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About me

Cato Hoeben is a film composer who has been composing since the age of seven and played in bands such as the Islington Jazz Band with Paloma Faith and the Camden Youth Jazz Orchestra in London. He is a versatile composer having written music in various styles from gypsy breakbeat tango to contemporary piano pieces, however, his strength is scoring subtle emotive cinematic scores and comedy.

Cato has worked on a number of feature films and documentaries such as House at the End of the Street starring The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence, Blue Moon and co-composed Exteriors which was nominated for Best Debut Feature Film award at Raindance. On Netflix, you will find Cato's score for Eve's Apple, a documentary about female genital mutilation and horror feature Firstborn for which Cato provided over 25 cues of additional music.

He has also scored a range of short films such as The Super Recogniser starring Jacob Anderson (Game of Thrones), Catch, Match and Set Adrift for directors Jennifer Sheridan & Matthew Markham and 2by2 (part of In the Same Garden) and Love at First Sight for Playne which has received over 75 awards across 5 continents.

Notably, the film Rocket Cato scored won the grand prize at Virgin Media Shorts and led to him scoring the £30,000 BFI-funded film Acoustic Kitty. He has provided music for various productions including the 2012 Rolex Award Winner Saving the Siberian Tiger, the BBC comedy series Animal Crackers and written cues for features like Outpost: Black Sun, Dread and TV film Stalkers while working with 2021 Oscar Winning film composer Theo Green (Dune).

Recently, Cato won the Parma International Music Film Festival Violetta d'Oro award for his score for 2by2 and has picked up various awards on other projects such as White Wood by Lou Astbury which won the Wildscreen Festival BBC Newcomer Awards. Two years later, he scored Hudson's Monarch by filmmaker Mat Thompson which won the same award in 2010.

Cato has also written material for music production houses such as Deep East Music, EMI via JUMP under his pseudonym Hobo Canteen and Universal Music via Freshworx under pseudonym Adam Yates. He has worked with a number of creative agencies like AMV BBDO, TBWA and Wake The Town on campaigns for brands like Sensodyne, HomeGoods, ADT Security, National Lottery, 7up, Whiskas, Temptations and Virgin.

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Creativepool Annual

Listing of award wins in Creativepool's awards

Annual 2024

Charles R: The Making of a Monarch (BBC)

Charles R: The Making of a Monarch (BBC) for BBC Silver Music

Labour: Let's get Britain's future back

Labour: Let's get Britain's future back for Labour Shortlisted Music

Annual 2021

Rose: A Love Story

Rose: A Love Story for Jennifer Sheridan Bronze Music People's Choice Music

Annual 2020

Takaya : Lone Wolf

Takaya : Lone Wolf for BBC People's Choice Music

Dewars 'FOUR'

Dewars 'FOUR' for Dewars Shortlisted Music

The Snow Spider

The Snow Spider for BBC Shortlisted Music

Annual 2019

Sensodyne The Coldest City

Sensodyne The Coldest City for Sensodyne Shortlisted Music

Featured work

Work picked by the Creativepool editors for the homepage.

Charles R: The Making of a Monarch (BBC)

Charles R: The Making of a Monarch (BBC)

4 July 2024

Labour: Let's get Britain's future back

Labour: Let's get Britain's future back

28 February 2024

Rose: A Love Story

Rose: A Love Story

27 May 2021

Braun 'For the Sake of Keeping'

Braun 'For the Sake of Keeping'

26 August 2020

The Snow Spider

The Snow Spider

17 August 2020

Gillette - Everest

Gillette - Everest

1 February 2020

Sensodyne The Coldest City

Sensodyne The Coldest City

31 January 2019

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