Jamey Guzman

Jamey Guzman is an award-winning composer for the stage, screen, and concert hall. A passionate storyteller dedicated to telling necessary underrepresented stories with experimental and innovative techniques, her music explores themes of identity, connection, and humanity. As the score producer for Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's Scoring for Visual Media department, she has served as assistant music editor for dozens of films, mentored Master's film composition students in their craft, and produced hours of cues from the booth. Jamey's work in film scoring was recognized with a 2024 Jon Vickers Scoring Award, and she was recently announced as the composer for upcoming film Pack for Film Independent.

As a theatrical composer, Jamey was recognized for her work in opera and musical theater with a 2025 OPERA America Discovery Grant, and will be producing telenovela-inspired, medical-drama-chamber-opera Open Heart Surgery over the next year. She has received major commissions from the Center for the Performing Arts, Really Spicy Opera, Opera Arlington, Strange Trace Opera, New Voices Opera, ENAEnsemble, Paradox Opera, SONIT, and the Sociedad de Música de Cámara de El Salvador. A performer's composer, her music has been championed by musicians across the country, including Nightingale Opera Theatre's Young Artist Program, Kansas City Opera's Come as You Are, and Sparks and Wiry Cries' Chicago and Bloomington SongSlams; her music has been heard on stages from Los Angeles to Madagascar to Paris to El Salvador. Also a passionate composition teacher, Jamey serves as faculty at the Jacobs Composition Academy, has taught composition through the Jupiter Opera Development Foundation and Cazadero Music Camp, and holds an Associate Instructor position in Indiana University's Music Scoring for Visual Media department.