Jeffrey Swingle

Jeff Swingle is an award-winning composer (Best Music: Biola Film Festival, 2006) who has written scores for over 25 independent and student films. His most recent projects include the TV show "The Black Dawn," produced by New Renaissance Pictures as well as the independent film "No Way Out" directed by Michal Shipman. He co-founded the Film Music Guild with president Dave Martina, which held their first conference in 2009 that featured panels hosted by over 10 prominent industry vets. In addition to composing, Jeff is always busy building his resume as a professional arranger, orchestrator, copyist/transcriber, recording technician, and session artist (vocals, violin, piano). Jeff has been involved in the music industry most of his life. Born and raised near Seattle, Washington, he was a member of the prestigious "Northwest Boychoir," a young vocal ensemble that has been featured in numerous soundtracks for both film and videogames, and in high school he was accepted into the "Composer's Workshop" with the Seattle Symphony, a competitive workshop directed by composer-in-residence Samuel Jones. Jeff moved to California to obtain his bachelor's in Music Composition from Biola University where he studied with composer Neil Argo (The New Mission: Impossible / Wild America / Beverly Hills 90210), orchestrator Mike Watts (Iron Man 2 / Evan Almighty / Sin City), and independent of the school studied with composer Christopher Young (Spiderman 3 / The Grudge / Ghost Rider). Jeff is already heavily involved with the independent and student film industry, but he also has credits in writing music for most forms of media, including the commercial, online, and live venues. Jeff is a proud member of ASCAP.