Hi, I'm Eric Santiestevan.

I’ve had a varied musical journey, singing in college with the Harvard Krokodiloes, playing in bands in the Boston indie scene, and then moving back to Los Angeles to score feature and short films. When my bandmate and veteran TV composer Paul Buckley needed an assistant, I leapt at the opportunity, and have spent almost a decade recording, mixing, and transcrib...
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Hi, I'm Eric Santiestevan.

I’ve had a varied musical journey, singing in college with the Harvard Krokodiloes, playing in bands in the Boston indie scene, and then moving back to Los Angeles to score feature and short films. When my bandmate and veteran TV composer Paul Buckley needed an assistant, I leapt at the opportunity, and have spent almost a decade recording, mixing, and transcribing music, sometimes at breakneck speeds on five shows at once!

I’ve tried to ‘fail forward’ into my areas of weakness. Because I was kind of a crummy piano student as a kid, I spent time in college and afterwards pounding my head against music transcription programs like Encore, and then Sibelius, trying to make up for ‘lost time’, reading music and furthermore, understanding it. Because I was never really assiduous in learning an instrument, I instead learned a bunch of instruments, from around the world–the Kazakh dombra, the shakuhachi, among others, and learned about music from everywhere. And because I was painfully aware of my own limitations as a composer in terms of delivering well mixed, realistic scores, I dove into my work at Paul Buckley Music, mixing and recording scores and songs to give them as much oomph or elegance we could deliver for the small screen.

So if you’ve felt like an impostor with your music–I can tell you, having lived with my own thoughts and spoken with many a professional–we’ve all been there. Let me lend you an ear and give you a hand. You won’t regret it.
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