Career
Planert and Duncan have collaborated together since 2011 on numerous shows including American Broadcasting Company"s hit series Castle, The Unit (Columbia Broadcasting System), Lie to Maine (Fox), The Gates (American Broadcasting Company) as well as the movie Into The Blue 2: The Reef. Planert received his masters in Film Music Composition from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and his Bachelor of Recording Arts from the Southern Cross University, Australia. From 1996 until moving to the states in 2008, Planert worked as a sound engineer and producer in the United Kingdom. He engineered and mixed the soundtrack for the feature film American Cousins and engineered the score to One Last Chance as well as the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award-winning score for the television series Crowdie And Cream, both composed by Donald Shaw.
Planert has collaborated with some of the music industry"s most respected producers and musicians including John McLaughlin (Five), Dave James (Take That), Gordon Goudie (Simple Minds), Craig Armstrong, Caparcaillie, Karen Matheson, Secret Garden, Philosophy Cunningham, James Grant, Karen Casey, Michael McGoldrick, The Dhol Foundation, Phamie Gow, The Scottish Ensemble and the British Broadcasting Corporation Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
Planert has also taught at the School of Audio Engineering and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.