Roger Neill

Film & TV Composer

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Composer Roger Neill is a Harvard doctorate whose award-winning music catalog spans hundreds of television episodes, TV commercials, games, more than 20 major motion pictures and even an operetta. 

 For the Amazon Studios series Mozart in the Jungle, Roger acted as composer, music producer and consultant.  In 2016 MITJ won two Golden Globes and an Emmy, including the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series.  Amazon recently released the soundtrack album for Mozart in the Jungle, which features Roger's orchestral arrangement of Phoenix's "Lisztomania," the series' main title.

​Roger's recent feature films include Mike Birbiglia's critically acclaimed Don't Think Twice, which premiered at the 2016 SXSW Film Festival, and Mike Mill's upcoming 20th Century Woman, which will premiere as the centerpiece of the 2016 New York Film Festival.  Roger also scored Mill's 2010 Academy Award winning film, Beginners.  Other features include the documentary The Killer Within, featuring the renowned Kronos String Quartet, and Sofia Coppola's kaleidoscopic Marie-Antoinette.

 In television Roger is well known for his 13 seasons scoring the Fox prime-time animated series King of the Hill.  Currently Roger is music consultant for Chuck Lorre's comedy series, Mom.  Roger's other television credits include Chicago Hope, Michael Hayes and The Simple Life, and many others.

 As an arranger, orchestrator, conductor and collaborator, Roger has worked with a Who’s Who in the recording industry, including Air, Beck, John Legend, Kygo, Mellow, Spoon, David Sylvian, Jason Falkner, Natalie Merchant, Stereolab, Sondre Lerche and Stars of Track & Field.

 Roger is very active in the commercial world, scoring ad campaigns for Facebook, Subaru, Hummer, Axe and many others.  Roger has had the good fortune to collaborate with many distinguished commercial directors, including Roman Coppola, Mike Mills, Kathryn Bigelow, Rupert Saunders and Gus Van Sant.

 Roger is the recipient of many ASCAP and BMI awards, an Emmy for his work on King of the Hill, and an LA Weekly Theater Critics Musical of the Year Award for his operetta The Beastly Bombing.

 Roger has been active as teacher throughout his career, at UCLA Extension, Cal Poly Pomona, and as founding faculty of the Palomar Film Music Workshops.  Roger brings this impressive resumé of experience to offer students interested in refining their ‘picture sense’ as well as related business realities in the world of being a successful creator and musician.