Jon Opstad

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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]

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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.

Filmography

Television

YearTitleStudioNotes
2013 Silent Witness (series 16) BBC co-composed with Sheridan Tongue
2013 Black Mirror (episode White Bear) Channel 4/Netflix
2014 Black Mirror (episode White Christmas) Channel 4/Netflix
2015 Cyberbully Channel 4
2016The Murder Detectives Channel 4
2016Louis Theroux: Savile BBC
2017 Safe House (season 2) ITV
2018 The Woman In White BBC
2019 The Feed Amazon Prime Video
2020 We Hunt Together BBC
2021Surviving 9/11 BBC
2022 We Hunt Together (season 2) BBC
2022 Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 Netflix
2023 Bodies Netflix
2024 The Veil FX/Hulu/Disney+ co-composed with Max Richter

Film

YearTitleDirectorNotes
2010 Uncle David David Hoyle co-composed with Richard Thomas
2012A World Not Ours Mahdi Fleifel
2014 Theeb Naji Abu Nowar (additional music)
2014 X+Y Morgan Matthews (additional music)
2022MerkelEva Weber

Games

YearTitleStudioNotes
2018-present Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege Ubisoft composer from Year 3 onwards of the game

Discography

Albums

TitleAlbum 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

Singles

TitleSingle Details
Blue Sky, White Clouds
  • Released 2020
  • Label: Deutsche Grammophon
  • Formats: vinyl (as part of Project XII 2020 album), digital

Soundtrack Albums

TitleAlbum 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)

References

  1. ↑ "FX's 'The Veil' to Feature Music by Max Richter & Jon Opstad | Film Music Reporter" . Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Composer Profile - Jon Opstad". First Artists Management. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  3. ↑ Shachat, Sarah (May 31, 2024). "The Best TV Scores of 2024 (So Far)". IndieWire. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  4. ↑ "Shortlist Unveiled for the 12th British Composer Awards – Seen and Heard International". seenandheard-international.com. Retrieved July 21, 2024.
  5. ↑ Hugill, Robert. "Shortlist announced for British Composer Awards" . Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  6. ↑ "Sync Story: Ad Astra/Jon Opstad | Media | Music Week". www.musicweek.com. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  7. ↑ "Manners McDade Composer Jon Opstad's Music Featured in Ad Astra Trailer | LBBOnline". lbbonline.com. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  8. ↑ "The Veil Soundtrack (2024). Music List From the Serie". May 16, 2024. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
  9. ↑ "The Man Who Fell to Earth" Hallo, Spaceboy (TV Episode 2022) - Soundtracks - IMDb . Retrieved July 31, 2024– via www.imdb.com.
  10. ↑ Brooker, Charlie; Jones, Annabel; Arnopp, Jason (2018). Inside black mirror. London: Ebury Press. ISBN   978-1-5291-0258-1.
  11. ↑ "Composer Profile - Jon Opstad". First Artists Management. Retrieved July 31, 2024.
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