Jeremy Zuckerman


Jeremy Zuckerman is an American composer of concert music, film and television music, music for modern dance, and experimental music. He is best known as the composer for the animated series and its sequel series The Legend of Korra.

Background

At age five, Zuckerman began learning piano with his mother as his teacher. As a teenager and into his early 20s, he played guitar and synthesizer in heavy metal and coldwave bands. Zuckerman studied jazz and computer music at the Berklee College of Music, where he earned a bachelor's degree. 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.

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. Zuckerman created the music for the critically acclaimed television series,, which won a Peabody Award in 2008. Zuckerman also composed the music for the sequel series, The Legend of Korra, and is set to compose the score for Netflix's upcoming live-action Avatar series. Zuckerman's music is also featured in DC's,,, and.
Together, Zuckerman and Wynn created the music for the feature films Just Peck and A Leading Man, and the Nickelodeon TV series.
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.
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 and. Other documentaries include Beartrek, Stuntman, and This Little Land of Mines.
Most recently Zuckerman, along with Josiah Steinbrick, composed the score for the new Jeff Baena film Horse Girl.

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. The Echo Society's other founding members include composers Brendan Angelides, Judson Crane, Nathan Johnson, Rob Simonsen, Joseph Trapanese, and Benjamin Wynn.
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.”

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.” He also worked with Levy on Khaos, which was commissioned by the Scottish Dance Theatre. 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.

Theatre

Zuckerman composed the music to playwright Juli Crockett's theatre pieces Juli Crockett#%5Bor%2C%20the%20whale%5D|, 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 Fest at REDCAT.

Discography