Jeremy Zuckerman is an Emmy Award-winning composer and musician whose diverse body of work includes music for film, television and dance; traditional Chinese music; electroacoustic music; and concert music.
Jeremy is best known for composing the music for the beloved series Avatar: The Last Airbender and its sequel The Legend of Korra. His unique scores have earned numerous accolades including two Emmy Award wins and several nominations; invitations to speak at Comic-Con; and the distinction of being a featured composer at the Playfest music festival in Malaga, Spain. Upon its release, his Legend of Korra soundtrack (via the Sony Legacy label) immediately hit #1 on Amazon, and quickly landed in the top 10 on both the iTunes and the Billboard soundtrack charts.
In 2024 Jeremy premiered an orchestral concert featuring the music of Avatar: The Last Airbender. The show grew into a successful tour with over 130 performances—mostly in North America—along with additional shows in Europe, Asia, and Australia. The tour is set to continue in 2025 with several dates throughout Europe, and more shows in Canada and Australia.
Other collaborative film projects include scores for Jeff Baena’s 2020 film Horsegirl (co-composed with Josiah Steinbrick), Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard from Earth (an Echo Society collaboration and the first film created for Sphere in Las Vegas), and Aubrey Plaza’s directorial debut A Quiet Illness (co-composed with Josiah Steinbrick).
Jeremy has written a series of chamber pieces for the Echo Society—of which he is a founding member—and was awarded a grant from the American Composer’s Forum. Jeremy’s concert music currently focuses on creating highly specific and controlled masses of sound using a combination of home-grown, semi-algorithmic processes and intuition. Using traditional orchestral instruments, these works explore complexity and transformation of sound and form, instead of the traditional melody/harmony paradigm.
Jeremy has worked with the modern dance choreographer Benjamin Levy on Everyone Intimate Alone Visibly in which extended vocal techniques performed and processed in real-time by Jeremy intersect with Levy’s choreography to form a complex gestural dialog. Jeremy's electroacoustic score for another of Levy’s pieces titled Khaos was commissioned by the Scottish Dance Theatre (the national dance company of Scotland). The soundtrack album is currently available.
Jeremy received his BA at the Berklee College of Music where he studied music under the framework of Jazz theory, and was taught computer music by Richard Boulanger. Jeremy continued his education at the California Institute of the Arts where he studied privately with electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick and earned his MFA in new media composition. Jeremy occasionally lectures at Calarts, Berklee, and Dartmouth. Topics include composing for film and tv, traditional Chinese instrumentation, and electroacoustic music (aka sonic art).
Jeremy’s latest computer music album Growtree Collaborations features a collaboration with a different composer on each piece.
Jeremy lives in Los Angeles with his wife, two kids, a mass-murderous cat, and two dogs—Fluffy and Ziggy Stardust.