Jherek Bischoff
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Jherek Bischoff is an American composer, songwriter, arranger, producer, music director, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. His credits include over a dozen albums as a solo artist or band member (Shudder To Think, The Dead Science, Parenthetical Girls), over sixty albums as a songwriter, producer, arranger, musician, or engineer (Andra Day, Regina Spektor, David Byrne), and music for film, symphony orchestra, opera, theater, and ballet (So Fragile, So Blue; Exhibiting Forgiveness; The Ocean at the End of the Lane).
Bischoff began his musical career as a member of alt-rock and experimental bands and taught himself to record, produce, arrange, and orchestrate. In 2012, he ventured out as a composer and solo artist, and with the release of two critically-acclaimed albums -- the orchestral-pop Composed and the ambient-orchestral Cistern -- Bischoff was hailed a "polymath" (The New York Times), a "visionary" (SPIN), a "formidable force in orchestral music" (NPR), and quickly became an in-demand composer and collaborator.
With a deep love of classic Hollywood movie soundtracks, Bischoff's progression as a composer for stage and screen comes naturally. Since his first musical score in 2014 (Johnny Breitwieser for Schauspielhaus Vienna), he has scored another eight theater productions, including the National Theatre award-winning The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and the Staatstheater Hanover award-winning Kasimir und Karoline. Most recently, Bischoff has pivoted to film and television, with credits including Exhibiting Forgiveness, Small Town Universe, and Organ Trail.
Bischoff's prolific career includes collaborations with William Shatner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Kronos Quartet; commissions by The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and St Ann's Warehouse; performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony, and performances at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and in Times Square.
Bischoff began his musical career as a member of alt-rock and experimental bands and taught himself to record, produce, arrange, and orchestrate. In 2012, he ventured out as a composer and solo artist, and with the release of two critically-acclaimed albums -- the orchestral-pop Composed and the ambient-orchestral Cistern -- Bischoff was hailed a "polymath" (The New York Times), a "visionary" (SPIN), a "formidable force in orchestral music" (NPR), and quickly became an in-demand composer and collaborator.
With a deep love of classic Hollywood movie soundtracks, Bischoff's progression as a composer for stage and screen comes naturally. Since his first musical score in 2014 (Johnny Breitwieser for Schauspielhaus Vienna), he has scored another eight theater productions, including the National Theatre award-winning The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and the Staatstheater Hanover award-winning Kasimir und Karoline. Most recently, Bischoff has pivoted to film and television, with credits including Exhibiting Forgiveness, Small Town Universe, and Organ Trail.
Bischoff's prolific career includes collaborations with William Shatner, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Kronos Quartet; commissions by The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and St Ann's Warehouse; performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and San Francisco Symphony, and performances at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and in Times Square.
