Biography
Ernest Troost is an American composer born on 19 June 1953 in Connecticut. He studied jazz guitar and classical music at Berklee College of Music before moving to Hollywood.
Troost composed the score for the 1990 film Tremors and for Dead Heat (1988). His other credits include The Canterville Ghost (1996), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or Special, and numerous Hallmark Hall of Fame productions. He has also worked as a conductor and music producer on various projects.
In addition to film and television scoring, Troost has released folk and Americana albums and won the Kerrville Folk Festival New Folk award in 2009.
