Jeremy Zuckerman

Jeremy Zuckerman is an Emmy Award-winning American composer and musician. He co-founded The Track Team with Benjamin Wynn in 2004 and together they composed the score for both Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra; the duo also won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Sound Editing in Animation for their work on Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. He has also collaborated separately with musician David Lee Roth.
== Avatar: The Last Airbender credits ==
=== Music and sound design ===
61 episodes and 3 shorts
* "Bending Battle" (short)
* "Swamp Skiin' Throwdown" (short)
* "School Time Shipping" (short)
== The Legend of Korra credits ==
=== Composer ===
52 episodes
== Avatar: Braving the Elements credits ==
=== Guest ===
* 19. "Spotlight on Music with Jeremy Zuckerman and Hrishikesh Hirway"
* 51. "Secret Tunnel! with Joshua Hamilton and Jeremy Zuckerman"
* 108. "The Music of Avatar with Jeremy Zuckerman & Jeff Adams"
* 115.5. "Secrets from the Vault: Musical Musings & Trusty Treehouses"
== Avatar In Concert ==
=== Composer ===
* Avatar In Concert
== Selected other credits ==
=== Television work ===
* Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (composer and supervising music editor)
* Nature (composer)
* Scream: The TV Series (composer)
=== Filmography ===
* Stuntman (2018 - composer)
* Beartrek (2016 - composer)
* A Leading Man (2013 - conductor)
* Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (2010; short - composer)
* Green Arrow (2010; short - composer)
* DC Showcase: Jonah Hex (2010; short - composer)
* The Spectre (2010; short - composer)
* Just Peck (2009 - composer)
* He Lives (2007; short - composer)
* Waterborne (2005 - sounds effects editor)
* Radius (2004; short - composer)
== Biographical information ==
Born and raised in upstate rural New York, Zuckerman has been an avid guitar player since the age of thirteen and has had an interest in music since his early childhood. Later in his life, he got minor jobs in the music business such as shrink-wrapping CDs and eventually started working a gig at a mid-town Manhattan production studio. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music, Boston, with an interest in sound design with new technologies and subsequently traveled to the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). It was there he met Benjamin Wynn, with whom he would later co-found The Track Team, and he subsequently earned his master's degree in Composition New Media; Zuckerman has returned to CalArts on several occasions to lecture and workshop new ideas. Zuckerman can play many instruments and frequently plays guitar for an LA funk band named Cousin Junebug.
In 2008 he was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in a Television Animation for his work on the episode "Sozin's Comet, Part 4: Avatar Aang".
Zuckerman has confirmed that he will return for new projects with Avatar Studios, but will not be working for Netflix's of the original show.
Jeremy Zuckerman participated in the arrangement of the music of Avatar: The Last Airbender for a series of live concerts to begin in 2024.
== References ==
== External links ==
* Music Interview with the Track Team at AvatarSpirit.Net
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