Named one of the Society of Composers and Publishers’ “Film Composers to Watch,” Gavin Brivik has won numerous awards, including the World Soundtrack Award for “Best Composition by a Young International Composer,” the ASCAP Jimmy Van Heusen Film Composer Award, the Alan Menken Composer Award, and the distinguished Elmer Bernstein Film Scoring Award.
Brivik recently scored the Golden Globe and Emmy winning Warner Bros/Max series The Pitt; Daniel Goldhaber’s Faces of Death, starring Barbie Ferriera, Dacre Montgomery and Charli XCX; and Russell Goldman’s Sender, which premiered at SXSW in 2026. Other notable credits include Neon’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline, directed by Daniel Goldhaber, which premiered at TIFF in 2023; Wild Indian, directed by Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., which premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — the score was nominated for a World Soundtrack Award — A&E’s documentary Series The Secrets of Playboy; Paramount/Blumhouse's The Visitor and Vertical Entertainment's The Seventh Day, both directed by Justin P. Lange; the 90th Academy Award-nominated short, My Nephew Emmett, directed by Kevin Wilson Jr.; Netflix’s Emmy-nominated original series Living Undocumented; Netflix/Blumhouse Productions’ Cam, directed by Daniel Goldhaber, which premiered at Fantasia Film Festival in 2018; and more.
Brivik studied contemporary classical and electronic music compositions at the University of Missouri-Kansas City where he combined his roots as an indie rock and folk guitarist with orchestral and electronic instruments. Brivik went on to receive his Masters in Music Composition for Film and Multimedia at New York University.
Brivik recently collaborated with Andrew Bird, for season 2 of The Pitt, writing the first original song for the series. Esquire Magazine said, “It’s perfect…it’s the perfect sendoff for a beloved patient.”
Gavin also released his debut solo album, “Realms and Forms,” with bitbird Records and MusicBed and has produced music artists like Cecile Believe.