About.
Composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Turner is known for creating innovative and diverse music for the moving image and the stage. He is a two time EMMY® nominee, has won the Music + Sound Award, the AICP Award, an ASCAP Screen Music Award, an International Documentary Association Award, and has been listed in NPR Music’s Favorite Songs of the Year. Jeremy regularly writes film and television scores for Disney+, HBO Max, Netflix, and Hulu; simultaneously creating concert music and composing for collaborative installations. Recent works include the score for the upcoming MRC film Let's Have Kids!, directed by Adam Sztykiel; Shorebirds, a piece for solo violin premiered by Simone Porter at Lotusland in Montecito, California; and The Coast of Industry (2024), an art installation that recently opened at MASS MoCA. Other notable projects include composing and conducting the score to the Netflix original series Five Came Back, produced by Steven Spielberg and Scott Rudin, and collaborating with James Murphy on original music for the Broadway production of Harold Pinter’s Betrayal, directed by Mike Nichols.
Jeremy attended the Juilliard School and joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at the age of 21, joining the MET Chamber Ensemble in its inaugural year. He has participated in the music festivals of Aspen, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Seattle, La Jolla, Moab, Sarasota, Interlochen, and Music at Plush. In 2003, he was asked by soprano Renee Fleming to perform with her for the first concert at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. He has appeared as a cellist on Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with David Letterman, 30 Rock, Mtv Unplugged, and has performed with artists such as Paul McCartney, David Byrne, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, The National, Sufjan Stevens, My Morning Jacket, Phoebe Bridgers, Lupe Fiasco, She and Him, and Dirty Projectors. He has conducted twice at the LACMA Art + Film gala, has performed collaborations for Saint Laurent and Dolce & Gabbana, and conducted in New York's Central Park for Ralph Lauren's 50th Anniversary.
As a composer, his music has been heard around the world, from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House. He has written music for Chris Thile and James Ehnes, The Jack Quartet, yMusic Ensemble, Brooklyn Rider, Flux Quartet, as well as five installation pieces with the artist Chris Doyle. Jeremy is a former Sundance Fellow, serves on the Board of Directors of the Ojai Music Festival, and is a member of the Artistic Advisory Board at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.
Tim Nielsen is an award-winning Sound Designer, Supervising Sound Editor, and Re-Recording Mixer. His career has seen him work on some of the highest grossing films of all time including Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Moana, Finding Dory, Avatar, SOLO: A Star Wars Story, There Will Be Blood, and most recently Jurassic World Rebirth. In addition Tim has mixed several award winning documentaries including The Cave, The Territory, and the upcoming film Viktor.
After growing up in Minnesota, Tim moved to California to attend the School of Cinema and Television at USC. A year later, Tim was taken on as Skywalker Sound's first official intern, where he was mentored by seven time Oscar Winner Gary Rydstrom. Skywalker Sound has been his home ever since.
Tim has won multiple awards including six Motion Picture Sound Editor awards for films such as Moana, Avatar, and War Horse, and has been nominated for more than 20 MPSE, CAS and AMPS awards. As a teacher and guest lecturer, Tim has performed master classes throughout Europe and during the pandemic he led online courses that were attended by more than 2,000 people.
He is an avid sound effects recordist, and in 2020 gathered over 650 recordists in more than 60 countries to contribute recordings to a charity library that raised almost $100,000 for The Water Project, a charity that provides clean drinking water in Africa. He also invented the Universal Category System, now the industry standard for classifying Sound Effects used by companies around the world.