"Your music shows a lot of imagination and skill. I think you are very talented"
(Lalo Schifrin, Grammy Award winning composer, "Mission: Impossible")

"I want to emphasize Ady's extraordinary talent as a film composer.He has a rare and special gift to give musical expression to visual images"
(Zbigniew Rybczynski, Academy Award winning director, "Tango")

"Ady is an incredible composer"
(Steve Schnur, President, EA Music Group)

“I was completely taken by Ady's outstanding musicality and his ultimate mastering of any style needed. His range seems infinite: from classical to musicals, thrillers, romance and actually any genre one could imagine. I would mention one case in which I needed a unique combination of old Hollywood's adventure film music together with a sentimental intimate atmospheric theme, and in addition a kind of experimental oriental sound. All these in a very compressed time frame. Ady solved it very elegantly and by miracle managed to get a unity of style for these very different themes. All this in a completely unique, original and extremely effective way. Actually his musical ideas inspired my own cinematic ideas, and led me to new directions in the script.”
(Gil Alkabetz animation director and professor for animation at the HFF cinema academy, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany)

"You are a marvelous composer with real breadth of expression. The strength of character in your scores and the inventiveness throughout all of your music are fully appreciated"
(Ronald H. Sadoff, Ph.D., Associate Professor & Director, Dept. of Music and Performing Arts - Scoring for Film and Multimedia, New York University)

"Yours is lovely music, Ady, and provides some hope for the future of film scoring, for one reason, because it gets away from the handful of tiresome and musically uninteresting clichés we are exposed to in virtually every new theatrical film. Your lyricism and humanity shine through!"
(William Rosar, editor, "The Journal of Film Music")

“Ady Cohen, with his great talent, sensitivity, unique style and meticulous precision, re-defined for me the meaning of “a film composer”. He breathed life into our animation creations. With incredible technical mastery he created music on a level we have never experienced before in our productions, bringing our work to a new level altogether”
(Noam Meshulam, animation director and head of Pitchi Poy Animation Productions)

Ady Cohen is a film composer who also composes music for the stage, TV and the concert hall. He is the winner of the 1998 Israeli Academy Award for Best Film Score. The film, "Dangerous Acts", won seven Academy Awards including Best Director.

Having come from a family of musicians (most of them with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra), Ady was naturally drawn into the world of music, and soon enough became very successful at it. On the basis of his early work, the late Maestro Leonard Bernstein became Ady’s patron and sponsored his studies at New York University where he graduated with Honors as a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He proceeded to win numerous international awards and scholarships.

Ady has composed over 30 film scores in Israel, the USA and Europe. He has written the music for numerous theater plays and dance performances, as well as for TV films and series. His talents are also employed by the advertising industry in TV, cinema and radio commercials and jingles.

Legendary musicians, such as Grammy Award winning composer Lalo Schifrin (“Mission: Impossible”), have praised Ady’s music, and some of his illustrious collaborators include distinguished directors such as Academy Award winner Zbigniew Rybczynski (“Tango”) and animator Gil Alkabetz (“Run Lola Run”).

As a composer who specializes in dramatic music, Ady’s unique ability to compose in different musical idioms, combined with his sensitivity to atmosphere and nuance, has led him to work in diverse genres: drama, comedy, action, suspense, thriller, children, teens, narrative as well as experimental films, and last but not least, his recent favorite: animation.

His passion for animation and mastery of this genre caught the eye (and ears!) of renowned German publisher UBM Records, who decided to represent Ady as a composer who specializes in music for animation and for children from February 2011.

Ady shares his life with Bavat Marom, a world-renowned opera singer, their 2 children Lyle and Noot, and millions of cats.