Royal Albert Hall), Kadambari’s music supervision path saw her being selected for Netflix UK’s music supervision training/ mentorship programme in early 2024.

Kadambari is Music Supervisor at London-based Redfive (Film and TV),  with music supervision credits including The Surfer (starring Nicolas Cage) and We Bury The Dead (NEON), the fourth season of Emmy-nominated adventure series ‘Long Way Home’ starring Ewan McGregor for Apple TV, and an upcoming major comedy feature from the writers behind ‘The Hangover’.

She sits on the Full Working Board for UK & EU Guild of Music Supervisors.

Siân Rogers is a multi-award winning producer & music supervisor and SIREN’s Company Director.
Siân studied music from a young age; playing piano, flute and singing in choirs including The CBSO Chorus, The Bach Choir & NYCGB. Her first taste of the music industry was at XL Recordings / Beggars making copious, but rather wonderful, cups of tea followed by a 3 year stint at EMI.

In 2012 Siân joined the SIREN team and quickly fell in love with the art of producing music to picture. She has since worked on global advertising campaigns for top agencies & brands such as W&K, Nike, Droga5, Coca Cola, BBC, adam&eveDDB, Google, 72&Sunny and Samsung to name just a few.
Working directly with artists & composers on bespoke compositions, as well as sync, Siân has developed an outstanding reputation. She is renowned in both in the UK and overseas for expert client and artist management, and an on-point musical instinct.

As well as a vast array of high-end advertising projects Siân has also been involved in longer form music supervision including the feature films ‘Kissing Candice’, ‘River Runner’ and ‘Raging Grace’ which premiered at SXSW 2023 and won the Narrative Feature Competition award.

Siân is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, sits on the Board for The UK & European Guild of Music Supervisors and is currently on the jury for the 2025 BAFTA Television Craft Awards – Original Music: Fiction.

Throughout his early career, Tom worked across many facets of the music industry. He started in music marketing working on projects for Blink 182, Ash, Kaiser Chiefs and more, before moving on to work at the Camden Crawl music festival. His next move was into management (The Sunshine Underground) and finally landing at City Rockers record label as a marketing manager. Whilst doing all this, in his private life, he also ran his own record label, managed a band, ran club nights, put on live events and DJ’ed all across the UK (including at Glastonbury and Reading Festivals). This passion for music led to the next step in his career and matching music with visuals.

His music supervision journey started shortly after leaving City Rockers, at Stream Worldwide in 2008. Working in-house, he music supervised all projects for TBWA London and their clients (which at the time included Playstation, Nissan, Muller, Sony Bravia etc). In 2010, Tom moved to join Platinum Rye, where he moved focus from working just for TBWA, to focus on DDB London (now Adam&EveDDB on brands such as VW, Phillips, Tropicana, Budweiser, John Lewis etc) and other key London agencies. In 2016, Tom left to set-up Theodore and Wake The Town alongside Dominic Bastyra, Arnold Hattingh and David Bass. Both companies are now regular award winners at industry events and have expanded their offering beyond advertising to now also working in TV & Film (Midas Man, Industry etc).

Kathleen Wallfisch is a Scottish Music Supervisor, based between London and Berlin. She was most recently Music Supervisor for Gladiator II/Paramount, and Napoleon/Apple Studios, both directed by Sir Ridley Scott. She was nominated for a Music and Sound Award: Best Sync in Film/TV Titles, for Napoleon.

Kathleen started her company, Music In Vision, in 2017, after working as an on-camera cellist. She has cast musicians for a huge range of films, TV programmes, and commercials.

She graduated from the prestigious Royal Academy of Music in London with an MA in Historical Performance, specialising in baroque cello. She freelanced as a cellist for around ten years, before founding Music In Vision

Frederic Schindler, Founder & CEO of the leading international music supervision company Too Young Ltd., boasts a career spanning over 1,000 commercials and films.

‍Over the last twenty years, he’s expertly crafted soundtracks for iconic fashion, beauty, and luxury brands like Jean Paul Gaultier, Hermès, Rabanne, Prada and Chanel. His film work includes the acclaimed documentary “Uncle Howard” (2016), produced by Jim Jarmusch, and Berlinale Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs” (2022).‍

Passionate about artist advocacy, he´s collaborating with forward-thinking independent rights holders to launch Catalog by the end of 2025. This disruptive, curated music supervision platform streamlines sync licensing processes and empowers visual media storytellers and content producers to use relevant, bold, artist-crafted music while ensuring fair compensation.

Hollie Hutton is a Music Supervisor with over 15 years experience working on the creative side of music for all media. She works across Advertising, TV & Film and has sourced the music for much loved brands including Amazon, Bacardí and Magnum as well as supervising TV shows for the BBC and Netflix.

Alongside Hannah Charman, she co-founded RESISTER, a full service music agency back in 2020. The agency was born to resist the historical lack of women and underrepresented groups in music composition for all media. Their mission is to build a more inclusive music industry by advancing composer representation and amplifying diverse voices on all projects. She is also the co-founder of 515, a Composer Agency and dedicated home of women and gender expansive talent.

Hollie is passionate about championing underrepresented talent and diverse storytelling, ensuring music choices have an authentic voice. She is a strong DEI advocate, has participated in the shesaid.so mentorship programme as well as being a Female Frontier honouree.

Lauren Wilson is an award winning Music Supervisor with 12 years experience across Advertising, Video Games, TV and Film. Starting out in ads, she has worked on global campaigns for adidas, Mango, ASOS and Google. In 2018 she branched out into video games, supervising the soundtrack for Pro Evolution Soccer for 5 years. Since joining music supervision team 45 RPM in 2023, Lauren has worked across TV shows and Films such as The Gentlemen (Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series), Back To Black (Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse Biopic), Reunion (Warp Films ground-breaking TV series), Waterloo Road (long-standing BBC1 drama) and The Road Trip (Paramount+ rom-com series). She is also a drummer and has played in bands for the last 20yrs+, including most recently Our Girl who are signed to Bella Union and released their John Parish produced second record in November 2024.

Dina is co-founder/co-director of Planet of Sound, a Music Supervision & Licensing company based in Ireland and working across global Film & TV projects. Over the last 20+ years she has had the opportunity as a music supervisor to work on a dynamic range of projects, including most recently the film ‘The Apprentice’ as well as ‘Evil Dead Rise’ and the Oscar winning short ‘An Irish Goodbye’. Other film/tv projects include ‘The Young Offenders’ (film & tv series), ‘The Gone’ and the upcoming films ‘Soulm8te’, ‘Whistle’, ‘Saipan’ and TV series ‘Mix Tape’. Dina started her music career as a college radio DJ and soon after started working as a publicist at a number of indie labels in New York City. She then segued into music supervision, helping to start the music department at the Oxygen television network where she oversaw music placement for all productions and network initiatives. Additionally, she served as a Producer on the long running concert series ‘Custom Concert’ which featured performances by John Legend, LL Cool J, Alanis Morrissette and Kenny Chesney among others.

Jemma Skidmore is a seasoned music supervisor and consultant with over 20 years of experience in the music industry. She began her career at Kobalt Music and [PIAS], working across publishing, licensing, and artist services before transitioning into music supervision in 2009. Her early supervision roles included working with Cord Worldwide /Head of Music Buying at McCann Erickson, where she shaped the sonic identity of major brand campaigns.

In 2012, Jemma founded Skidmore Music, a specialist consultancy offering creative music supervision, sync licensing, and brand sound strategy across film, TV, digital media, and especially advertising. Known for her intuitive musical direction and deep industry knowledge, she works closely with directors, editors, and creatives to craft soundtracks that elevates storytelling. In addition to music supervision, Jemma also works at the intersection of music and brand partnerships, booking talent and negotiating artist collaborations for campaigns with major global brands such as PepsiCo, Rockstar Energy, Lipton, and Trainline, helping brands connect authentically with audiences through music-led campaigns and talent-driven activations.

Jemma has led music supervision for global campaigns across some of the world’s most iconic fashion houses, including Versace, Valentino, Jil Sander, Jimmy Choo, Tommy Hilfiger and many more.

Currently, Jemma also serves as Head of Music at Truant London, a creative agency celebrated for its innovative approach to advertising and branding. She collaborates globally as a creative and licensing consultant for Resilient Music LLC, where she has worked with clients such as Burberry since 2018.

Some recent 2025 work includes, Jil Sander Shows, Versace Eros, Valentino, Rockstar Energy, Marina Bay Sands, i came by train x Glastonbury artist movement campaign 2025, Lipton’s Kombucha launch, Nationwide

David Bass is a music supervisor and co-founder of Theodore, Wake The Town and Tell The People. His work spans everything from global ad campaigns to emerging artist projects, always with a collaborative mindset and an ear tuned to what’s next.

He’s been behind the music on standout campaigns for brands like IKEA (Silence the Critics and The Hare), Adidas, Beats by Dre and CALM.

His approach is rooted in collaboration, working closely with creatives, producers, and artists to deliver authentic and impactful music selections. From uncovering hidden gems to partnering with established talent, David’s contributions have helped shape a range of memorable audio-visual moments in advertising, TV and film.