Jeffrey Swingle
- Composer
- Actor
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.