About

Art of the Score is the podcast that explores, demystifies and celebrates some of the greatest soundtracks of all time from the world of film, TV and video games.

In each episode we’ll be joined by Andrew Pogson, Dan Golding and Nicholas Buc as we check out a soundtrack we love and break down its main themes, explore what makes the score tick and hopefully impart our love of the world of soundtracks.

Andrew Pogson

Andrew Pogson is a producer, director and jazz musician who has worked in the music industry for over 20 years. He is currently Special Projects Manager at the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, having programmed shows with artists like Sting, Randy Newman, Tim Minchin and Flight Facilities, along with movie projects like the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Back to the Future, Star Trek and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Andrew has also produced and directed many world premieres with the MSO such as The Doctor Who Symphonic Spectacular, Video Games Unplugged, Babe in Concert and This Gaming Life with music comedy trio Tripod (where he also hosts their podcast Perfectly Good Podcast). Find him on Twitter @JazzNerd. 

Dan Golding

Dan Golding is Professor of Media at Monash University, the host of Screen Sounds on ABC Classic, and an award-winning composer and writer. Dan is the author of Star Wars After Lucas (University of Minnesota Press, 2019), and created the soundtrack for the BAFTA, DICE, and GDCA winning Untitled Goose Game (2019). Other composing includes the soundtracks for Mars First Logistics (2023), Push Me Pull You (2016) and the Frog Detective series, for which his score for The Haunted Island (2018) won the inaugural APRA-AMCOS Australian Game Developer award for Best Music. Dan also composed the theme for the ABC’s flagship podcast, ABC News Daily. Find him on Instagram and Bluesky.

Nicholas Buc

Nicholas Buc is a composer, conductor and arranger. He has a Master's degree in Scoring for Film and Multimedia from New York University, where he received the Elmer Bernstein Award. He has written for ballet, theatre and television, whilst his film work has been screened at festivals and theaters around the world. He was nominated for "Best Original Song" in the 2007 APRA-AGSC Screen Music Awards and was winner of the 2015 NYU Film Scoring Competition. He is also a highly sought after conductor for live film concerts, including Psycho, E.T., Harry Potter and Back To The Future. He has appeared with all the Australian symphony orchestras as well as the Minnesota Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony. Find him on Twitter @BucNicholas.