Eric Jasper is a composer, arranger, and orchestrator living in Los Angeles, CA. Eric composes original music for film, television programs, music libraries, and live concert performances. Eric’s background allows him to write in a variety of genres, and he has developed a unique and effective musical voice. He has also worked alongside top Hollywood film composers, facilitating music production for feature films, network television shows, and large-scale orchestral and choral recordings.
Eric’s recent work includes high profile studio television programming and theatrical films. His arrangements are being incorporated into a summer blockbuster, a popular animated television show and a new musical. He has composed music for a series of documentaries aired on television, illuminating the positive impacts of music programs at elementary schools. Two of these films, which Eric co-produced and scored, received Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards in 2009 and 2010. He has also composed and arranged music for production music libraries, including a collection of orchestral compositions for Universal Music Publishing’s catalog.
Eric was born in Los Angeles, CA, minutes away from the scoring stages that would later inspire him to become a film composer. While attending Harvard-Westlake School for high school, he studied trumpet and composition. After receiving a Bachelors Degree in Music from Stanford University, Eric returned to Los Angeles to continue his pursuit of a career in film music, enrolling in the graduate Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at University of Southern California.
While earning a bachelor’s degree in music composition at Stanford University, Eric served as the principal trumpet of the Stanford Symphony on tours to Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre, and the Sorbonne in Paris. He also held the solo trumpet chair in the Stanford Jazz Orchestra, a group that gave him the opportunity to record an album at Skywalker Scoring Stage, and to perform live on stage with jazz luminaries such as Louie Bellson and Jon Faddis.
While attending graduate school at USC, Eric studied with leaders of Hollywood’s film scoring industry, including Chris Young, Pete Anthony, Brad Dechter, Jack Smalley, Joel McNeely, Blake Neely, and Richard Kraft. Over the course of the program at USC, he routinely recorded his compositions at L.A.’s best scoring stages including Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage, Paramount Stage M, and Capitol Records Studio A with Los Angeles’ finest studio musicians from the Local 47. He also collaborated with several student filmmakers at the USC School of Cinema and Television. At the conclusion of the USC program, Eric was awarded the Harry Warren Endowed Scholarship for Film Scoring. In 2010, Eric was selected as one of 12 participants in ASCAP’s annual TV and Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis. During the month-long program, Eric had the opportunity to meet leaders of LA’s film scoring industry and to record a 65 piece orchestra at Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage.
