JESI OKLEE NELSON

Jesi Nelson is a Los Angeles based composer in Film & Media, a conductor and an orchestrator. She won the film music community’s heart with her music that played over 2018 ’s Sundance Film Festival Trailer which opened every film at the festival.

She received her BFA in Music Composition and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Master of Fine Arts in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College. Upon her move to LA, she interned for Danny Elfman at Studio Della Morte, and soon after started assisting composer Michael Kramer, writing additional music for the Emmy nominated Disney/LucasFilm Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (TV Series) and Ninjago: The Legend of Spinjitzu, under his lead. Jesi was selected as one of 6 composers to participate in the highly competitive Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Labs at Skywalker Sound & ASCAP’s 2018 composer workshop. She was also the recipient of the Sundance Institute/Time Warner Foundation grant.

Jesi Nelson’s recent credits include the Disney+ Marvel docu-series MPower. Jesi was Lucasfilm’s first female BIPOC hired to write the music as lead composer on the VR & series Star Wars: Biomes and Star Wars: Vehicle Flythroughs. She also wrote the music for the feature film JINN, which Won the Special Jury Award at 2018 SXSW film festival & was released in USA theaters November 2018. Jesi’s worked with various A list composers & has written music for projects including the Emmy nominated Disney/LucasFilm Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures (TV Series) and Ninjago: The Legend of Spinjitzu. Other notable credits include Seasons 1 & 2 of Playmobil’s animated series Novelmore and the trailer music for Netflix’s Dota: Dragon’s Blood (TV Series).