Shaked Shachar

Shaked Shachar is an Israeli composer, arranger, and pianist. Shaked started playing the piano at age 9, with extensive classical piano studies in the class of Anna Raitburg at The Rubin Conservatory of Music in Haifa, Israel. In 2021, Shaked relocated to the United States to study film scoring at Berklee College of Music in Boston after graduating from the Composition, Arranging and Conducting department at Rimon School of Music in Israel. While at Berklee, Shaked performed as a pianist in the school’s jazz big band led by Tia Fuller (former saxophonist in Beyoncé’s all-female band), and recorded piano with Alan Silvestri (composer of “Forrest Gump", "Back to the Future”). During his studies, Shaked won the Barnes & Noble Books Award for outstanding achievement in the Film Scoring department and was selected for the prestigious Wachter Fellowship program. After graduating from Berklee, Shaked moved to Los Angeles to work at Bleeding Fingers, a Sony Music Publishing company founded by Hans Zimmer that collaborates with Extreme Music to create film and television scores. As a composer for media, Shaked strives to make music that emotionally connects the audience to the story, while paying attention to artistic detail that also allows the music to be enjoyable on its own.