Jeff Atmajian
Conductor

Jeff Atmajian

 

Biography

Born and Raised in Fresno, Ca Jeff began classical piano lessons at the age of 8 and then at 15 he began additional study of Traditional Jazz Piano and Progressive (Modern) Jazz Piano. 3 Teachers!

Jeff began writing music at the age of 14 and then received a composition degree at the California State University of Fresno. It was at this point that his love for symphonic and chamber music began to flourish. During these years he played piano for vocal groups and ballet classes, local theatre productions and the University Jazz band. In 1984 he was accepted into the first year of a special studies program at USC for film music. He moved to Los Angeles (Glendale) and supported himself by doing music copying, arranging, playing for dance classes and as pianist for two churches.

In 1986 he met English Orchestrator Christopher Palmer at a film scoring session in Los Angeles and from that contact came the start of what would be a dual life of living and working in LA and London.

He has had the pleasure of working on many projects through which he has met Andre Previn, Neville Marriner, Christopher Plummer, Richard Attenborough, Al Pacino, Rob Reiner, Nora Ephron, Angelina Jolie and many other noted names in the classical and film world. He has had a long association as orchestrator for many composers including George Fenton, Marc Shaiman, James Newton Howard, Rachel Portman and Gabriel Yared.

Jeff has worked on over 200 films as orchestrator and often conducts as well. Some notable titles are: “Groundhog Day”, “The American President”, “Chocolat”, “The Sixth Sense”, “The Dark Knight”, “Mary Poppins Returns”, and “Joker”

Jeff divides his life between his homes in Venice Beach and London.