Bio

David Arcus is a Toronto-based composer for film and television and a Juno-nominated producer. His film credits include Dark Match (2024, winner, best score, Blood in the Snow Fest), Knuckleball (2018) starring Michael Ironside, Fire Song (2015) which premiered at TIFF and Great Great Great (2017), which won best feature film at the Canadian Film Fest. From 2020-2023 he co-scored the Eli Roth-produced series The Haunted Museum with Michelle Osis and Terry Benn.

David is passionate about storytelling and draws on his eclectic and wide-ranging musical background, which spans from orchestral to electronic to Brazilian psych rock, to meet the needs each project he works on. After playing guitar in various bands throughout his teens and 20s, his love of film scoring eventually led him to the University of Toronto where he earned a degree in composition and was the recipient of the Glenn Gould Composition Scholarship. Whether scoring horror films, documentaries or animation, he loves collaborating to get to the heart of the story and draw the viewer into the world of the film.

In 2015, David graduated from the Canadian Film Centre’s Slaight Music Residency, where his mentors included Mark Korven (The Witch) and Lesley Barber (Manchester by the Sea). In 2016 he studied under the legendary Mark Snow (X-Files) and Sean Callery (24, Jessica Jones) at the NYU Scoring Workshop. In 2017, he took part in the Zurich Film Festival’s International Scoring Competition where he had the thrill of hearing his nominated score performed live by the legendary Tonhalle Orchestra. David has also composed music for ad campaigns by some of the world’s biggest brands including Coca-Cola, IKEA and Cadbury.

In addition to his scoring work, David has produced several albums, including the Juno-nominated Flores, Tambores E Amores by Brazilian-Canadian artist Aline Morales.