biography.
Kazimir Boyle was born in Chicago in 1976. He grew up playing the trombone and began writing music in his late teens.
His voice.
Kazimir established Flash Music LLC in Hollywood in 2003. In the years that followed, his composing brought him to Mumbai, Glasgow, London, New York, Chicago, Austin, and Nashville. His musical voice combines charm and wit, guided by melody and held together by an artful respect for arrangement.
In 2018 Kazimir moved his studio to Chicago, where he converted a hundred-year-old garage into the perfect studio. He began sharing his knowledge with the next generation of composers; teaching orchestration in the Columbia College MFA Music Composition for the Screen program.
Collaboration.
While working with Academy Award winning composer Hans Zimmer, Kazimir became proficient in the realm of electronic music production, which helped shape his career as a highly sought after support composer and arranger for feature films and television. In addition to Zimmer, Kazimir has been fortunate to have had opportunities to collaborate with many exceptional musicians including; living legend Quincy Jones, “Slumdog Millionaire” composer A.R.Rahman, James Newton Howard, Craig Armstrong, Aaron Zigman, and Emmy winners Jim Dooley and Trevor Morris.
Education.
Kaz received his Bachelor of Music in Composition from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he studied under P.Q.Phan, Scott Wyatt, William Brooks, Zack Browning, Erik Lund and John Melby. During his senior year, he received a commission to compose a new score for the 1922 Austrian silent film “Sodom Und Gomorrha”. This experience led Kazimir to the University of Southern California Film and Television Scoring graduate program, and further studies with Elmer Bernstein, David Raksin, Leonard Rosenman and Christopher Young.