Peter Hobbs (composer)

Peter Hobbs (born 17 June 1970) is a New Zealand screen composer and musician. He has scored soundtracks for films, television, commercials, art installations, and contemporary dance works. He also fronts the band Lost Demos. Professional life Peter Hobbs has been awarded internationally as a film composer, and sound designer. He currently operates Harmonic Studio, a music and sound studio in Auckland, New Zealand. Hobbs describes himself as a “diehard advocate for the spaces between the notes”. Hobbs plays guitar and vocals for alternative country band Lost Demos along with Andrea Holmes on drums and backing vocals, Jon Baxter on trumpet, Puck Murphy on banjo and accordion, Kieran Scott on electric and slide guitar and Rua Sargent on bass. Their first song in three years was Watching the World Go Down in 2020, which is about the new Covid-19 era. Composing work Hobbs has composed soundtracks for a number of New Zealand films, including Jean, (the story of Jean Batten) for which he won a Gold for Best Original Music at New York Festivals Awards and Best Original Score at the 2017 NZ Television Awards. He scored James Napier Robertson’s 2009 feature film, I’m Not Harry Jenson and ha