SamBishoff

Sonic exploration. Rooted in human performance.

Sam Bishoff is a composer for visual media, multi-instrumentalist, and music editor based in New York City. With a background in jazz performance, Sam brings a sense of improvisation and experimentation to his scores, exploring the intersection of live performance, electronic processing, and sound design. Sam's writing incorporates his many musical influences, borrowing elements from jazz, classical, funk, pop, and beyond. He frequently records on his own scores, including saxophone, flute, clarinet, and piano.

With composer Pat Irwin, he has contributed additional music for Dexter: Resurrection and Dexter: Original Sin (Showtime). He co-composed for Manhood (BBC) with Gil Talmi, which premiered at SXSW 2026 to critical acclaim. As a composer and supervising music editor at Konsonant Music + Post, he has worked on projects including Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer (Netflix), Ice Gold: From Worst To First (Peacock), Any Problem Is No Problem, Wild Wild Space (HBO), United States of Comedy (PBS), #1 Dad (iHeart), and the Emmy-nominated Grizzly 399: Queen of the Tetons (PBS).

He was the assistant score mixer on the Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane. Most recently, he composed the score for the upcoming soccer documentary Super Village, which explored the viral phenomenon of the rural soccer league Cun Chao. He has scored various shorts, ad spots, and his debut feature film Slaughter Beach won "Best Original Score" at the New Jersey Film Awards. In 2023, he assisted composer Jonathan Bepler on the Matthew Barney installation Secondary.

Sam received a Bachelor's Degree in Jazz Performance from Temple University and a Master's Degree in Media Scoring from Brooklyn College. He was chosen to participate in the 2021 Society of Composers & Lyricists Mentor Program, the Ghetto Film School’s 2022 Emerging Composers Program, and the 2023 ASCAP Columbia Film Scoring Workshop and was a finalist for the 2022 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award.