Photograph by Paul Quackenbush
Nicole Buetti
(Pronounced: NEE-Coal Byoo-EH-Tee)
Composer
Educator
Educational Content Creator
Songwriter
Performer
Voice Artist
Bio
Nicole Buetti is an award-winning composer with over 400 recorded and published musical works in a wide variety of genres. She has been composing professionally for more than 25 years. Nicole composes extensively for chamber ensembles, large ensembles of various configurations, as well as children’s music and music for media. Prior to completing her Master’s Degree at the University of Northern Colorado, she spent a decade in the Los Angeles area working as a composer in the film and television industry. (For a full list of credits click here.) She has been honored for her film score work at the Wild Rose International Film Fest, Dodge Grant Association, and Telly Awards Association.
Nicole’s chamber and orchestral music has reached audiences all over the world. Nicole has been appointed the Washington State Music Teachers Association's "Commissioned Composer of the Year" for 2025. She was also appointed the “Composer in Residence” for the Assisi Performing Arts Music Festival in Italy in 2013. Nicole’s chamber piece “Chameleons” received the honor of being a finalist in American NFA’s Newly Published Music Competition. Her chamber piece, “Halloween Masquerade Waltz” won Fan Favorite in the 10th annual Independent Music Awards (Best Holiday Song Category) and became the featured midnight waltz for the Annual PDX Vampire’s Masquerade Ball.
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Nicole is also a Partner of Goes to Eleven Media, a music & media publishing company specializing in children’s educational songs and videos featuring the popular puppet characters, The Nirks®. In 2017, she released her 6th album of educational songs for children titled “Just Be You!” This album was honored by both the Parent’s Picks Award for “Top 5 Best Preschool and Elementary Music CD’s of 2018” and “2017 Educational CD of the Year” by Creative Child Magazine. Her “Meet the Universe” musical, educational series was honored with and How To Homeschool Award for “Best Homeschooling Curriculum and Resources 2020-21.” During the pandemic, she collaborated with the Portland Columbia Symphony to create her “Meet the Instruments” series that introduces audiences to all of the instruments of the orchestra. “Meet the Instruments” received several honors, including a 2022 Parent’s Picks Award for “Best Educational Products of the Year,” and a 2022 How To Home School Award for “Best Homeschool/Curriculum Products of the Year.” It is also an educational resource for the Save the Music Foundation. Nicole is highly dedicated to bringing accessible, fun education to children through music.
When she’s not composing, Nicole is an active contrabassoonist and bassoonist. She is the contrabassoonist for the Vancouver (WA) Symphony, Portland Columbia Symphony and the Oregon Coast Music Festival, and Principal Bassoonist in the Portland Choir Orchestra. She also freelances and performs with ensembles all across the Pacific Northwest including the Oregon Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet and the Oregon Symphony. She has performed with the Haydn Music Festival Orchestra in Vienna, and as a soloist and chamber music artist with the Assisi Performing Arts Festival in Italy.
She teaches bassoon at the University of Portland, Willamette University and Clark College as well as maintaining a large private studio.
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In addition to her musical endeavors, Nicole is also an extremely active voice artist. She regularly voices and records for The Nirks® for their many educational songs and videos. Her most well known roll is as the voice of the adorable, astronomy-loving cyclops Vincent. Over the years, she has voiced dozens of different characters for hundreds of videos, songs and albums. Nicole loves coming up with new and unique character voices for the many different creatures, planets, and celestial objects created by the Nirks®.
Nicole thrives on creating music that uplifts, educates and engages audiences. She strives to create stimulating music that audiences and musicians can enjoy while embracing the beauty and whimsy of the world around us.
Awards & Honors
Telly Award Winner - The 45th Telly Awards - Online Children's Program
'Meet the Planets' - 2024
Best Homeschooling Curriculum Product on the Planet Winner, How to Homeschool
'Meet the Instruments' - 2022
Parents' Picks Award for Best Educational Products in the World
'Meet The Instruments' - 2022
National Flute Association Newly Published Music Contest Finalist
'Chameleons' Woodwind Quintet - 2021
Best Homeschooling Curriculum and Resources Winner, How to Homeschool
'Meet The Universe' - 2020
Parents' Picks Award for Top 5 Best Preschool and Elementary Music CDs
'Just Be You!' - 2018
Educational CD of the Year, Creative Child Magazine
'Just Be You!' - 2017
Composer In Residence for the Assisi Music Festival / Assisi Performing Arts
2013
10th Annual Independent Music Award Best Holiday Song Fan Favorite
'Halloween Masquerade Waltz'
2011
10th Annual Independent Music Awards Nominee for Best Holiday Song
'Halloween Masquerade Waltz
2011
ASCAP PLUS Grant Recipient
2005 - 2013, 2015 - Present
Principal Bassoonist Down Beat Magazine's 'Best University Orchestra' University of Northern Colorado
2002, 2011, and 2012
Anthony and Marian Menk Music Scholar Award
2013
Bassoonist for the Haydn Music Festival Orchestra (Vienna)
2009
Wild Rose International Film Fest: Winner, Best Music Short (Score and Song)
2009
Telly Award Winner Best Sound / Sound Design
'Cozy Mark IV' film
2008
Featured Soloist and Composer
Assisi Music Festival
2003 - 2005, 2010, 2011
Composer for the Dodge Grant Recipient Film
'The House'
2004
Composer for the Houston Worldfest International Film Festival - Best Bank and Gallery Commercials
2004
Finalist in the Turner Classic Movie Young Film Composer Competition
2002
Winner of the Southard Music Performance Competition (Woodwind Trio)
'Fellowship of the Reed'
2002
UNC Scholar's Award in Composition
2000, 2001
Gazette Telegraph Best and Brightest Competition Winner
1997
3rd Place winner of the Imagination Celebration Music Composition Contest
1997
FILM / TELEVISION / MEDIA CREDITS
FILM:
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Composer of DVD menu music for Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda
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Composer for Herod Production’s award-winning film The Line
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Composer for Nicole Buetti Film Walking With Giants
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Composer for the Sabina Shamdasani award-winning Film Bollywood Invasion
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Composer for the 4D Solutions Inc. Cozy Mark IV
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Composer for Videon Productions documentary Human Trafficking
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Composer of DVD music for the West Wing season 1
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Composer for the John Balkhi award-winning Short film Purple Star
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Composer for the Sabina Shamdasani award-winning Film Dada Ji
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Composer for 56 Film’s Darkness Roads
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Composer for the Matt Allen Short award-winning Film The House
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Composer for the 4D Solutions Inc. Osh National Air Show Documentary
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Composer for independent short film by Peter Fuhrman, Count Dracula
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Composer for independent film by Tom and Chris Barber, Nine Hours
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Composer for short subject film by Nicole & Anthony Buetti, Hammurabi Effect
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Music Editor for the Her Majesty Soundtrack
TV:
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Music Featured on the Harry Potter 20 Year Reunion Special
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Theme Music on Foudre (France)
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Composer For Portland Columbia Symphony & The Nirks® Meet the Instruments series
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Composer on the Nirks® Meet the Dwarf Planets series
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Composer on the Nirks® Meet the Planets series
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Composer on the Nirks® Meet the Universe Series
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Voice Actor for The Nirks® - since 2008
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Music Featured on Marvi Haemmer Presents (Belgium)
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Music Featured in the Pursuit of Happyness TV Special
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Music Featured in NFL Presents
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Music Featured on The View
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Music Featured on You: The Owners Manual
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Music Featured on Summer Crush (Italia)
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Music Featured on What’s Good for You (Israel)
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Music Featured on The Truth Is (Australia)
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Music Featured on Strike Force (New Zealand)
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Music Featured on Totally Australia (Australia)
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Music Featured on 13 Bian (Singapore)
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Music Featured in Strike Force (New Zealand)
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Music Featured on The Apprentice (New Zealand)
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Music Featured on RBT (Austrailia)
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Music Featured in Good Game (Australia)
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Music Featured in Surf Patrol (Australia)
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Music Featured in the 2006 Winter Olympic Games
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Music Featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show “Look Ten Years Younger”
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Music Featured on HBO First Look
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Music Featured on the Animal Planet Report
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Music Featured on Animal Planet
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Music Featured in Super Scrimpers Christmas Special (UK)
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Music Featured on Farma I (Greece)
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Music Featured on Gangs of Oz (Australia)
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Music Featured on What Now Sunday (Australia)
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Music Featured on What’s Good For You (Australia)
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Music Featured on Ko Tawa (Australia)
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Music Featured on Totally Wild (Australia)
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Music Featured on Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year (Australia)
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Music Featured on Comedy Christmas Cracker (Australia)
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Music Featured on Totally Australia (Australia)
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Music Featured on Let’s Get Inventing (Australia)
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Music Featured on The Erin Simpson Show (Australia)
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Music Featured on Ten 7 Crime Investigation (Australia)
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Music Featured on Good Game (Australia)
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Music Featured on A Current Affair (Australia)
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Music Featured on Shak (Australia)
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Music Featured on Sunday Night (Australia)
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Music Featured in Disc Health (Brazil)
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Assistant Orchestrator to Robert Irving for the NBC Movie 10.5
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Assistant Orchestrator to Robert Irving for the CBS Movie Saving Milly
ALBUMS:
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Composer on Portland Columbia Symphony & The Nirks® Meet the Instruments album
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Composer on the multi award-winning Just Be You! Nirks® kid’s album
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Composer on the Nirks® Meet the Dwarf Planets series
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Composer on the Nirks® Meet the Planets series
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Composer on the Nirks® Meet the Universe Series
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Composer on In A World’s Worldwide Horror album
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Composer on In A World’s debut album, In A World…
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Composer on In A World’s Hallows’ Eve album
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Composer on In A World’s Hallows’ Eve Vol. II: The Horror album
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Composer on In A World’s Hallows’ Eve Vol. III: Dead of Night album
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Composer on In A World’s My Halloween album
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Composer on In A World’s Haunted Nursery Rhymes album
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Composer on In A World’s Halloween Horror: Exhumed album
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Composer on In A World’s 13 Nights of Halloween album
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Composer of In A World’s Hip Hop Urban Horror album
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Composer of In A World’s It’s A Kidz World album
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Composer of In A World’s In A Snow Globe album
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Composer on Audio Faux Pas’ Goin’ Green album
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Composer on In A World’s Designer Sounds Plus album
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Composer on In A World’s Lifestyles album
MOVIE TRAILERS:
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Music Featured in Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda movie trailer
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Music Featured in the Trumbo movie trailer
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Music Featured in the Fred Claus movie trailer
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Music Featured in the V For Vendetta movie trailer
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Music Featured on the Miss Potter TV trailer
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Sound Design Featured on The Reaping
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Music Featured on Perfume movie trailer
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Music featured on Miami Vice TV trailer
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Sound Design featured in M. Knight Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water
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Music Featured in the Season 3 Battlestar Gallactica Ad Campaign
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Sound Design featured in the Superman movie trailer
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Sound Design featured in The Chronicles of Narnia movie Trailer
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Music featured in Woody Allen’s Melinda-Melinda movie trailer
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Music Featured in the Derailed movie trailer
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Music Featured in the Upside of Anger movie trailer
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Music Featured throughout the Season 2 Battlestar Gallactica Ad Campaign
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Sound Design Featured in the Shaggy Dog movie trailer
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Composer for the 4D Solutions Inc. Experimental Aircraft Promo
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Sound Design featured in the Dark Waters movie trailer
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Sound Design featured in the Batman Begins movie trailer
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Sound Design featured in Steven Spielberg’s The War of the Worlds movie trailer
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Sound Design featured in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy movie trailer
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Sound Design featured in M. Knight Shyamalan’s The Village movie trailer
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Sound Design featured in NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) trailer
TELEVISION ADVERTISMENTS AND PROMOS:
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Composer / Vocalist The Lottery Trailer
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Composer Lost Television Promo
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Composer Desperate Housewives Television Promo
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Composer Battlestar Galactica Television Promo
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Composer NFL Television Commercials
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Composer StargateSG-1 Television Promo
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Composer Everwood Television Promo
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Composer 8 Hewlett Packard Mission Critical and HP Commercials
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Composer WB Summerland Promo
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Composer ECO Seagate commercial
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Co-writer LA Opera Radio commercials 2004 season
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Composer for Award winning Art Gallery and Bank TV Commercials by Director Mike Trozzo
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Music Editing for Greeley (CO) Dance Company production of In Motion
VIDEO GAME TRAILERS:
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Composer Assassin’s Creed Video Game Trailer
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Composer Dead Space Video Game Trailer
THEME PARKS:
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Composer Knotts Berry Farm – Halloween Promo
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Composer Knotts Berry Farm Halloween Background Music
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Composer Canada’s Wonderland Halloween Background Music
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Composer Hysteria City Halloween Background Music
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Composer AtmosFear UK Halloween Background Music
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Composer Scream At the Beach Halloween Background Music
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Composer Rotten Apple 907 Halloween Background Music