Esin Aydingoz

Grammy® nominated arranger, composer, pianist & conductor, Esin Aydingoz, has signed with Different Direction Management for representation.

Esin Aydingoz is an emerging media composer and conductor working in animation, films, Television, video games, and stage musicals. Originally from Turkey, she moved to the United States to study at Berklee College of Music, where she recently served as the Assistant Chair of the Screen Scoring Department.

Recently, Esin scored the Hulu Original romantic film She Taught Love starring Arsema Thomas from Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story. Ms. Aydingoz was honored to be nominated for the prestigious "David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent" for the 4th Annual SCL Awards. Her shorts The Monster of the Desert, Noor & The Bomb have brought her several "Best Score" awards within the Indie circuit. She has written additional music on Apple TV's SEE and The Witcher: Blood Origin, and on Hallmark's One Summer, Presence of Love and on Netflix Princess Power executive produced by Drew Barrymore. Other career highlights were Simchas and Sorrows, Amazon Prime Video’s The Prevalence, Kino Lorber's Cinema's First Nasty Women series.

Esin is also a professional pianist and music director. She has arranged and produced various Disney albums and concerts, as well as been the assistant music director for their a cappella sensation, “DCappella”. She recorded piano on Sony's The Broken Hearts Gallery and Disney's High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and has worked as an arranger on Tim Burton's top-rated Netflix series Wednesday, which was nominated for a Golden Globe. Esin was nominated for a Grammy® for her arrangement (shared with Chris Bacon & Alana Da Fonseca) of the Rolling Stones iconic song Paint It Black, which was used in a pivotal scene in the hit Netflix series, Wednesday. The arrangement also reached #1 on Billboard in the Classical / Traditional charts & you can watch it on YouTube.

Esin had the honor of conducting Disney’s classic animated feature The Lion King as well as their live action version   in 2024 and 2025 in her home country.  Esin was asked not once but twice to be the music director and conductor of the prestigious Coco Live In Concert in North America by Disney Concerts and AMP Worldwide. The tour featured the accomplished Orquesta Fólclorica Nacional de México. Esin was the assistant conductor on The Lion King 30th Anniversary Live-To-Picture concert at the Hollywood Bowl in the summer of 2024. In 2019, she got to perform at The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as part of the Hollywood Turkish Film Festival. Her chamber music and solo piano works have been performed in LA, Istanbul, Boston, Riga, and Taichung and she had a world premiere of her orchestral and choral piece "A Shattered Fantasy" at the Auditorium Stravinski in Montreux, Switzerland in October 2022. In 2022, she was asked to arrange a concert suite of music for the inaugural launch of Disney+ in her hometown of Istanbul, Turkey for which she also performed piano with the Istanbul Film Music Orchestra. In February 2024, a chamber piece Esin wrote was premiered at one of the most prestigious venues in the world, Carnegie Hall in New York City! Also in 2024, Esin had another piece performed at the UN’s Global Women in Music Concert in NY. She's had the pleasure of working with Black Ink Presents as a production assistant & score reader on various Live-to-Film Concert Experiences at The Hollywood Bowl and The Greek Theatre in LA, such as Disney's Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas, and Coco, as well as Paramount Pictures' Rocketman.

Esin is a voting member of The Recording Academy and the secretary for The Alliance for Women Film Composers, a committee member of The Society of Composers and Lyricists.