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Jonathan Zalben creates compelling soundtracks for picture drawing on his decades-long experience in music, film, television, and media art. He studied violin and music composition at Juilliard Pre-College, Yale, and NYU.
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Beginning violin at age 9, he studied with Margaret Pardee, Jose Sanchez, Syoko Aki, and Kyung Yu. Chamber Music studies with Mark Steinberg, Lewis Kaplan, and Donald Lituchy, and he has played in orchestras under the baton of Eugene Becker, Eduardo Browne, Alondra de la Parra, Shin-ik Hahm, Tomasz Golka, and Gregory Singer. At Juilliard, he perfor...
Zalben has worked on many film and TV projects on both coasts including Amy Berg's Janis: Little Girl Blue (PBS), Ian Old's Burn Country (Orion Pictures / Samuel Goldwyn Films) starring James Franco, Melissa Leo, and Dominic Rains, Comedy Warriors (Showtime), Sunset Strip (Showtime), The Short Game (Netflix / Samuel Goldwyn Films), The Guest (Unive...
Zalben has created over a dozen multimedia installations and performances. Among these projects, he directed and produced a performance/installation called WTC at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 15 Nassau space in commemoration of the attacks on the World Trade Center. WTC is in the Artists Registry collection of the 9/11 Museum. Zalben's Ca...
Zalben is the founder and owner of First Frame Music a company for music supervision, licensing, and score, which has a diverse roster of artists and a catalog of over 3,000 musical works. You can find his contact info here.
He serves on the Steering Committee for The Society of Composers and Lyricists (The SCL) as well as the East Coast and Education Committees for The Guild of Music Supervisors (GMS). He has served as a judge in music and sound for the News and Doc Emmys for many years, and has also served on committees for the International Documentary Association (...
"Zalben has devised his own eloquent monument to 9/11...a cathartic moment of great beauty...ephemeral and haunting...The brilliance of Zalben's WTC is that it not only reminds us not to forget but also reflects on the nature of memory itself in its absolute fragility." - Les Hunter, offoffonline.com on WTC "Without my music supervisor, Jonathan Za...
Zalben played violin as a sideline musician on a Martin Scorsese picture He was a contestant on Cash Cab. Zalben patented a design on a muffler for lawn mowers and leaf blowers. He played violin with The Dirty Projectors. He went to Snoop Dogg's birthday party which doubled as the wrap for Hood of Horror.
Jonathan Zalben studied music composition and violin at NYU, Yale, and Juilliard Pre-College. He previously taught courses in creating music and sound for picture as well as interactive media at Yale, The New School, Bloomfield College, and York College (CUNY).
Disciplines: Composition, Media Scoring, Music Technology, Sonic Arts Media Scoring: Music for Film, TV, and Media.
Composer and Music Supervisor, Jonathan Zalben runs First Frame Music a company for music supervision, licensing, and score. Selected credits include: Oscar-nom.
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Oct 15, 2020 · Jonathan Zalben creates compelling soundtracks for pictures, drawing on his decades-long experience in music, film, television and media art. He studied violin and music composition at Juilliard Pre-College, Yale, and NYU.
