About

Equally at home composing feature film scores, he has written music for films that have won awards at many prestigious international festivals, including a Gold Medal for the Best Use of Music in a Feature Film at the Park City Film Music Festival. He composed music for the third installment of the V|H|S horror anthology, indie horror favorites Dance of the Dead and The Other Side, as well as sci-fi mystery Yesterday Was A Lie. His most recent feature is the multi-faceted horror/adventure/comedy SiREN, produced by The Collective and Universal’s Chiller TV.
Carter is an active member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS). He has been a featured lecturer on film composition at the Univ. of Southern California, Univ. of California Los Angeles, Chapman University, California Institute of the Arts, Univ. of Texas at Austin, the Univ. of North Texas and the North Carolina School of the Arts. As a synthesist and electronic drum programmer, he contributed tracks to New Line’s Final Destination and several movies of the week. In the record world, he has collaborated with the Wallflower’s Rami Jaffee and blues guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and also co-produced several animated soundtrack releases of his scores on La-La Land Records. For the past nineteen years he has served as a special technical consultant to the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra on their Film Music Nights.
In the concert world, he has received commissions from renowned cellist Carter Enyeart, saxophonist Robert Austin and the University of North Texas Men’s Chorus. The work commissioned by Austin, Grand Duo Concertante, has been featured on several nationally syndicated college radio programs. After winning first prize in a statewide competition, Carter was selected to represent his home state—Texas—in the MTNA/Sheppard National Commissioning Composer of the Year Competition. The commissioned work, a suite for flute, violin and piano, featuring a narrator and dancers, was premiered at the state convention in San Antonio. He also served as the first composer-in-residence of the Bel Canto Northwest Opera Festival where his song cycle, Summer Scenes for Soprano and Orchestra, was premiered.
Carter graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Texas. While there, he won first prize in the UNT Concerto/Aria competition with his symphonic overture, A Titans Epitaph. The work received its first public performance by the University of North Texas Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of the noted Anshel Brusilow. Growing up in a small town in west Texas, his formative years were filled with music: working professionally as a church organist, assistant choir director, rock band keyboardist and bassist, orchestra stage manager, and arranger, taking every possible opportunity to broaden his knowledge and experience in music. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California.