Milo Paulus (b. August 14th, 1999) is an award-winning Dutch composer, conductor, orchestrator and score producer specializing in original music for concerts, screen and stage productions. His catalog spans a diverse range of styles and influences for both instrumental and vocal works, as well as countless original soundtracks for films and video-games. His works have been commissioned and performed by various performing groups, festivals and institutions, like the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Flemish Radio Choir, Quatuor Alfama and Ma'at. His work as an orchestrator has been heard at the Royal Opera of Ghent, in numerous cinemas in Belgium and the Netherlands, and on television channels such as TG5 and BritAsiaTV.

He has collaborated with the Brussels Philharmonic, Video Games Europe, Digital Arts and Entertainment and Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, he frequently assists film composer Ruben de Gheselle, and recent clients include the famous beer brand Leffe, haute-couture Parisian fashion house Maison Margiela and various programs on Belgium's national television channel VRT (arranging for The Atomic Orchestra, among others). His work as a film composer has been heard in Kinepolis, Pathe, CineCity, Vue, Ziggo on Demand, KPN on Demand, and at film festivals of Leuven, Ostend, Amsterdam, New York, and Munich. His original soundtrack albums amassed more than 1.5 million streams on Spotify in 2024.

In 2021 — after completing two courses at Utrecht University dedicated to music theory and composition — he started his official higher musical education at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, for classical composition under teachers Daan Janssens and Dominique Pauwels, film composition under Ruben De Gheselle, while also studying orchestral conducting with Bart Picquer and choral conducting with Johannes Dewilde, as well as piano performance with Daan Vandewalle and Lukas Huisman. He graduated from the conservatory "magna cum laude" after premiering a 30-minute contemporary ballet, Omphalos, composed for, and produced in collaboration with, the Art Academy of Deinze. 

2025 - Joins the orchestration / arranging team at The Horns, working for some of Belgium's biggest pop artists, concert productions and national television programs.

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2025 - Works as an orchestrator for Senjan Jansen and world-renowned Parisian brand Maison Margiela, and their October 2025, Paris Fashion Week show.

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2025 - The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra performs "Pythia", a new commission written especially for the orchestra and its conductor Filip Rathé.

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2025 - Wins Best Original Soundtrack for The Nettle Man at the 6th Annual IFL Film Festival in Amsterdam.

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2025 - Selected as one of the few composers to participate in the renowned Film Festival Marseille Third Character program.

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2024 - Amassed more than 1.5 million streams on Spotify in 2024.

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2024 - Composes the 100-minute original score for the feature film Burgemeestersmoord (The Mayor Murders), which was shown in almost 300 cinemas across The Netherlands, and landed on various streaming services in December of 2024

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2024 - Works as a co-orchestrator for the Royal Opera & Ballet of Flanders' new opera commission Barzakh

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2024 - Graduates "magna cum laude" from the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, with a BA in Music Composition

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2023 - Composes the score for Orange Flavored Love, which won several major prizes across Belgium including the VAF Wildcards for a €200.000 prize. The soundtrack has since garnered more than a million streams on Spotify

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2021 - Starts studying composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and the Art Academy of Ghent simultaneously

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2020 - Writes his first original film soundtrack for Escape from Fremantle

Taking Care of Plants (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

(2025) - ca. 28' minutes - 16 tracks

Track list:

1. Taking Care of Plants — 1:04
2. Madeleine Calls — 1:01
3. Allow Me to Introduce Myself — 1:39
4. Drops of H20 — 1:17
5. Apple Bottom Beach Collection — 1:08
6. Deep Sleep — 1:07
7. Eugene's Groceries — 2:44
8. A Glimpse at the World Below — 1:04
9. Glitch in the System — 1:36
10. Emergency Light Strips — 2:48
11. Finding Light — 1:33
12. Candles — 3:21
13. On The Other Side — 2:39
14. Regrets — 3:16
15. My Sister's Wedding — 0:43
16. March 4th, 2089 — 1:17

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Plot Synopsis:

"A young, socially anxious influencer has isolated herself in an apartment building floating in outer space. She's been living her futuristic life on autopilot, stuck in a codependent relationship with her A.I. system, Lexi, until a blackout forces her to confront her fear of people and interact with her fellow tenants."