19 Facts About Jherek Bischoff

Jherek Bischoff was born on September 11,1979 and is an American composer, arranger, producer, and multi-instrumental performer based in Los Angeles.

Jherek Bischoff's credits include over seventy albums and compositions for orchestra, opera, film, theater, and ballet.

Jherek Bischoff has released over a dozen studio albums as a solo artist and band member and has credits as a musician, arranger, producer or engineer on over sixty albums.

Jherek Bischoff has written several orchestral commissions for the likes of Kronos Quartet and the Pacific Northwest Ballet, and renowned orchestras, including the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra, have performed his work.

Jherek Bischoff has written scores for five plays, including the Royal National Theatre's production of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane and an opera, Andersen's Erzahlungen, for Theatre Basel.

Jherek Bischoff has written or performed on scores for television and film, including Exhibiting Forgiveness, Organ Trail, The Devil Makes Three, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, Glow, and Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp.

Jherek Bischoff spent his early years on the boat and when he was 14 years old, the family departed on a two-year sailing trip to Central America, through the Panama Canal and into the Caribbean.

The family eventually returned to their home on Bainbridge Island, Washington, where Jherek Bischoff learned to play a wide variety of instruments.

Jherek Bischoff has some fluency on a number of woodwinds, brass and stringed instruments.

Jherek Bischoff first emerged as a musician in the first decade of the 2000s.

Jherek Bischoff was a member and collaborator with Parenthetical Girls, Xiu Xiu, Degenerate Art Ensemble, and The Dead Science.

Jherek Bischoff gained attention as a solo artist upon the 2012 release of Composed and a related instrumental album Scores: Composed Instrumentals.

Jherek Bischoff then orchestrated, engineered, and mastered the album, achieving an orchestral sound at a low cost by recording the instrumentalists one at a time using a single microphone and a laptop computer recording set-up.

Jherek Bischoff was interviewed by Terry Gross for her NPR show Fresh Air, where he spoke largely about his unique childhood growing up on a sailboat, and the unconventional process by which he recorded his album Composed.

In 2016, Jherek Bischoff released Cistern, an ambient orchestral album inspired by time he spent in an empty two million gallon underground water tank under Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington.

Jherek Bischoff recorded the album with the New York-based Contemporaneous ensemble at Future-Past in Hudson, NY, a recording studio housed in an historic 19th-century church.

Jherek Bischoff "is known for pushing the limits of orchestral music".

Jherek Bischoff was a finalist for The Stranger's Music Genius Award in 2013 and was named Seattle's Best Collaborator by the Seattle Weekly in 2014.

Jherek Bischoff was nominated for The Stage Debut Awards 2020 in the Best Composer or Lyricist category for his score for The Ocean at the End of the Lane.