Dave Holden was born in Surrey, England, in 1983. He grew up around the world, including places such as New Jersey, England, Illinois, and Nairobi, Kenya. Dave traveled back to the states for high school and college, where he attended The Berklee College of Music, to study film composition. He graduated in 2005, with a degree in Film Scoring.

Dave moved out to Los Angeles immediately after college. Over the last several years, he has had the opportunity to work with some of the film industries most successful composers, directors, and actors. In 2006, he was hired at Hans Zimmer’s Remote Control Productions. While there, he worked on a wide array of movies, television shows, and video games. Most notably was the Emmy awarding winning, Showtime original series The Tudors. Dave worked as the shows Supervising Score Coordinator. The music went on to win an Emmy for “Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music. “ While at Remote, he also worked on the music for Transformers, The Hills Have Eyes 2, and the video games Army of Two and Command and Conquer 3.

In 2007, Dave moved from Remote Control Productions to JNH studios, to work for A-list composer James Newton Howard. During his time with Mr. Howard, Dave worked on the films I Am Legend, Charlie Wilson’s War, The Great Debaters, The Happening, Defiance, The Dark Knight, and Salt. 

Dave went out on his own in 2008, to primarily work on independent films. Since that time, he has had the opportunity to work with many great independent filmmakers. Dave has composed the scores to the independent feature films Autopilot, The Way of Snow, The Removed, Embers of the Sky, Roller Dreams, Sustaining Life, After Dark, Grey Sheep, Cruel Will, Love or Whatever, Alien Hunger, and Hero of the Day. He also worked in the music department for the films Outrage and Countdown to Zero.

Dave currently keeps his studio, Dave Holden Music, across the street from Warner Brothers, in Burbank, California. He has a strong passion for working on independent films and collaborating with great filmmakers.