About

Jonah Raes is a Dutch/British composer recently graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire with First Class Honours in Composition.

At the forefront of Jonah’s work is the goal of evoking an emotional response in the listener, and he aims to strike a balance between accessibility and complexity in his music.

Music

Romance/reflective

Sci-Fi/horror

Adventure/Action

A delicate interlude for piano strings and brass

An inspirational and uplifting climax

A Journey

Joyful

Tense Car Chase

Terror

Space Ambience

Showdown

Choral

The WhaleWatcher Clip

Recent Full Length Works

The Whale Watcher (choral)

Day 1 (film)

Based on the powerful and moving poem by Kathleen Jamie, this choral work was commissioned in 2022 for the Trinity Laban Chamber choir and has been performed a number of times across London.

A hand drawn, animated short film by Fan Jinyue, a Masters Character Animation student at University of the Arts London. The film tells the story of a girl whose monotonous and unpleasant daily life is wearing her down, but whose perspective is changed by a visitor in her dream.

(work in progress)

An extract from a documentary, the music aims to capture how individual insects combine on a massive scale with many layers acting together to make a bigger whole.

Locusts (film)

Words based on the poem 'Lochnagar' by Kathleen Jamie.
For me the text evoked the wonderfully unpredictable experience of hiking in Scotland. Moments of beauty and awe in picturesque sunshine, can be closely followed by windy, freezing frustration.

Lochnagar (choral)

Demo Reel

A snapshot of my music for media including highlights from recent projects.