Jeremy Zuckerman
Jeremy Zuckerman (born 1975) is an American composer of concert music, film and television music, music for modern dance, and experimental music.
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Zuckerman at 2011 Comic-con in San Diego, CA | |
Background information | |
Born | July 31, 1975 Newburgh, NY |
Occupation(s) | Composer, Musician |
Instruments | Guitar, Synthesizer, Guzheng |
Years active | 2001-present |
Website | http://www.jeremyzuckerman.com |
Background
At age five, Zuckerman began learning piano with his mother as his teacher.[1] As a teenager and into his early 20s, he played guitar and synthesizer in heavy metal and coldwave bands.[1][2] Zuckerman studied jazz and computer music at the Berklee College of Music, where he earned a bachelor's degree.[3] He earned a master's degree at the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied modern composition with a focus on computer music and sonic art with Morton Subotnick, Mark Trayle, and Tom Erbe.[3][4]
Career
Film/TV
Zuckerman began his career as a television/film composer as one half of The Track Team, a music and sound design company based in Los Angeles. He started The Track Team in 2004 with co-founder Benjamin Wynn (aka Deru).[5] Zuckerman created the music for the critically acclaimed television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender, which won a Peabody Award in 2008.[6][7] Zuckerman also composed the music for the Avatar: The Last Airbender sequel series, The Legend of Korra, and is set to compose the score for Netflix's upcoming live-action Avatar series.[8] Zuckerman's music is also featured in DC's The Spectre, Jonah Hex, Green Arrow, and Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam.[6][9][6]
Together, Zuckerman and Wynn created the music for the feature films Just Peck and A Leading Man, and the Nickelodeon TV series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness.[6]
In 2017, after two Emmy Award wins and five nominations, Zuckerman and Wynn announced the dissolution of The Track Team to pursue their creative and professional paths independently.[10][11]
Zuckerman went on to score both seasons of MTV's Scream: the TV Series, and the show's third season, acquired by VH1, Scream: Resurrection, as well as the PBS documentaries Nature: Snow Monkeys and Nature: Yosemite. Other documentaries include Beartrek, Stuntman, and This Little Land of Mines.[12][6]
Most recently Zuckerman, along with Josiah Steinbrick, composed the score for the new Jeff Baena film Horse Girl.[13]
The Echo Society/Concert Music
Zuckerman is a founding member of The Echo Society, a Los Angeles-based collective whose mission is to gather, inspire, enrich and connect the community through the creation and performance of new sonic and visual art.[14] The Echo Society's other founding members include composers Brendan Angelides (aka Eskmo), Judson Crane, Nathan Johnson, Rob Simonsen, Joseph Trapanese, and Benjamin Wynn.[15]
Zuckerman's music for The Echo Society concert series is predominantly chamber music, and the work “focuses on creating highly specific and controlled masses of sound using a combination of home-grown, semi-algorithmic processes and intuition. Using traditional orchestral instruments, these works explore complexity and transformation of sound and form, instead of the traditional melody/harmony paradigm.”[3]
Modern Dance
Zuckerman has worked with choreographer Benjamin Levy on Everyone, Intimate, Alone, Visibly, “in which extended vocal techniques performed and processed in real-time by Jeremy, intersect with Levy’s choreography to form a complex gestural dialog.”[3] He also worked with Levy on Khaos, which was commissioned by the Scottish Dance Theatre.[3] Zuckerman created the score for dancer/choreographer Lisa Wahlander's The Impermanent Sky, which was composed and performed live by Zuckerman using the audio programming language SuperCollider.[16]
Theatre
Zuckerman composed the music to playwright Juli Crockett's theatre pieces [or, the whale], a spoken word opera which debuted in Los Angeles in 2001, and Orpheus Crawling, an experimental opera which premiered in 2007 at the New Original Works (NOW) Fest at REDCAT.[17]
Discography
- This Little Land of Mines (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
- Beartrek (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2019)
- Yosemite (From PBS’s “Nature”) [Original Television Soundtrack] (2019)
- Snow Monkeys (From PBS’s “Nature”) [Original Television Soundtrack] (2019)
- Scream: The TV Series Seasons 1 & 2 (Original Television Soundtrack) (2016)
- Khaos (2016) - dance score
- Legend of Korra (Original Music from Book One) (2013)
- A Leading Man (Original Score) (2013 - with Benjamin Wynn)
- DC Showcase: Superman / Shazam! The Return of Black Adam (2011 - with Benjamin Wynn) - score soundtrack
- Egantic (2010) - Ginormous remix album. Tracks 1 and 4[18]
- Diamond Dave (2003) - David Lee Roth album. Credits include: guitar, accordion, Fender Rhodes piano, Hammond B-3 organ, percussion, programming, engineer, producer, digital editing, sound design[19]
Awards/Achievements
- 2019 Doc LA Film Festival (won) - Best Composer(tie) for This little Land of Mines[20]
- 2018 News & Documentary Emmy Awards (nominated) - Outstanding Music and Sound for Nature: Yosemite[10]
- 2017 Daytime Emmy Awards (nominated) - Outstanding Sound Editing (Music) for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness[21]
- 2015 Daytime Emmy Awards (won) - Outstanding Sound Editing (Music) for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness[21]
- 2015 News & Documentary Emmy Awards (nominated) - Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music and Sound for Nature: Snow Monkeys[10]
- 2014 Daytime Emmy Awards (nominated) - Outstanding Sound Editing (Music) for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness[21]
- 2014 Playfest (Malaga, Spain) - Featured composer. Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra suites performed by orchestra and choir[22]
- 2013 Daytime Emmy Awards (nominated) - Outstanding Sound Editing (Music) for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness[21]
- 2013 GoldSpirit Awards (nominated) - Best TV Soundtrack for Legend of Korra (Original Music from Book One)[23]
- 2012 Daytime Emmy Awards (won) - Outstanding Sound Editing (Music) for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness[21]
- 2011 Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA (nominated) - Best Sound Editing for DC Showcase: Jonah Hex[10]
- 2009 Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA (nominated) - Best Sound Editing for Avatar: The Last Airbender[10]
See also
- List of soundtrack composers
References
- Jeremy Zuckerman Interview, retrieved 2019-09-01
- "Kung Fu Jesus music, videos, stats, and photos". Last.fm. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "Jeremy Zuckerman". Jeremy Zuckerman. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "Jeremy Zuckerman CV 2016". Issuu. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "Music Interview with the Track Team (part 1 of 3) :: AvatarSpirit.net". www.avatarspirit.net. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "Jeremy Zuckerman". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "Avatar: The Last Airbender". www.peabodyawards.com. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- Jacobs, Mira (2018-09-21). "Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender Adds Another Name From Animated Series". CBR. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
- Nast, Condé. "How a Nickelodeon Cartoon Became One of the Most Powerful, Subversive Shows of 2014". Vanity Fair. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "Jeremy Zuckerman". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "The Track Team". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- Otterson, Joe; Otterson, Joe (2019-06-24). "'Scream' Series Moves From MTV to VH1 for July Debut". Variety. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- Horse Girl (2020) - IMDb, retrieved 2020-02-01
- "Our Mission". The Echo Society. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "Bios". The Echo Society. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- August 16, Ann Haskins on; Dance, 2017 in (2017-08-16). "Music Center Dances To Cahuenga Pass". Cultural Weekly. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "NOW Festival | REDCAT". web.archive.org. 2007-10-10. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "egantic (remixes), by ginormous". hymen records. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "Diamond Dave - David Lee Roth | Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "2019 DOC LA — Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival". docla. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
- Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness - IMDb, retrieved 2019-09-01
- "Jeremy Zuckerman & Benjamin Wynn to Participate in PlayFest | Film Music Reporter". Retrieved 2019-09-01.
- "BsoSpirit - Premios GoldSpirit - XIII Edición (2013)". web.archive.org. 2014-08-15. Retrieved 2019-09-01.