Biography:

As a recording musician, Wes Costello excels in creating outstanding music across many genres. Guitar player by trade and with 20 years playing experience, his guitar sounds run the gamut from Eric Clapton and John Mayer to Guns ‘n Roses and Metallica. Although well-rooted in rock and blues, Wes also composes cinematic, contemporary electro/orchestral music in the style of John Powell and Hans Zimmer, as his film specialties include action/suspense, drama, and martial arts genres.

In 2006, having spent nearly 10 years in the Army and spending quite a long time in Iraq, Wes had lost most of his musical knowledge bank because he was so long out of practice, and he decided to really dig in and make music his passion again. Spending nearly 2 years practically relearning everything he could about his instrument and music, while at the same time cultivating relationships that might be mutually beneficial in his musical career, in 2008 he broke through and became a session guitar player at Score Concept (www.score-concept.com).

After expanding his musical efforts, Wes ventured into film scoring and multimedia projects. He soon began writing small bits for feature-length movies such as the award-winning Eyeborgs; The Intruders; and Never Surrender. With this experience, he cultivated smaller, short-film projects on his own including the award-winning martial arts short, "Five Minutes Flat" (www.naqproductions.com) a student-produced film titled "HazMat," and a web series titled "Searching." His music has been used for a contest-winning video for Harley Davidson; TV shows such as The Seven (MTV), Inside (NatGeo), Spy Wars (Discovery), Downsized, and Young, Broke, and Beautiful; and his instrumental Christmas tracks are a staple on Internet radio around the US.

All of Wes' music production takes place within his professionally-outfitted Mac-based studio, using Logic Pro.