Multiple BMI Award-winning composer Philip White writes music for film, television, interactive media, and the concert stage. He has composed the scores for Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming, The Loud House Movie (HMMA nomination for Best Original Score for an Animated Film), Jexi, A Madea Family Funeral, Nobody’s Fool, Boo 2! A Madea Halloween, and Alex & Me. Most recently, he co-arranged Wondrous Journeys, the Disneyland fireworks spectacular celebrating 100 years of Walt Disney animation.
In television, Philip most recently scored The Winchesters for the CW, and had the pleasure of working on Supernatural for the duration of its historic 15 seasons. Other major TV credits include Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Lost in Space, Ray Donovan, The Bachelor, What/If, Bates Motel, Agent Carter, When We Rise, Revolution, and Dallas.
He has written additional music for Smurfs: The Lost Village, Superintelligence, The War With Grandpa, Identity Thief, HOP, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Disaster Movie, the French thriller La Horde, and the holiday specials The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol and The Legend of Smurfy Hollow.
His interactive credits include James Bond: Quantum of Solace, Starhawk, Space Miner Wars, and The SIMS 3: Pets Expansion Pack.
Outside his work in media, Philip enjoys composing for the concert stage. Salastina, an LA-based chamber ensemble and presenting organization, recently released his Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp. In September 2024, they will also release fragile certain songs, a 6-piece song cycle drawn from poetry by e.e. cummings for voice and piano quintet. The Los Angeles Master Chorale has performed two of Philip's choir pieces, On This Side of the Window and El Niño Mudo.
His film music was performed live in concert at the 7th International Film Music Festival in Úbeda, Spain, in the summer of 2011. In addition, Philip collaborated with renowned Cuban jazz legend Arturo Sandoval as part of Christopher Lennertz’s Symphony of Hope: The Haiti Project.
Born and raised in Madrid, Spain, Philip began studying music by way of classical and Flamenco guitar. He graduated with dual degrees in Drama and Composition from Tufts University and the New England Conservatory of Music, and later received his graduate degree from the USC Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program. The Sundance Institute named him a fellow in the 2012 Feature Film Composers Lab. He is also an alum of the Nautilus Composer-Librettist Studio. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Maia Jasper White, their son, Galen, and their daughter, Naomi.