Jack is a film composer based in Los Angeles, California, and is originally from Austin, Texas. He got his start in 2019 on HBO Max's "Looney Tunes Cartoons" assisting composer Carl Johnson. Since then, Jack has worked with composer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) contributing additional music for Holkenborg's high profile scores for films and video games, such as 2022's "Sonic the Hedgehog 2" and "Three Thousand Years of Longing", 2023's "Rebel Moon", and 2024's "Skull & Bones", "Mad Max: Furiosa", "Sonic the Hedgehog 3", and "Godzilla and Kong". In addition to his film work, Jack has worked with clients such as DAE Light Media, scoring their production logo used in film projects on platforms such as Netflix.

 

Beginning at age seven Jack showed an interest in writing music, starting by figuring out how to arrange and play his favorite film scores by ear on the piano - that curiosity and self-determination led to writing full orchestral works by high school, scoring student films by college, and now working in the film music industry in LA!

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When not writing music, Jack can be found searching for new places to take sunset photos for his Instagram story, making an iced coffee, or vehemently defending the Oxford comma.

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Jack attended the Film Scoring program at UCLA Extension, graduating in 2019. At UCLA he had the chance to have his music recorded at renowned scoring stages such as East West Studios and Sonic Fuel Studios, performed by some of LA's finest musicians. Prior to UCLA, Jack received his bachelor's degree in music composition as well as digital arts and media from The University of Texas at Austin. At the University of Texas Jack studied under Dr. Donald Grantham, Dr. Bruce Pennycook, Dr. Yevgeniy Sharlat, and Dr. Russell Podgorsek.

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During this time at UT Jack also wrote, edited, and arranged music for high school and collegiate marching bands around the country, and and as a result his music has been performed and commissioned by groups such as the Austin Symphony Orchestra, the University of Texas Wind Ensemble, the Texas Tech University Marching Band, numerous high school bands, choirs, and orchestras, and more.

 

While at UT Jack also studied saxophone with Dr. Stephen Page and Dr. Nathan Mertens as a member of the University of Texas Saxophone Studio. Not satisfied with pursuing music and film just through academia, while at UT he also was a member of the Longhorn Band, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (national men's music fraternity) and Delta Kappa Alpha (national co-ed professional cinematic fraternity) as a means of promoting music appreciation and cinema literacy.