Dillon Baldassero is an LA-based composer, producer, and artist from Toronto, Ontario, working across various mediums and genres. Most recently, he composed the music for the documentary Deepfaking Sam Altman which premiered at this year's SXSW festival, as well as the TV series Davey & Jonesie’s Locker, a co-production between Amazon Prime and Hulu for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award. He is currently scoring the forthcoming feature That Friend (Billie Lourd, Harvey Guillén) as well as the feature Ballistic starring Lena Heady (Game of Thrones). While Dillon’s first love was the orchestral compositions of composers like Steve Reich, Thomas Newman, Ennio Morricone and their contemporaries, his work draws equal inspiration from the queer underground, and the pioneering production of avant-pop musicians like Sophie, EASYFUN, Oklou and Oneohtrix Point Never, 

 

As a composer, his work has screened at TIFF (Mary Goes Round, Black Cop), SXSW (Rules for Werewolves, Deepfaking Sam Altman), and Fantastic Fest (Girl ). For his work on the feature filmThe Family,  he was awarded the grand jury prize by the Society of Composers, Authors, and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)

 

Dillon is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre’s Slaight Music Residency, chaired by Academy award winner Mychael Danna (‘Life of Pi’).

 

Last summer, Dillon released his debut EP entitled 'Pareidolia' under his solo project Leah's bf, a collection of experimental pop music, inspired by the novel sounds of the natural world, and whatever he was listening to on SoundCloud at the time. 

 

He is represented by Larissa Giroux at OAZ Management.