Short bio

Jeremy Borum is a film composer first, but he is also a producer, performer, and orchestrator. His credits include American Gangster, The Day The Earth Stood Still, and Disney's Enchanted. He has collaborated with artists like Alan Menken, Stewart Copeland, Bill Brown, and Tyler Bates. He has worked globally with major orchestras like the Dallas Symphony in the USA, Prague Philharmonic in Czech Republic, Canberra Symphony in Australia, Hollywood studio orchestras, and the Polish National Radio Symphony, performing in about 30 countries to crowds as large as 80,000. He has prepared manuscripts for many major music publishers and his manuscripts are available online and in print worldwide.

Jeremy is sponsored by FXPansion, the makers of BFD and other music software.

Verbose bio

As a composer and performer I love the collaborative process. I have always played the role of a supporting cast member, rarely in the spotlight, and I love to use my skills to draw attention to the focal point. Whether that focal point is the plot of a movie or the front man in a band I enjoy the way in which artistic visions meet and sometimes collide on the way towards art.

My main focus is as a film composer and orchestrator. Film directors and fellow composers both challenge me in new ways on every project, and I enjoy film related work immensely. Related to this I also arrange and orchestrate for bands, bringing a sophisticated orchestral sound into the pop/rock world. I have done this both for live tours and album recording projects, and I also work as a producer on occasion. I am a contributing composer for a few different production music libraries for film and television.

I also run a music engraving and music copyist business and have produced manuscripts for many major music publishers, performing groups, and scoring sessions. Music preparation is a detailed and critical part of the writing process, and I love the way a beautiful and graceful score looks on the page. I do transcriptions, arrangements, score and parts prep, librarian work, printing, or any other music prep tasks.

My recording studio is in Torrance, CA, where I write and produce most of my film scores. It can accommodate mid size recording sessions and has a 1906 grand piano, a 1943 Hammond organ, custom preamps, HD gear, sophisticated sampling capabilities, and all the other trappings of modern studios.

I earned degrees or certificates in music from University of California, Davis, the Australian National University in Canberra, Berklee College of Music in Boston, and I get ongoing piano coaching with Sarkis Baltaian at the Colburn School of Music.