Sean Callery
Sean Callery (born 1964) is an American musician and composer, best known for composing the music for the action/drama "24" and the Marvel adaptation "Jessica Jones". Other projects include the 2004 James Bond video game, "" and the television series "La Femme Nikita" and "Homeland". Most recently he composes the music for the series "Designated Survivor" and "Bull". Biography. Callery was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Bristol, Rhode Island. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, earning a degree in piano performance in 1987. In 1987, Callery moved to Los Angeles to work for  New England Digital, the creators of the Synclavier synthesizer. In 1990, he and John Farrar scored the NBC television film, "A Mom for Christmas". Working as a sound design on the series "" also earned him an Emmy nomination. In 1996, Callery was hired to compose the underscore for the USA Network series, "La Femme Nikita", which aired for five seasons between 1997 and 2001. Callery next again collaborated with Surnow on the television series "24" from 2001 to 2010. For his work on that series, he received three Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition For a Series (Dramatic Underscore), in  2003, 2006 and 2010. He also won the 2007 Film & TV Music Awards for Best Score for a Dramatic Television Program and Best Television Theme for his work on the series. In addition to his work on "24", Callery scored the music to the television series "Medium" from 2005 to 2010, all the episodes of "Shark", and composed the music for "Bones" beginning with its fourth season. In 2011 he scored the music to the miniseries "The Kennedys" and Kiefer Sutherland's webseries "The Confession". In December, 2011, he teamed up with executive producer Howard Gordon of "24" again, for  the television series "Homeland". In 2012, he composed the theme music for the CBS television show "Elementary". In 2014, he scored the music to the ninth season of "24", "", a special event-series, after a four-year hiatus. In 2015, he scored the music to Marvel's "Jessica Jones" on Netflix, for which he won the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Music, which brings his total Emmy wins up to four.