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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Works as an orchestrator for Senjan Jansen and world-renowned Parisian brand Maison Margiela, and their October 2025 show promoting their Co-Ed Spring Summer 2026 collection, as covered by Vogue.

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Fatum (dir. Pim Vogels) gets selected for the Imagine Film Festival in Amsterdam, and premiers there in October, 2025

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Burgemeestersmoord (The Mayor Murders) makes its broadcast television debut on Wednesday, September 10th, premiering right after a program commemorating the fallen soldiers of WW2.

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Only in Moonlight gets selected for the Nightpiece International Film Festival, and was screened at the Symposium Hall between 18th-23rd August, 2025 during the world renowned Edinburgh Fringe Festival (the world's largest arts festival), among other film festivals throughout Scotland and the UK.

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Composes a 20 minute piece for string trio, live vocals and live electronics for the Ma'at Trio (Griet, Jolien, Katrien) to perform at Leffe promotional events in Dinant and Rochefort on June 13th, 2025 and November 27th, 2025

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Assists the company Video Games Europe and conductor Frank Strobel in a live concert of video game music with the Brussels Philharmonic in Flagey on June 10th and 11th.

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In May of 2025, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra performs his new work "Pythia", written especially for the orchestra and its conductor Filip Rathé

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Works on Koning van de Zwervers ('King of the Vagabonds') as a music copyist-preparation, assistant orchestrator and assistant score producer for composer Ruben De Gheselle's original feature film soundtrack. It had its world-premiere in Amsterdam as the opening ceremony film at Cinekid Film Festival.

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

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Selected as one of the few composers to participate in the renowned Film Festival Marseille Third Character sessions, to meet and collaborate with international director-producer teams on their upcoming feature films and series.

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TAROT, directed by Kevin Pimentel, with an original score by Paulus, gets selected for the 2025 New York WCC Film Festival and wins Best Cinematograpy and Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Delaney Gruber.

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Works as an orchestrator and music copyist for composer Ruben De Gheselle on the TG5 and RTÉ One kids' television show, ShowKids, directed by Hugh O' Conor.

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The Nettle Man gets a premiere in Amsterdam, and a month later in London. Directed by Andreas van Riet, his previous film was the critically acclaimed adaptation of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis", which won Best Short Drama at the New Renaissance Film Festival in London, Best Editing and Best Cinematography at the Indy Film Library Awards in Amsterdam and the AMD Emerging Talent Award at the Global Entertainment Awards for the trailer.

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Releases his soundtrack for the game Bugshell, which gets placed on one of Spotify's official soundtrack playlists. The game gets nominated for Best Hobby Game as one of the five finalists for the Game Development World Championship Awards 2024: Winter Season (out of 2400 participants)

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Assists Belgian film composer and conductor Michelino Bisceglia with a recording session in DADA Studios for composer Quentin Sirjacq's soundtrack to Dandelion's Odyssey, an animated feature film by Momoko Seto.

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Records his song Wij Met Ons Twee ("The Two Of Us") in Plug The Jack Studios in Antwerp, with Belgian musical star and actress Laurien Onclin for the television soundtrack of Everything Feels Forever.

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After a very successful run in the Dutch cinemas (300+ showings across the country), Burgemeestersmoord (The Mayor Murders) became available online for streaming, on Pathé Thuis, KPN on Demand and Ziggo on Demand.

Reaches more than 1.5 million yearly streams on Spotify for just the 2023/2024 calendar year alone.

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The official recording of his original ballet Omphalos releases on all streaming platforms (conducted by José Brandão, performed by the Omphalos Ensemble. Recording engineer: Michaël Penson).

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The animated short film Skald's Tale premieres in the Budascoop cinemas in Kortrijk on December 18th.

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Starts Master in Composition for Film, Media, Theater & Games studying under Ruben De Gheselle, Dominique Pauwels and Joris Blanckaert

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Composes the 100-minute original score for the feature film Burgemeestersmoord (The Mayor Murders), which was shown 200+ times in more than 50 cinemas across The Netherlands

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Takes an intensive 'entrepreneurship in the music sector' masterclass with the world-renowned composer and conductor Dirk Brossé

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Works as a co-orchestrator for the Royal Opera & Ballet of Flanders' new opera commission Barzakh which premiered in the Ghent and Antwerp Royal Opera house in November

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Studies with Annelies Van Parys at "Soundmine" (originally founded by Wim Henderickx), and again with Diederik Glorieux and Hannes Vanlancker, among others

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

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Composes Omphalos (a ballet in five scenes for a chamber ensemble of 10 players), a 30-minute dance production for the Art Academy, Deinze

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Collaborates with multiple creative teams from the Kortrijk-based game- and animation university Digital Arts and Entertainment for a second time, to write the music for Skald's Tale (animated film), Bugshell (video-game), and What The Hack (video-game). What The Hack won Best Student Game at the 2025 Belgian Game Awards

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Composes the original soundtrack for the BritAsiaTV-production Powdered Nose, directed by Daniel Shakespeare, produced by Victoria Ounuha; it was shown on British TV channels.

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Conducts the Royal Wind Band of Menen in a successful series of rehearsals

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Definitive version of Brueghel's Winter gets performed by Maarten van Ingelgem and the De 2e Adem, Ars Vocalis Kortrijk and Huniyagar choirs in Kortrijk

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Premieres The Woman Calling, a large scale choral work on a text by Thomas Hardy for SATB choir, tenor soloist, piano, marimba and vibraphone, conducted by Johannes Dewilde

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Assists Belgian film composer and conductor Michelino Bisceglia with a recording remote recordings session with The Budapest Art Orchestra

Premiere of his choral work Brueghel's Winter (2023), performed by The Flemish Radio Choir, conducted by Diederik Glorieux

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Crosses half a million streams on Spotify for the first time.

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Belgian premiere of Enclave for violin and piano, performed by Bert Lasseel and Quirijn Debosscher

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Starts studying choral conducting with world-renowned conductor Johannes Dewilde

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Commissioned to write a new piece for the piano duo András Czifra and Rob Broek (Enclave (2023) for violin and piano) for Onno Witte's 'Enclave van Overvloed' art-and-music festival.

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Attends a summer course ("Soundmine", founded by Wim Henderickx) in music composition, engraving and analysis with (among others) Diederik Glorieux and Hannes Vanlancker

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A concert suite for string orchestra of his original soundtrack for the game Double Slam gets performed in De Zwarte Zaal in Antwerp

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The same Double Slam concert-suite for string orchestra gets performed in the Track Music Centre in Kortrijk

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Composes the score for Orange Flavored Love, which was shown in various cinemas and film festivals, and won several major prizes across Belgium including the VAF Wildcards for a €200.000 prize. The soundtrack has since garnered almost a million streams on Spotify.

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A suite based on the music from Orange Flavored Love was arranged for solo piano, and this specific version has since garnered almost 200.000 plays as well.

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Double Slam wins the top prize at The Rookies: Independent Game Awards. His soundtrack has garnered more than 150.000 plays on Spotify.

Animated short film Life is a Beach, with an original orchestral score by Milo Paulus, gets shown in cinemas in Kortrijk

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Commissioned to write a new string quartet (Passacaglia on a Theme by Béla Bartók, 2023) for the Alfama Quartet and their 2022/2023 concert season "German Romanticism"

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Conducts an evening concert of contemporary music of a fellow student at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent

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Premiere performance of his song for soprano, cello and piano (Golden Anniversary), written for Maria Florencia Molinero, Irati Erostarbe Maiztegi, Bert Lasseel

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Completes the 32 minute piano cycle: 9 Preludes: The Mythical Creature Chronicles (2021/2022)

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Conducts the Royal Wind Band of Zele for a series of rehearsals

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Releases Premiere: The Early Soundtracks; an album compiling all of the original soundtrack he has written throughout the years for various projects and short films.

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Orchestrates and produces music for American pianist and composer Antonio Romo.

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Completes his first short symphony for small chamber orchestra (study sinfonietta, 2021/2022) as well as his first string quartet (Cartoline)

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Collaborates a second time with producer Pim Vogels to work on Timelapse; an anthology project feature film directed by 13 different directors from across the globe.

Composes Strong (2021): an original work for chamber ensemble written for the opening scene from the opening act of a ballet scene directed by Sharon Eyal

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Works on Refractions; an anthology project feature film directed by 10 different directors from across the globe, produced by Pim Vogels.

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Starts studying composition and conducting at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent and the Art Academy of Ghent simultaneously with teachers Dominique Pauwels and Daan Janssens for composition and Bart Picquer for orchestral conducting.

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Composes the original score for the hand-animated short film Burn Out, by American director Margot Gordon

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Due to the popularity of his videos, and quality of the audio demo's, his works get used and licensed for advertisements and promotions for iPad-based music-composing software StaffPad (which was subsequently purchased by MuseScore). Milo has been an avid user of StaffPad and Musescore since 2020.

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Composes music for the Perth tourism & marketing advertisement short film, Perth ... I Love You, for Australian director Hassibulah Kushkaki

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Orchestrates and produces music for Dutch singer-songwriter Chris T. Rand

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Second collaboration with Australian director James Dudfield on the film Night of the Huntsman

Composes his first major concert-work, The Song of Lord Halewyn: a 15 minute tone-poem for large orchestra based on an old Dutch folk-tale.

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Writes the music for the graduating master-film of American film director Pablo Opazo called The Eagle Neclace

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Writes the original podcast music for Disagreeable, produced by Tom Williams

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Receives his first bachelor, a BSc specialising in marketing, programming and visual creativity at the age of just 20 from the Avans School, in Den Bosch

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Writes the original music for the SteamWaverz company advertisement, directed by their marketing team.

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Completes two courses at Utrecht University dedicated to music theory and composition with teachers Joost Kleppe and Floris van Bergeijk.

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Writes his first original film soundtrack for Escape from Fremantle, for Australian film director James Dudfield

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Releases his first acknowledged original work (Winter Sunrise: Complete Collection, composed between 2018 and 2020) on all major streaming services.

In August of 2020, starts writing original music and playing the piano in his free time, after only playing accordion and percussion for a long time.

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Continues to be an autodidact until 2020, where he starts taking courses and classes at the Utrecht University dedicated to music theory and composition.

Starts playing the accordion, drums and other percussion in various bands and music ensembles.

Born on August 14th in Kaatsheuvel, The Netherlands