ROGER SUEN

COMPOSER

Composer extraordinaire Roger Suen has lent his expertise to numerous feature films, television series, documentaries, and video games. Recently, he has scored the Nicholas Cage and Ron Pearlman led action flick, The Retirement Plan, Paramount +’s YA rom-com, Love In Taipei, the upcoming Lilly Gladstone narrated and produced documentary, Bring Them Home, and the independent feature, Moloka’i Bound from Array Filmworks. Currently, Roger has been fast at work wrapping up the upcoming installment of the video game franchise, Assassin’s Creed Codename Jade. 

Roger is also a longtime collaborator of director Justin Chon having scored Jamojaya, starring Rich Brian, which premiered at The Sundance Film Festival in 2023. Blue Bayou (Cannes 2020), acquired by Focus Features, Gook (Sundance 2017) and Ms. Purple (Sundance 2019). Film Music Magazine said Roger’s critically-acclaimed score for the 2017 Sundance award-winning Gook was “powerfully unexpected, musical color” and included it in their Top 10 Scores of 2017.

Roger’s music can also be heard in Netflix’s popular action thriller Red Notice starring Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot; Warner Brother’s animated film, DC’s League of Super Pets, and the upcoming Borderlands film adaption of the popular video game of the same name. 

Roger’s diverse music portfolio further includes scoring additional music for Guillermo Del Toro’s four-time Oscar winning film The Shape of Water, the sci-fi thriller The Darkest Minds, Netflix’s five-time Emmy nominated series Daredevil, and Marvel’s Emmy-nominated series The Defenders. He also wrote additional music for AppleTV+’s Stillwater, Season 2, 3 & 4 of Charmed, Sy-Fy’s Krypton, Spider-Man and the Spider-Man: Miles Morales video games. Through his mastery of orchestral composition and modern electronica, he has created heart pounding additional music for blockbuster films such as Oscar-nominated X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, and Sony Pictures’ animated film The Star.

A Southern California native, Roger studied music composition as an undergraduate then graduate student at UCLA and CSUN. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California making music, climbing rocks and surfing waves.