Featured Recordings


Featured Work


Biography

Jamie Thierman is a composer, orchestrator, a lover of music from around the world, and a born and bred Alaskan. She currently lives in Los Angeles, writing music for both concert and film, and orchestrating music for major movies and TV shows as part of the Tutti Music Partners team.

Sign up for our mailing list

Composition. Orchestration.

Latest From Ledger Lines

The Remains: a Transformation from Film Music to Concert Winds
with No Comments

As an orchestrator I spend much of my day immersed in film music, so the fact that film music essence is sneaking into my concert works isn’t surprising. But even still, I was nervous to compose a concert piece based … Read More

The Importance of Being Playable
with No Comments

I essentially ignored playability for the first half of my composition career. I have definitely spent many a performance of my compositions cringing at how bad it sounds, usually blaming the penurious rehearsal schedule. It wasn’t until a piece of … Read More

For the Love of Orchestration
with No Comments

I became an orchestrator by accident. It’s not exactly a job you find as an answer on high-school career quizzes. I hadn’t even heard of it until I was almost finished with my graduate studies, and trying to figure out … Read More

From Inception to Fruition, New Wind Ensemble Premiere
with No Comments

I had a phenomenal world premiere at Florida Atlantic University a few weekends ago. The piece performed was Aerial Navigation, a crazy, groovy, off-kilter, torpedo of a piece that was first written for Solo Trumpet and Brass Quintet back in…2012, … Read More

Atlantic Performance
with No Comments

Florida Atlantic University Wind Ensemble CBNDA Southern Division Conference at Northwestern State University Feb. 21, 2020

A Director’s Guide to Communicating with Composers
with No Comments

I’m working on a very beautiful and meaningful short film right now, and the director and I are currently in the Terminology Tango: that careful dance you do as you’re going back and forth with new revisions and new requests, … Read More