MANNERS MCDADE - Key Persons


Aisling Brouwer

Job Titles:
  • Producer & Artist
Aisling Brouwer is a Dutch/Irish film composer, producer & artist based in Berlin, where she is a resident composer at Riverside Studios. She recently scored Sky Original Super Greed: The Fight For Football by Carl Hindmarch, as well as writing the music for the Amazon Original LIONESS (directed by Helena Coan) about World Boxing Champion Nicola Adams. Other recent credits include her score for the Sky documentary The Child in the Box: Who Killed Ursula Herrmann. In 2019 Rubika Shah's White Riot screened in cinemas around the world after winning - amongst others - the BFI Grierson Award in 2019 and a Special Mention Award at Berlinale International Film Festival. Aisling's scores have received attention from renowned film critic Mark Kermode as well as artist & radio presenter Tom Robinson. Aisling's artist project, alongside Anna Phoebe - AVAWAVES - is signed to One Little Independent Records (home to Bjork, Ásgeir, Poppy Ackroyd). Recently the pair scored the hit Apple TV+ period drama series The Buccaneers, for which the Original Soundtrack also included songs created for the show by artists such as Gracie Abrams, Warpaint and more. In 2021 they scored the ocean adventure feature Savage Waters directed by Mikey Corker and produced by Ghislaine Couvillat, which received its World Premiere at Doclands Film Festival in California in 2022, and won Best Feature Doc at the Wales International Film Festival.

Clarice Jensen

Clarice Jensen is a composer and cellist based in Brooklyn, NYC who graduated with a BM and MM from the Juilliard School. As a solo artist, Clarice has developed a distinctive compositional approach, improvising and layering her cello through shifting loops and a chain of electronic effects to open out and explore a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Pulsing, visceral and full of color, her work is deeply immersive, marked by a wonderful sense of restraint and an almost hallucinatory clarity. Meditative yet with a sculptural sharpness and rigour that sets it apart from the swathe of New Age / DIY droners, she has forged a very elegant and precise vision. Her music has been described by Self-Titled as "heavily processed, incredibly powerful neo-classical pieces that seem to come straight from another astral plane"; by Boomkat as "languorously void-touching ideas, scaling and sustaining a sublime tension"; whilst Bandcamp remarked upon "a kaleidoscope of pulsing movement rich in acoustic beating and charged with other psychoacoustic effects, constantly shifting in density and viscous timbre." Clarice‘s striking debut album For This From That Will Be Filled was released in April 2018 on the Berlin-based label Miasmah and followed in September 2019 with the Drone Studies EP, a cassette release via Geographic North. Signing to FatCat's 130701 imprint (Max Richter, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka, Dustin O'Halloran) in late Summer 2019, her sophomore album The Experience of Repetition As Death was released April 2020. Naming it among the top 50 albums of 2020, NPR remarked "This collection of requiems for a dying mother ranks among the great ambient albums of the 21st century." Her third album Esthesis was released on 130701 in October 2022. Jensen recently scored three feature films - Amber Sealey‘s No Man of God premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival; Takeshi Fukunaga‘s Ainu Mosir, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival; Fernanda Valadez‘s Sin Señas Particulares (Identifying Features), for which Jensen was nominated for a 2021 Ariel Award for Best Original Music by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. A versatile collaborator, Clarice has recorded and performed with a host of stellar artists including Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter, Björk, Stars of the Lid, Dustin O'Halloran, Nico Muhly, Taylor Swift, Michael Stipe, the National and many others. In her role as the artistic director of ACME (the American Contemporary Music Ensemble), she has helped bring to life some of the most revered works of modern classical music, including pieces by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Gavin Bryars, and more. In 2024, she co-scored the Netflix series Caught in the Web: The Murders Behind Zona Divas, with Aukai. Clarice recently toured with Balmorhea and embarked on a European tour in October 2023, which included some shows as part of ACME.

Harriet Moss

Job Titles:
  • Head
  • Head of Manners McDade at Faber Music
Harriet is the head of Manners McDade at Faber Music and Head of International Creative. Before the acquisition by Faber Music, Harriet became Managing Director of Manners McDade in 2018, from her role as Global Creative Manager since 2014. Previously, she has a background in PR, sync and brand-building for contemporary classical, alternative and electronic labels and artists including Max Richter, Ben Frost, Nils Frahm and These New Puritans, after gaining an HE Diploma in Music Performance followed by a BA in English at King's College London. Harriet is part of the Futures Group at the MPA as well as the UK Board for the leading voluntary international Women in Music organisation & network, shesaid.so, and is a co-founder of their mentorship programme she.grows. In 2019 she launched a concert series for women composers for film, TV and video games, composHER, with an inaugural concert at EartH, Hackney. Harriet was a PRSF Keychange Innovator participant, as well as Jury for the Classical:NEXT festival; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is recognised on a few years of the Music Industry Alternative Power 100 Lists, as well as the Music Week Roll of Honour. Harriet is the head of Manners McDade at Faber Music and Head of International Creative. Before the acquisition by Faber Music, Harriet became Managing Director of Manners McDade in 2018, from her role as Global Creative Manager since 2014. Previously, she has a background in PR, sync and brand-building for contemporary classical, alternative and electronic labels and artists including Max Richter, Ben Frost, Nils Frahm and These New Puritans, after gaining an HE Diploma in Music Performance followed by a BA in English at King's College London. Harriet is part of the Futures Group at the MPA as well as the UK Board for the leading voluntary international Women in Music organisation & network, shesaid.so, and is a co-founder of their mentorship programme she.grows. In 2019 she launched a concert series for women composers for film, TV and video games, composHER, with an inaugural concert at EartH, Hackney. Harriet was a PRSF Keychange Innovator participant, as well as Jury for the Classical:NEXT festival; she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is recognised on a few years of the Music Industry Alternative Power 100 Lists, as well as the Music Week Roll of Honour.

Isobel Leventhorpe

Isobel comes from a classical music background, having studied Music and History at Royal Holloway University. She is a classically trained opera singer but also loves to belt out tunes at karaoke. Her first job was at Decca Classics at Universal in A&R where she made Karl Jenkins ‘the worst cup of coffee he had ever tasted.' She then moved onto BMG where she was in the sync team for 4 and a half years, working across a wide variety of genres in film and tv. Her passion in sync is film and tv, with a deep love for all John Williams scores, having decided to work in the industry after watching Jack Black in The Holiday. Isobel joined the Manners McDade team in October 2023 and works across sync creative and sync licensing for both Manners McDade & Faber Alt. In her spare time Isobel loves to play netball, kickbox and swim. Her music taste is incredibly varied, yet she will still have Taylor Swift on her Spotify unwrapped every year. Isobel comes from a classical music background, having studied Music and History at Royal Holloway University. She is a classically trained opera singer but also loves to belt out tunes at karaoke. Her first job was at Decca Classics at Universal in A&R where she made Karl Jenkins ‘the worst cup of coffee he had ever tasted.' She then moved onto BMG where she was in the sync team for 4 and a half years, working across a wide variety of genres in film and tv. Her passion in sync is film and tv, with a deep love for all John Williams scores, having decided to work in the industry after watching Jack Black in The Holiday. Isobel joined the Manners McDade team in October 2023 and works across sync creative and sync licensing for both Manners McDade & Faber Alt. In her spare time Isobel loves to play netball, kickbox and swim. Her music taste is incredibly varied, yet she will still have Taylor Swift on her Spotify unwrapped every year.

Jenna Fentimen

Job Titles:
  • Head of Agency
Jenna is Head of Agency for the Manners McDade composer roster, both in the UK & Internationally. Joining Manners McDade in 2018, Jenna came from a background in Music Supervision. Previously in production music at Deep East Music - representing catalogues and managing bespoke projects for clients such as the BBC, MTV and Sky - Jenna began Music Supervising in 2015, moving to the Netherlands to open the Amsterdam office of bespoke music house Wake The Town. Jenna returned to London in 2017 working with both London and Amsterdam-based brands including PlayStation, Johnny Walker and Asics, before joining Manners McDade in 2018 as Music & Composition Producer. She founded the Women Composers' Forum in Autumn 2018, which has since merged with the LA-founded Alliance For Women Film Composers, with Jenna named UK Director of Relations and elected to the AWFC board for three terms. In 2019 Jenna was awarded a place in the shesaid.so Alternative Power 100 List, and in 2020 became the Music Industry Advocate for under-represented talent directory, Free The Work.

Jon Opstad

Jon Opstad is a London-based composer, working across film, television, contemporary dance and concert music. His music often combines contemporary classical elements with electronics, merging acoustic instrumentation with both modern and vintage electronic instruments and techniques. Recent work includes scoring the 10-part science fiction drama The Feed for Amazon, starring David Thewlis, Michelle Fairley, Guy Burnet & Nina Toussaint-White; 6-part BBC/UKTV crime drama We Hunt Together and 5-part BBC One period drama The Woman In White, starring Jessie Buckley, Dougray Scott, Charles Dance & Art Malik. Since early 2018 Jon has been the composer for the major Ubisoft video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, taking the place of original composers Ben Frost and Paul Haslinger. Other television scores include two episodes of Charlie Brooker's cult dystopian Netflix/Channel 4 series Black Mirror (White Bear, and the feature-length special White Christmas starring Jon Hamm); the second series of ITV thriller Safe House, starring Stephen Moyer; 5-part BBC thriller Thirteen, starring Jodie Comer; the acclaimed BAFTA-winning Channel 4 docudrama The Murder Detectives; BAFTA-winning BBC single drama Don't Take My Baby from writer Jack Thorne; BAFTA-nominated TV movie Cyberbully starring Maisie Williams; Channel 4's The Watchman, starring Stephen Graham; and the Savile episode of Louis Theroux's hard-hitting documentary series for BBC Two. Jon's composition Blue Sky, White Clouds was released as a single on the prestigious Deutsche Grammophon label in 2020, as part of their Project XII series. In summer 2019 Jon's composition Ignis IV was used as the score for the trailer for the film Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. Jon studied music at Cambridge University and film music at the National Film & Television School. After graduating he began his career by working extensively as an additional music composer, programmer and orchestrator for a range of composers including Jocelyn Pook, Max Richter, Martin Phipps, Ruth Barrett, Sheridan Tongue and Richard Thomas, across many film, television and stage projects. Jon was also additional music composer for the Oscar-nominated film Theeb. Jon's music often combines his classical training with a progressive approach to electronic music, as shown in his music for The Feed, which is scored for string orchestra, analogue synthesisers, vocals and electric guitars.

Laura Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Creative Manager
Laura comes from a classically trained background with a Masters Degree in Music Composition from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance Prior to joining Manners McDade in 2022 she gained 12 years experience in music supervision at independent creative music agency Soho Music, where she worked across all areas of music research, licensing and composition and most recently held the positions of Music Director and General Manager of Music Supervision. With composition as a key area of expertise Laura has produced a number of award-winning advertising campaigns for global brands such as O2, Nike, TikTok, McLaren and Cadbury. She enjoys taking part in panel discussions and juries for events and awards hosted by organisations such as BAFTA, PRS and the Music and Sound Awards. She has also delivered teaching modules and masterclasses on music business and pitching at institutions such as the Royal College of Music and National Film and Television School. Laura plays piano, clarinet and saxophone and outside of work and music she enjoys cooking, gardening and exploring the outdoors as much as possible.

Ruby Wasmuth

Job Titles:
  • Business Affairs Manager
Ruby gained a first class BA in Music Industry Management at Canterbury Christ Church University, followed by an MA in Film Studies at UCL with her dissertation focussing on contemporary film scoring. At university she was involved with the management of the student record label and concert series. She then worked at the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers & Authors, before joining Manners McDade as A&R Executive, working directly with composers for film and TV including ITV's Thunderbirds Are Go and Amazon's Catastrophe. Having recently completed a masters in Entertainment Law at the University of Westminster, Ruby began handling all legal and contract work for Manners McDade, before specialising in Commercial Rights Business Affairs for Faber Music. Ruby speaks on a number of expert industry panels in the UK as well as at international conferences Music Finland's Music & Media in Tampere and the East Coast Music Association in Halifax, Canada. Ruby was raised in Brussels, Belgium and is fluent in French. She plays the piano, and sings with Margate's Social Singing Choir.

Sarah Nelson

Job Titles:
  • Creative Executive
Sarah joined the Manners McDade team in 2021 as the Creative Assistant to complete her ‘year in industry' at the University of Surrey. After graduating with a First Class Honours BMus Music degree, Sarah started working as Manners McDade's Creative Executive in October 2023, working across the agency in contract negotiation, project management and score supervision. Sarah joined the Manners McDade team in 2021 as the Creative Assistant to complete her ‘year in industry' at the University of Surrey. After graduating with a First Class Honours BMus Music degree, Sarah started working as Manners McDade's Creative Executive in October 2023, working across the agency in contract negotiation, project management and score supervision.

Sebastian Lelio

Job Titles:
  • Chilean Director