Elias Arts - Music House

Elias Arts began in the cinema, composing dramatic music for theatrical trailers. Today, we score for features, television, and of course, 30-second spots. We bring a cinematic approach to everything we touch, including commercials. When we score a spot, we don’t approach it as an ad. We approach it as a little film for a brand. To us, music is more than a bed to fill dead air in commercials. It’s more than meter to cut visuals to. It’s an element of the story. It should create powerful emotional connections to brands. It should make people feel something. Or it shouldn’t be there at all.


Awards 

• Elias Arts has won an Emmy Award for the "Move" theme for Nike Inc., and has garnered dozens of Clio Awards and other advertising trophies for work for top-line corporations such as Ford, GM, Nissan, Audi, Infiniti, Mercedes, AT&T, NASDAQ, IBM, Apple, Sony, Levi's, and Adidas.
• In 2004, he released American River, a work combining piano and string quartet compositions with spoken word performances by Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson,Marty Stuart, Rosanne Cash and Johnny Cash (in one of his last recorded works). American River was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album in that year