Veigar Margeirsson is a film score composer and co-founder/VP of Creative at Pitch Hammer Music, an LA-based music production company that specializes in theatrical marketing campaigns, motion pictures, TV shows and themes. Veigar oversees a team of music composers, sound designers and mixers who create premium original music scores. Pitch Hammer has custom scored and secured licenses in hundreds of major motion picture campaigns, including blockbusters such as Joker, One Upon a Time in Hollywood, Green Book, Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Deadpool 2, and Ready Player One, to name a few. As a music composer, Veigar is regarded as an industry leader in orchestral scoring with thousands of combined placements in motion pictures, television, commercials and trailers. In addition to his promotional work, Veigar has scored many independent films. He was nominated for Best Score at the 2019 Music Awards for his score to the play 'Efi - Dæmisaga,' and he won Best Original Score at the 2011 Badalona Film Festival for the acclaimed short film 'In a Heartbeat.' Additionally he has written arrangements and orchestrations for many orchestras such as The LA Philharmonic, The Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and The Iceland Symphony Orchestra.Veigar is a frequent guest speaker and panelist on the subject of music scoring and licensing, and is a part-time lecturer at the Iceland Academy of the Arts.