CONTACT | JamesNewberryMusic@gmail.com
Representation - Natalie Baartz - Scorebird scorebird@gmail.com
Hello, my name is James Newberry. I have been a film composer for over 10 years. I started making music as a creative outlet to work with others and make weird sounds I hadn’t heard before. As a percussionist and performer of strings/ winds/ and even singing, I always like to record myself and my favorite players/friends. I’ve written works for film, television, video games, dance troupes, concert halls, ensembles of all types and for myself. Whatever hangs on the edge of weird but still moves people - that’s where I want to be.
Recent projects include ‘Is This Thing On?’ for Director, Bradley Cooper. The feature stars Will Arnett and Laura Dern. Other recent projects include ‘Barron's Cove’, starring Garrett Hedlund and directed by Evan Kelman; Elegance Bratton’s ‘Move Ya Body: The Birth of House’; HBO’s ‘Enigma’; ‘Row of Life’ and Suzannah Herbert’s ‘Natchez’. ‘Natchez’ won the Best Documentary Feature Award at the Tribeca Festival in June 2025. Birth+Carnage is a dance/visual performance piece I finished in 2025 that premiered in NYC in December of that year under the direction of Tim Richardson with choreography by Marla Phelan. I’m very proud of these works and I love working with these fantastic people.
I’ve also written additional music for numerous top TV Shows over the last decade, such as Apple TV+ series Presumed Innocent, Tokyo Vice for Max, Netflix’s Ozark, AMC’s Fear the Walking Dead and many more with my buddies Saunder Jurriaans and Danny Bensi.
I’m a classically trained percussionist and also perform clarinet, piano, hardware synthesizers, and experimental strings.
I currently live in LA, but am from Georgia, lived in Cleveland, NYC, and the Bay Area. My home is always with my wife Mia.