Jonathan Zalben creates compelling soundtracks for picture drawing on his decades-long experience in music, film, television, and media art. He studied violin and music composition at Juilliard Pre-College, Yale, and NYU. Zalben's media art has been viewed at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, MASS MoCa, Boston Public Library, Sony Wonder Technology Lab in New York City, and art galleries around the world.

He won an award for his media art collaboration, Compound Pilot, at SXSW. In 2023 he was nominated for a Guild of Music Supervisors Award for Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes directed by Peter Schnall for PBS. Zalben also music supervised Shut Up and Paint directed by Titus Kaphar and Alex Mallis which aired on PBS and was shortlisted for the 2023 Oscars in the Best Short Doc category, and he also music edited the MGM film Till directed by Chinonye Chukwu, which was shortlisted in the Best Original Song category. Film and TV credits include the Emmy-award winning series, Axios on HBO directed by Matthew O'Neill and Perri Peltz, the Oscar-nominated film Redemption (HBO) directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill, Alone (NY Times Op-Doc) directed by Garrett Bradley, which won the Sundance Jury Award and was shortlisted for an Oscar, There's Something Wrong With Aunt Diane (HBO) directed by Liz Garbus, On Pointe (Disney+) directed by Larissa Bills, Just Before I Go (Starz) directed by Courteney Cox, and No Way Jose (Sony Pictures) directed by Adam Goldberg.

Zalben is the founder and owner of First Frame Music, a company for music supervision, licensing, and score, which has a diverse roster of artists and a catalog of over 3,000 musical works. In addition, Zalben teaches music for picture and is the Director of Media Scoring at CUNY Brooklyn College's Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Steiner Studios. You can read more about him at www.jonathanzalben.com.

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