About the Composer

Carrie was writing music by age ten and scoring for a variety of emsembles by her early teens. At seventeen, her piece, Classical Flutes and Ivory, was performed by Northwestern University. This earned her acceptance and a full scholarship to music composition program at Roosevelt University. While completing her undergraduate degree, Carrie composed several orchestral works which received public performances throughout the Chicago area.

1999 Carrie accepted an assistantship from Carnegie Mellon University and moved to Pittsburgh to earn her Masters in Music Composition. While studying with Leonardo Balada, she specialized in orchestral and chamber works and won first prize in the Cuarteto Latinoamiercano String Quartet competition. At this time, she also realized her love of film music, working on several films for the Carnegie Film Festival and participating in a mentorship program with commercial composer, Greg Shearer.

2001 Carrie moved to Los Angeles to attend University of Southern California's Film Scoring program. While at USC, she studied with legendary Disney composer, Buddy Baker, as well as Chris Young, David Raksin and Jack Smalley.

2002 By private invitation, Carrie recorded her first CD of film compositions at Chris Young's studio. In addition, she recorded ten film cues at Paramount Studios.

2003-present Carrie continues to write music for both film and television. Among her credits are Starting Over for NBC; Aloha, Scooby Doo for Warner Bros./National Geographic; and educational films for California Public Schools, the Starbright Foundation and Eye Opener Productions. She has also scored many independent films including the documentary, Listen, which won awards at the Student Academy Awards and the Black Maria Film Festival.