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SAM BISHOFF

Composer for Film & Media     Multi-Instrumentalist

Sam Bishoff is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. He is a composer and supervising music editor at Konsonant Music + Post having worked with Gil Talmi and Andrew Gross on projects such as Wild Wild Space (HBO), United States of Comedy (PBS Independent Lens), Any Problem is No Problem, Grizzly 399: Queen of the Tetons, #1 Dad (iHeart), and as the assistant score mixer on the Oscar®-nominated documentary Sugarcane.

 

Sam has also worked under composer Pat Irwin, composing additional music for Dexter: Original Sin (Showtime). Since 2022, Sam has worked as the administrator for the NY Chapter of the Society of Composers & Lyricists. 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's writing incorporates his many musical influences, borrowing elements from jazz, classical, funk, pop, and beyond. His music often incorporates elements of improvisation. In addition to saxophone, Sam also plays flute, clarinet, and piano, and often records himself in his own scores.

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.

When not composing or performing, Sam loves to cook, go camping and hiking, and is an avid listener of many podcasts.

 

 

 

Photo by Luisa Madrid @venture4peace

https://www.luisamadrid.photography

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REELS

CREDITS

DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN (2024)

Paramount + / Showtime

SHOWRUNNER: Clyde Phillips

DIRECTORS: Michael Lehmann, Monica Raymund

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Pat Irwin

ADDITIONAL MUSIC: Sam Bishoff, Kyle Acheson

 

ANY PROBLEM IS NO PROBLEM (2024)

DIRECTORS: Alyssa Fedele, Zachary Fink

PRODUCERS: Kate Mclean, Robin Kopp

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Gil Talmi

ADDITIONAL MUSIC: Sam Bishoff, Tom Zylbersztein

 

UNITED STATES OF COMEDY (2024)

PBS Independent Lens

DIRECTOR: Habib Yazdi

PRODUCER: Jackie Aude

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sam Bishoff, Gil Talmi, Andrew Gross

 

#1 DAD (2024)

Radio Point, Big Money Players Network, iHeartPodcasts

WRITTEN BY: Gary Vider, Adam Lowitt

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Gary Vider, Adam Lowitt, Alex Bach, and Daniel Powell

PRODUCERS: Bernie Kaminski

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Andrew Gross, Sam Bishoff

 

STRAWBERRIES (2023)

DIRECTOR: Carol Beaugard

PRODUCERS: Carol Beaugard, Amy Andersson, Daniel Kreizberg

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sam Bishoff 

 

TWO DAYS BEFORE TOMORROW (2023)

DIRECTOR: Peixuan Wang

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sam Bishoff

 

FEED ME (2023)

DIRECTOR: Caitlin Ferrell

PRODUCER: Tyler St. Pierre

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sam Bishoff

 

HER SCARS OF GOLD (2022)

DIRECTOR: Michael David Ross

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sam Bishoff

 

SLAUGHTER BEACH (2022)

Clockout Films

DIRECTOR: Daniel C. Davis

PRODUCERS: Jim Cannatelli, Daniel C. Davis, James Brett Taylor

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Sam Bishoff

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