Han Otten is a film and contemporary dance score composer, also working for television.
During his music studies at the Utrecht School for the Arts he already started composing for Dutch Film academy's studentfilms. One of his first projects was the score for the student film ‘Marionettenwereld’ by Elbert van Strien which won a Student Oscar in 1994.
He has been scoring films ever since and has created scores for a large number of feature films and worked with Peter Greenaway, among many others, recording with a broad palette of European Orchestras in the process. In 2021 the psychological thriller ‘Marionette’, a remake from the student film from 1994, premiered with his score, coming full circle.
Regarding contemporary dance, after colaborating with Leine& Roebana and Paul Selwyn Norton he started working with Jiří Kylián for 'Car-men' (2006) a dance film which won awards all over the world, and created 4 more soundtracks for Kylian, most recently ‘Scalamare’. His collaboration with Hungarian-Dutch choreographer Krisztina de Chatel comprises 13 pieces to date. A double bill with two of these pieces premiered in Amsterdam (ITA) in September 2022. He recently created the music for ‘Peter Pan’ (chor. Emanuele Suavi) by the Bavarian state theatre and Orchestra Gaertnerplatz in Munich.
Studio
He is teaching a Master ScreenScoring at Codarts, Rotterdam
He was a boardmember of the DutchFilmComposers association.
His fascination with creating sounds led to NoiseGuild, a company which creates Virtual Instruments, together with Max Frick.
