Dave Volpe

ComposerSongwriter

Mar 2

Written By Arbel Bedak

Featured Credits

Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-Shero

Carcerem

Home Invasion

Highlights Reel

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Credits

Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-Shero (2024)
Lost Wig Productions | Animated Feature
Dir. Anthony Hand
*World Premiere, 2024 Cinema Diverse: Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival
The Blessing Bracelet (2023)
Hallmark Channel | Feature
Dir. Michael Robinson
Composer, additional music
Baby Shark's Big Movie! (2023)
Nickelodeon | Animated Feature
Dir. Alan Foreman
Orchestrator
Clowning (2022)
Movie City Films | Feature
Dir. P.M. Lipscomb
Twelfth Night (2018)
Hollywood Shakespeare | Feature
Dir. Ned Record
Pretty Rosebud (2014)
Indie Rights | Feature
Dir. Oscar Torre
3 Holiday Tails (2011)
ION Television | TV Movie
Dir. Joe Menendez
Avatar: The Last Airbender (2024)
Netflix | Series
EP Albert Kim
Orchestrator
Ahsoka (2023)
Disney+ | Series
EP Dave Filoni
Orchestrator
Carcerem (2020–2021)
Podcast Series
Producers: William Holmes, Shane Salk
*Nominee, The Ambies, Best Original Score and Music Supervision (2022)
Home Invasion (2021)
Brain Academy / Nordic Entertainment Group
Dir. Don Bitters
Producers: Melanie DiPietro and Leonel Oliva

Bio

Dave Volpe (he/him) is a Los Angeles based composer for film, media, and the concert hall. He has scored a number of feature films along with countless shorts and media projects. Most recently he scored the animated feature MAXXIE LAWOW which will have its world premiere at the Cinema Diverse Festival in Palm Springs in Sept 2024 and will continue making its way around the festival circuit through 2025.

Other notable projects include his Ambie-Nominated score to the popular fantasy fiction podcast series CARCEREM, as well his score to the colorful sci-fi comedy series HOME INVASION (starring Morena Baccarin) and his dark, jazz-influenced score to the brooding noir feature CLOWNING in which he also played a supporting role on screen.

Dave has also lent his well-seasoned skills as an orchestrator to a number of films and series, most notably the critically acclaimed Star Wars series AHSOKA, the Netflix live action adaptation of AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, and the Nickelodeon animated feature BABY SHARK’S BIG MOVIE.

A graduate of the USC Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program, Dave was afforded the opportunity to work for and/or learn from some of the leading figures in film and television music including Thomas Newman, Blake Neely, Bruce Broughton, and the late Jack Smalley.

In addition to his work in media and the concert hall, Dave is a singer and accomplished choral arranger and composer. He has been commissioned to arrange for a host of LGBT choruses including the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, and the Turtle Creek Chorale (Dallas). His arrangements are performed by choruses all over the country year-round.

In addition to music, Dave is a comedic actor in commercials and movies as well as a voice actor. He is an avid cook, baker, reader, and podcast junkie.