School of Music Visiting Artist
Composer Jonathan Thomas Miller writes music for TV and film that often has an experimental nature. Over the last 20 years, he has composed over 7000 pieces of music. Trained by many luminaries of modern classical music (M.F.A. CalArts), combined with the love of recording dating back to his teenage years, Jonathan has shaped the sound of TV scores with his often oblique and idiosyncratic take on music. In 2021, he was composer-in-residence at Colombia College in Chicago, where he taught graduate students in the Scoring for Media program; composed music for Life Below Zero, Life Below Zero Next Generation; wrote themes for Vice Media and Buzzr; and recorded an album of sound collages. Jonathan has also lectured on music at CalArts, Stanford, The University of Chicago, Cal Poly Pomona, Heidelberg College and Pomona College. Projects in 2022 include music for Life Below Zero and Life Below Zero Next Generation on National Geographic/Disney+, as well as a comedy feature. His personal musical passions include found sound, percussion, shoegaze and music from around the world. Originally from the farmlands of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Jonathan’s studio is in Highland Park, Los Angeles, California.