photo by Erika Seress
American composer, John Jennings Boyd, represents the vanguard of a new generation of composers equally adept at scoring with live orchestra, producing ambient soundscapes, and creating commercially-minded music across all forms of modern media.
With a passion for multiple genres, he has worked with major studios and indie filmmakers alike. John scored Warner Bros. animated features Mortal Kombat: Scorpion’s Revenge and Mortal Kombat: Battles of the Realms. Other studio projects include Universal's comedy How High 2 and the animated short Minion Scouts. Animated highlights include additional music for Sony's The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2 as well as Universal's Despicable Me 3 and Minions.
John has had the pleasure of teaming up with Oscar winning director Daniel Junge to score Lionsgate's A Lego Brickumentary and Being Evel. Other documentary scores also include: HBO Max’s 40 Years a Prisoner, History Channel's Game Changers: Inside the Video Game Wars, Fox's U.S. Open Epics: Tiger and Rocco. His television highlights include: HBO's “Ferrell Takes The Field, Hasbro’s Hanazuki: Full of Treasures, OWN’s Black Love, Robert Kirkman’s Secret History of Comics, NBC's Superstore, HBO’s Entourage, HBO’s Making It In America, and ABC's Mixology. No stranger to narrative drama, John has scored feature and short films that have garnered major awards and attention at prestigious film festivals (Sundance, Toronto, SXSW, etc) including Victoria Para Chino (dir. Cary Fukunaga), The Bravest, the Boldest (dir. Moon Molson), 1982 (dir. Tommy Oliver), and Kinyarwanda (dir. Alrick Brown).
In addition to scoring film and TV, John co-founded Soundcat Productions, a boutique music company with studios in NYC and LA. As creative director of Soundcat, he has written and produced music for many national and international ad campaigns including Apple, Canon, Facebook, Google, MasterCard, Ford, Verizon, and Kate Spade.
John holds a Bachelor's Degree in Music from The Florida State University School of Music, and a Masters Degree in Film Scoring from New York University.