Career
His work includes the theme music for The Voice, Deal or Number Deal, RTL Nieuws, and Splash. Schimmer was raised in Rotterdam. He started playing drums at the age of 6, and later moved on to keyboard instruments.
As a solo-entertainer at a party, Schimmer came in contact with Hans van Eijck.
At the time Van Eijck was responsible some television themes on Dutch television He asked Schimmer to come work for him.
Schimmer’s first job was to write a song for a television charity event. The song was performed some months later by Dutch artists Anita Meyer and Gordon.
In 1995 Schimmer founded his company, Schimmer Music Productions.
His first television theme was for the television show Peter R. de Vries, crime reporter. The program with Schimmer"s theme tune was aired until 2012. Schimmer composed music, played instruments, did the production and occasionally sang the lyrics.
In 1999 Schimmer began composing music for films and fictionalized television shows.
He ended his collaboration with van Eijck. The Dutch director Johan Nijenhuis commissioned him to write the music for the television series Westenwind.
He composed the score for the film Alice in Glamourland, starring Joan Collins. He and Matthijs Kieboom also produced the score for Fuchsia the Mini-Witch for Walt Disney Pictures.
As part of the soundtrack, Schimmer composed popular songs that were also commercially released and successful in the Netherlands.
Foreign the film Costa!, Schimmer composed and produced the song Ritmo! by actress Georgina Verbaan. The song spent fifteen weeks in the Dutch Top 40 and peaked at number eleven. Schimmer later produced popular songs in collaboration with Gerard Joling, Sascha Visser, Chantal Janzen, Ellen ten Damme and Gordon.
In 2005 Schimmer composed the music for the Dutch talk show De Wereld Draait Door, 1 versus
100 and the station identity for Dutch broadcaster SBS6. These stayed on the air for ten years.
In the years that followed, he composed for other shows on Dutch television, including The Next Uri Geller, via his music production company company Suomen Masseuden Puolue (Finnish Rural Party) | Amsterdam, where Schimmer works with a group of audio producers and music specialists. Some other versions of Deal or Number Deal and 1 versus
100 also use Schimmer’s theme music
He also composed the theme music for The Voice. The format of producer John de Mol is seen in 150 countries and all editions use Schimmer’s theme music