British Composer
Jon Opstad (born 1983) is a British composer. His work spans music for film and television, contemporary dance, concert music and album projects. He has collaborated with other artists, such as Max Richter .[ 1] Opstad is classically trained, having studied music at Cambridge University , before graduating with an MA in film composition from the National Film and Television School. [ 2]
In television, Opstad is best known for his scores for dark dramas such as Netflix 's Bodies and Black Mirror . His score with Max Richter for Elisabeth Moss thriller The Veil was acclaimed by IndieWire as one of "The Best TV Scores of 2024".[ 3]
Opstad's 2014 contemporary dance score Ignis was nominated for a British Composer Award (since rebranded as Ivors Classical Awards ) for "Best Stage Work".[ 4] [ 5] Tracks from Ignis have been used extensively in other productions, with the composition "Ignis IV" featuring in the trailer for Hollywood feature film Ad Astra ,[ 6] [ 7] a trailer for Amazon Prime series The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power , and the drama series The Veil .[ 8] The track "Ignis I" was featured in the opening episode of Paramount drama series The Man Who Fell To Earth .[ 9]
In 2021, Opstad was featured as an answer to a question on the long-running British TV game show Mastermind , as part of a specialist round on Black Mirror . Opstad has been quoted on his approach to scoring the Black Mirror episodes White Bear and White Christmas in the official book on the series written by Charlie Brooker , Annabel Jones and Jason Arnopp , "Inside Black Mirror"[ 10]
In 2015 the WNYC radio show New Sounds , presented by John Schaefer , focussed an episode on Opstad's music. Opstad's music has also featured on BBC Radio 3 programmes Late Junction , In Tune and Unclassified [ 11] amongst others.
Title Album Details Still Picture Released: 2005 Label: New Canvas Records Formats: CD, digital Interpretations Released: 2007 Label: New Canvas Records Formats: CD, digital Ignis Released 2014 Label: New Canvas Records Format: digital Extensions: Music for Computer-Controlled Prepared Piano Released 2022 Label: Tip Top Recordings Formats: CD, digital
Title Single Details Blue Sky, White Clouds Released 2020 Label: Deutsche Grammophon Formats: vinyl (as part of Project XII 2020 album), digital
Title Album Details Black Mirror: White Bear (Original Television Soundtrack) Released: 2013 Label: self released Format: digital Black Mirror: White Christmas (Original Television Soundtrack) Released: 2014 Label: self released Format: digital Safe House Series 2 (Original Television Soundtrack) Released: 2017 Label: Manners McDade Format: digital The Woman In White (Original Television Soundtrack) Released: 2021 Label: Manners McDade Format: digital Surviving 9/11 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Released: 2021 Label: Manners McDade Format: digital The Feed (Original Television Soundtrack) Bodies (Soundtrack from the Netflix Series) The Veil (Original Soundtrack)
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