Martijn de Man started his professional music career as a keyboard player for the Dutch rock band Urban Heroes. With them he recorded the album ‘Innerdream’ for Sony Records in 1994 and in the same year also performed with them on Parkpop, the largest free concert festival in Europe. Although Martijn enjoyed performing live, he developed a greater interest in music composition & sound design for film and became a fulltime composer in 1995. Highlights include scores for the documentaries ‘Oude Bomen’ and ‘We zien ons’ for Dutch television as well as immersive soundscapes for Ferrari: Under the Skin, van Gogh Museum and Dunhuang Caves. He is also the inhouse composer/sound designer at MCW Creative Agency in Rotterdam.