Who

Film composer in Los Angeles and Berlin. Sun and Concrete opened at number one in German cinemas; Trigger Warning was the most-watched title on Netflix worldwide the week it launched.

More than ninety screen credits, over thirty of them feature films, five of them with David Wnendt. His instruments: orchestra and modular synthesis played as one, acoustic instruments through guitar amps, and a guitar viol he built himself. Each score is written from inside the story, in a dialogue with the filmmakers that starts with the script.

Enis has collaborated with visionary directors like Wolfgang Petersen on the heist movie “Four Against the Bank” and David Wnendt on both the satirical “Look Who’s Back” and the edgy Sundance Grand Jury Prize nominee “Wetlands”. He also scored the historical novel adaptation “Measuring the World”, recorded with the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna, which earned him a Jerry Goldsmith Award nomination.

A particularly fun project for Enis was Jason Lei Howden’s action comedy “Guns Akimbo” starring Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving. It let him channel his passion for electronic music, mashing up retro 80s and 90s analogue synths and sounds.

His collaboration with David Wnendt on “The Sunlit Night”, starring Jenny Slate and Zach Galifianakis, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. He loves to work across a wide range of genres: orchestral scores for children’s films like “Free Willy: Escape from Pirate’s Cove” and “Lassie Come Home”, an electronic score for the Wall Street drama “The Price” (director: Anthony Onah), a small string ensemble for the British drama “Love Sarah” (director: Eliza Schroeder), and a hybrid orchestral and electronic score for the psychological thriller “The Good Neighbor” starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (director: Stephan Rick).

Born in Berlin, he earned a scholarship for young composers before studying and working for seven years with Academy Award-winning composer Jan A.P. Kaczmarek on films such as “Finding Neverland” and “Unfaithful”. He graduated from the Film University Babelsberg in Film Composition and from the University of the Arts Berlin in Audiovisual Communication, was a Sundance Composers Lab Fellow and received the German Music Authors’ Prize for his work as a film composer. Fifteen years in Los Angeles; studios in both cities.

His musical range includes works for small ensembles and large orchestral pieces that infuse both rare and electronic instruments. He has had the honor to collaborate and record with some of the finest European orchestras and soloists, such as trumpet player Till Brönner, cellist Johannes Moser and violinist Kolja Blacher.

Enis is a member of the Deutsche Filmakademie, the European Film Academy, the World Soundtrack Academy and the Society of Composers & Lyricists; his works are registered with GEMA and BMI.