Jeremiah Bornfield is a composer whose work moves between concert music, film, theater, songs, advertising, and audio post-production. His music combines classical craft, cinematic instinct, and a long-standing interest in atmosphere, form, and emotional detail.
Bornfield began his career exploring expressionism, imitative polyphony, and new audio/visual forms, leading to classical commissions for virtuoso performers and ensembles in New York City, with works eventually heard at Carnegie Hall and Taipei National Theater. Over time, his practice expanded into music for picture, bringing together musicians, engineers, directors, editors, and producers to create original scores, songs, and sound-forward work for film, television, advertising, and the web.
Through Postsound Publishing, he represents a catalog of hundreds of original works, including music connected to a CLIO-nominated brand launch led by Havas, A/R New York, and Sibling Rivalry Studios. In addition to composition, Jeremiah has frequently assisted directors and editors by managing complete audio post-production packages, including score, dialogue cleanup, ADR, sound effects, and re-record mixing.
After scoring a number of short films, Jeremiah composed the original score for Kent Jones’s award-winning feature documentary Hitchcock/Truffaut for Cohen Media. That collaboration led to additional film work, including The Voyage, which screened at Cannes in 2016, and three more features scored during 2017–18. Among them was Diane, also directed by Kent Jones, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Narrative Feature, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.
Jeremiah received a master’s degree in composition from Hunter College and studied mixed chamber ensemble writing with Conrad Cummings at Juilliard. He was invited to participate in the Society of Composers & Lyricists Composer Mentor Program, the BMI Commercial Composition Workshop, and the ASCAP Film Scoring Program at NYU. His commissions and collaborations include work with the Grammy-nominated St. Petersburg String Quartet, Prague Philharmonic Players, Attacca Quartet, Sō Percussion, Mary Rowell, Nouveau Classical Project, Metropolis Opera, Gregg Smith Singers, Geoffrey Burleson, University of Kansas at Lawrence and Hunter College Opera. He has also had the great joy of hearing his music mixed to picture at Soundtrack Studios and Skywalker Sound.