Jherek Bischoff
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Jherek Bischoff is an American composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. His credits include over a dozen albums as a solo artist or band member (The Dead Science, Parenthetical Girls, Xiu Xiu), over sixty albums as a musician, arranger, producer, or engineer (Angel Olsen, Regina Spektor, Kassa Overall), and music for symphony orchestra, opera, film, theater, and ballet ("Organ Trail", "The Ocean at the End of the Lane", "Andersen's Stories").
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-instrumental "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 old 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 six theater productions, including the award-winning "The Ocean at the End of the Lane", and his latest opera, "Kasimir and Karoline" for Staatsoper Hannover. Most recently, Bischoff has pivoted to film and television, with credits including "Organ Trail", "The Devil Makes Three", and "The Grave of St Oran."
Bischoff's prolific career includes collaborations with William Shatner, Neil Gaiman, David Byrne, and Kronos Quartet; commissions by The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Royal Conservatory, and St Ann's Warehouse; performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, BBC Orchestra, s t a r g a z e, and yMusic, and performances at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Glastonbury Festival, 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-instrumental "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 old 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 six theater productions, including the award-winning "The Ocean at the End of the Lane", and his latest opera, "Kasimir and Karoline" for Staatsoper Hannover. Most recently, Bischoff has pivoted to film and television, with credits including "Organ Trail", "The Devil Makes Three", and "The Grave of St Oran."
Bischoff's prolific career includes collaborations with William Shatner, Neil Gaiman, David Byrne, and Kronos Quartet; commissions by The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Royal Conservatory, and St Ann's Warehouse; performances by the National Symphony Orchestra, BBC Orchestra, s t a r g a z e, and yMusic, and performances at Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, Glastonbury Festival, and in Times Square.
