Rob Simonsen, composer and solo artist, co-founded the innovative composer collective, The Echo Society. Introduced to music by his grandmother, he honed his craft in jazz piano and music during college. Gaining early recognition for scoring the indie film Westender, he soon was mentored by Mychael Danna and has since crafted scores for directors such as Darren Aronofsky, Shawn Levy, Jason Reitman, and The Duffer Bros. His work graces movies like The Whale, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Foxcatcher, and (500) Days of Summer, drawing accolades from leading publications.

Beyond films, his compositions have amplified brands like Apple, Nike, and Coca-Cola. In 2013, he ignited The Echo Society's vision to merge music and visual art in unique LA performances. His 2019 solo album, "Reveries" on Sony Masterworks, encapsulates introspective melodies that echo memories and dreams.

Throughout his evolving journey, Simonsen magnifies the deep resonance of music, spotlighting its transformative power over the human spirit.

Rob Simonsen

Benjamin Wynn is an Emmy Award winning American composer, sound designer and electronic music producer.

A graduate of The California Institute of the Arts, Wynn has released 5 albums under the Deru moniker, scored television, film, and dance. Wynn’s latest projects straddle the line between music, sculpture, and visual art.

Wynn collaborated with British composer Joby Talbot on the score to Wayne McGregor’s ballet, Genus, based on Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet. The ballet premiered at the Palais Garnier in October 2007 and was featured in the 2009 documentary, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet.

Out of CalArts he co-formed a music and sound design company called The Track Team along with Jeremy Zuckerman. Together they provide music and sound on numerous projects, including Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra for Nickelodeon. They won an Emmy Award for Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness in 2012, and another in 2015.

Wynn is a founding member and Creative Director of The Echo Society, a Los Angeles based composer collective and non-profit organization that premiers new orchestral works in singular, one-night-only events.

Benjamin Wynn

‘Part musician, part magician.’ - NPR’s Bob Boilen
“Electrifyingly enveloping…mind-melting invention here.” – BBC

Angelides has traced his own path of experimental sound for the past two decades, as both a solo artist and collaborator, conjuring releases under his former moniker ‘ESKMO’ with labels Ninja Tune, Interscope, Warp, Planet Mu and Apollo, as well as his own imprint, Ancestor. His 2023 album "Oxygen", inspired by the birth of his twins during the pandemic, features the London Contemporary Orchestra interwoven with electronic tapestries. He is a founding member of The Echo Society.

Alongside his own artistic output, Angelides has scored a variety of projects including Assassin's Creed Mirage (Ubisoft), seven seasons of Billions (Showtime), Echoes (Netflix), 13 Reasons Why (Netflix), Super Pumped (Showtime) the 2021 film Naked Singularity (Scott Free) and the collaborative score with The Echo Society for Darren Aronofsky’s Postcard From Earth.

Brendan Angelides

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and arranger Judson Crane serves up aural experiences across a wide variety of mediums and industries. Most recently, Judson provided the score for 6 episodes in season 1 of Peacock’s runaway #1 hit Poker Face, created by Rian Johnson and starring Natasha Lyonne with themes by Nathan Johnson. He is also known for his award winning work in advertising, providing original scores for trend setting clients such as Apple, Google, Nike, and Sony. Judson started Founder Music, a successful music library and licensing company serving global clients that seek refined music for their diverse projects.

He has provided additional music for feature films such as Love, Simon and Only the Brave as well as rich textures and performances for other features including Rian Johnson’s Netflix hit Glass Onion, and Kill the Messenger starring Jeremy Renner, for which he also provided arrangements. In 2019, Crane co-wrote a song featured multiple times in Todd Phillips’ blockbuster Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix. Crane, along with a group of likeminded composers, co-founded the Echo Society in 2013 as a community vehicle to challenge artistic and musical norms by transforming venues and showcasing new works that fulfill and inspire.

Judson Crane

Nathan Johnson is a multidisciplinary artist best known for his work as a film composer and director. His innovative music (acclaimed scores for the Knives Out movies, Nightmare Alley, Looper) and painstaking, hand-crafted music videos (Son Lux, Lucius) represent an unconventional approach to audio-visual storytelling rooted in a bold DIY aesthetic. He is highly regarded as a director’s composer, with a consistent knack for navigating disparate emotional paths while keeping the narrative arc at the forefront.

Nathan has given talks at universities around the world and has presented his work at the Hammer Museum, Adobe MAX, TED, and Apple. He is the recipient of numerous film and music awards, and his work has been featured extensively by NPR, Wired, the AV Club, and Rolling Stone. He lives in Los Angeles with the help of his friends.

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Nathan Johnson

Joseph Trapanese is a composer and music producer known for integrating his extensive classical training with his skill producing electronic music. He has crafted uniquely hybrid and inventive scores for a number of film and television projects, including Tron: Legacy (with Daft Punk), Oblivion (with M83), The Raid (with Mike Shinoda), Spiderhead, America the Beautiful, Prisoners of the Ghostland, Lady and the Tramp, Stuber, Arctic, Straight Outta Compton, The Divergent Series’ second and third installments Insurgent and Allegiant, The Witcher, Shadow and Bone, and interactive projects for Disney Animation, EA, Lucasfilm, and Ubisoft. He has also collaborated on songs for The Greatest Showman, Divergent, and Jason Bourne, and worked on albums and live events with musicians including Aloe Blacc, Amon Tobin, Dierks Bentley, Dr. Dre, The Glitch Mob, Haim, Halsey, Janelle Monae, Kelly Clarkson, Kendrick Lamar, M83, Moby, S. Carey, Sohn, and Zedd.

In 2022, he was commissioned by NASA to write the theme for the 2027 Mars Sample Return mission, and in 2021 he contributed production and arrangements (alongside Adam Blackstone) for the Super Bowl National Anthem. Trapanese's choral composition New Collective Consciousness, featured as the opening of Bjork's 2022 west coast concert tour, addresses the climate crisis through its intense harmonies and dissonances, striking choral textures, and unique text drawn from Greta Thunberg’s 2019 speech at the United Nations.

Trapanese has conducted the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, AUKSO Poland, and numerous festival and studio orchestras.

Joseph Trapanese

Jeremy Zuckerman is an Emmy Award-winning composer whose work covers a wide range, from music for film and television, to computer and experimental music.

Zuckerman studied jazz and computer music at the Berklee College of Music where he earned a Bachelor's degree. He furthered his studies at the California Institute of the Arts, earning a Master’s degree in modern composition, with an emphasis on computer music and sonic art.

Co-founding The Track Team in 2004 alongside Benjamin Wynn (aka Deru), Jeremy Zuckerman composed music for various television series, including "Avatar: The Last Airbender," which received critical acclaim and a Peabody Award. He continued his success with "The Legend of Korra" and the "Kung Fu Panda" series, collaborating with Wynn.

Zuckerman expanded his career as an independent composer, composing for films, documentaries, and television series such as the "Scream" television series, "Unsolved Mysteries," and “Nature." He also collaborated with composer Josiah Steinbrick on the Jeff Baena film ”Horse Girl" and Aubrey Plaza’s directorial debut "A Quiet Illness."

As a founding member of The Echo Society, Zuckerman focuses on creating chamber music that explores complexity and transformation of sound and form. He has also ventured into composing for modern dance, using the audio programming language SuperCollider to interact with dancers in real-time. Zuckerman has also composed the music for experimental theatrical works.

Jeremy Zuckerman currently resides in Los Angeles with his family and beasts of varying size, species, and disposition.

Jeremy Zuckerman