Music

Whether it serves to elevate the narratives of film productions, dance repertoire, or accentuate verses of company doctrine, music is an integral part of storytelling at GUILD OF KEEPERS. Our music production is managed and overseen by our president and lead composer, Landon Zientara.

We continue to produce albums and original film scores in a variety of genres and styles. If you are interested in original music for your film project, fill out our contact form on our home page! We’d be thrilled to work with you.

The original scores for our three latest film productions, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙖𝙚, 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙖, and 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙮’𝙨 𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚, were composed and conducted by Landon Zientara and performed by the UWRF Cinema Symphony Orchestra. You can watch 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙖𝙚 and 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙖 on the new Guild of Keepers YouTube channel (link in bio) and 𝘼𝙣𝙙𝙮’𝙨 𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 will be available online soon. If you haven’t yet, check out these incredible films and subscribe to stay updated about future projects!

The UWRF CSO was started by Dr. Casey Palbicki and his screen scoring studio at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls in 2025 and continues to perform the original works of students at the university. In 2025, Guild of Keepers produced a documentary featuring composers and members of the orchestra speaking about their experiences in the ensemble. You can watch the documentary on the UWRF Stage and Screen Arts Department YouTube channel.

This version of the Keepers Hymn is from our original documentary, Screen Scoring at UWRF. The documentary is a crucial component of Dr. Palbicki’s screen scoring curriculum at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls, and the Composers Institute Studio Camp at the university. Composers Institute offers two residential summer camps for musicians ages 13-20 at UWRF. Learn more about Composers Institute on the CI website (composersinstitute.net).

𝙒𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙨 𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙙, 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙙. 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙯𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩, 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙠 𝙪𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙡 𝙙𝙖𝙬𝙣 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩.

These incredible photos of the 2026 orchestral recording session for our short film, Andy’s Adventure (2026) were taken by UWRF Campus Photographer, Pat Deninger.

Landon Zientara is a music composer, film director, and fiction author from Minnesota who serves as the president at GUILD OF KEEPERS. He has composed original scores for feature films, short films, commercials, documentaries, and theater productions, and also has experience as a sound designer for film and theater, production assistant, client research assistant, video editor, and content producer for nonprofit organizations.

His recent projects include an original score and live musical numbers for an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, his original short film, Andy’s Adventure, and his debut dark fantasy novel, 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙆𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙖𝙚. The novel is an anthology of interconnected chronicles that weave a narrative of the sacred Great War Before, fought between divine forces on ancient worlds. Its tales and their bizarre diction are a core establishment of a cosmology and mythos for many tales to come.

You can order the book on our online store or purchase an ebook on the Amazon Kindle app.