Cutting Room Music

What Cutting Room Music does

Cutting Room Music is a privately held music composition studio headquartered in Los Angeles that composes original music for visual media on a per-project basis. The studio is operated by a trio of composers — Mark Roos, Adonis Tsilimparis (co-founder), and Katherine Beggs — whose combined skill sets cover scoring/production, commercial music and multi-instrument performance, and songwriting/vocals. The studio serves directors, production studios, advertising agencies, and video game developers across film, television, documentaries, commercials, and themed album licensing, with one disclosed enterprise-level engagement being the Season 2 score for Amazon Prime's 'Trending Crimes' series.

The core product is bespoke original music composition delivered as a professional service. Technology is limited to standard digital audio workstation tools rather than proprietary platforms; the firm's value lies in the composers' creative output and accumulated award-winning portfolio rather than in a software product or platform. Supporting offerings include audio and video portfolio showcases and a themed album licensing catalog, which provides a semi-recurring revenue stream from pre-composed music collections.

The business model is straightforward professional services: revenue is generated per project, priced by scope, medium, and complexity, with no publicly disclosed rate card. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, relying on industry referrals, direct outreach via the website contact form, and content marketing through a blog and newsletter. The firm has no external institutional investment, no parent company, and no subsidiaries, operating as a founder-owned entity.

Name

Cutting Room Music

Legal name

Cutting Room Music

Website

https://cuttingroommusic.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Cutting Room Music is a Los Angeles-based music composition studio operated by three composers (Mark Roos, Adonis Tsilimparis, and Katherine Beggs) that creates original scores and soundtracks for film, television, advertising, video game, and themed album projects on a per-project basis.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Music Composition Services

NAICS

Sound Recording Studios (51224)

SIC

Services-Motion Picture & Video Tape Production (7812)

akta.pro primary industry

Custom Music & Original Score/Composition (MPAIALAD)

Keywords

• Film scoring services
• Original music composition
• Television scoring
• Commercial music production
• Video game music

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Custom Music Composition Services: Cutting Room Music composes original music tailored for clients in film, television, commercials, video games, and themed album licensing. Revenue is generated on a per-project basis, with pricing determined by project scope, medium, and complexity.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Cutting Room Music is a boutique music composition studio that creates original, custom-scored music for visual media including feature films, documentaries, television series, advertising campaigns, and video games. Operated by three composers (Mark Roos, Adonis Tsilimparis, and Katherine Beggs), the studio also licenses pre-composed themed album music collections to media producers.

Product overview

Cutting Room Music is a music composition service operated by a trio of composers (Mark Roos, Adonis Tsilimparis, and Katherine Beggs) who specialize in creating original music for visual media. The company offers original music composition as its core service, with additional offerings including audio and video portfolio services showcasing their work across films, documentaries, commercials, and video games. The portfolio includes completed projects while the company also provides themed album licensing for pre-composed music collections.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Original Music Composition Custom original music composition services for visual media, including feature films, documentaries, commercials, and video games, delivered by a trio of composers (Mark Roos, Adonis Tsilimparis, and Katherine Beggs) working directly with directors.
• Audio Portfolio Services Audio scoring and composition services for various media projects, showcased through the company's audio portfolio page.
• Video Portfolio Services Music composition services for video content, including film, television, and digital video projects, showcased through the company's video portfolio.
• Themed Album Licensing Licensing services for pre-composed themed album music collections for use in media productions.

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor.

• Amazon StudiosminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021Cutting Room Music worked on the second season of Amazon Prime's 'Trending Crimes' series, composing original music for the show. The project was scheduled for release in fall 2021.
• Trending CrimesminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2021The team composed music for Season 2 of the true-crime documentary series on Amazon Prime Video. This represents one of the studio production credits for the company.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Songtradr: Music licensing platform that distributes independent composer catalogs (including bespoke sync compositions) to film, TV, ad, and game buyers — adjacent infrastructure for the same client workflow.
• Audio Network: Major production music library with composers producing original cues for film, broadcast, advertising, and games; comparable on catalog licensing of original compositions for visual media.
• Universal Production Music: Global production music division of Universal Music; provides original commissioned scores and pre-cleared catalog cues for picture, comparable across both Cutting Room's custom and licensing streams.
• APM Music: One of the largest production music libraries supplying pre-cleared music to film, TV, ads, and games; comparable on the themed-album/licensing side of Cutting Room's offering.

Direct peers

• Really Slow Motion: Composer-led studio producing cinematic and trailer scores for film, TV, and games; matches Cutting Room's bespoke-original-score positioning in screen media.
• Bleeding Fingers Music: Hans Zimmer-affiliated composition collective scoring film, television, and games; comparable as a multi-composer studio serving the same director/showrunner client base with original bespoke score work.
• Position Music: Independent sync and trailer music publisher that commissions original scores and licenses catalog music into film, TV, advertising, and games — the closest direct peer in terms of bespoke composition plus sync licensing.
• Extreme Music: Production music catalog with original scores used across trailers, film, TV, and ads; overlapping with Cutting Room on original-composition-for-screen and themed album licensing.
• Epic Score: Composer-driven production music label focused on trailer, film, and TV scores; closely comparable as a small composer-led shop producing original cues for the same picture clients.
• Lyric House: Composer collective producing custom scores and licensing original music for film, advertising, and television; comparable three-composer-style model serving directors and agencies.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/cutting-room-music

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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