Max Aruj is an LA based composer who has collaborated with notable film composers such as Hans Zimmer, Lorne Balfe, and Rupert-Gregson Williams. Earlier in his career, he wrote additional music on the second season of The Crown for Hans Zimmer and Rupert Gregson-Williams. Alongside Lorne Balfe, Max Aruj provided additional music for the acclaimed television series HBO’s His Dark Materials as well as two box office hits Marvel’s Black Widow and Paramount’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.
Max’s first solo feature that put him on the map was Paramount Pictures’ Horror feature Crawl produced by Sam Raimi and directed by Alexandre Aja. He then scored two features in the same year: the Meyer Lanksy biopic titled Lansky, starring Harvey Keitel, and Netflix’s action thriller The Ice Road starring Liam Neeson. His most recent work can be heard in Scott Walker’s horror/thriller The Tank and Netflix’s highly anticipated The Old Guard 2 starring Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman.
Equally comfortable on the small screen, Max wrote additional music on Disney’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Assasin’s Creed Valhalla DLC. Most recently he scored his first Netflix series Mech Cadets created by Aaron Lam and Eileen Shim. Outside of film and television, he composed and conducted arrangements for recording artist Gryffin at Coachella 2019.
Aruj began his studies at the age of six in classical and jazz piano. Eventually, he went on to receive a Bachelor’s in Music Composition at the USC Thornton School of Music, where he studied composition with Stephen Hartke and piano with Daniel Pollack.