Troy Herion

Biography:

Troy Herion is an Emmy-winning composer, editor, and producer. He has scored multiple award-winning films including 306 Hollywood, The Hottest August, Bulletproof, Born to Be, The Disrupted, The Dog, and Mountain Fire Personnel, which have premiered at major festivals including Sundance, Toronto, SXSW, HotDocs, Tribeca, MoMA, NYFF, and True/False. A classically trained multi-instrumentalist, Herion is a scholar of visual music (Princeton University PhD fellow). His primary focus is uniting contemporary music with visual arts through film, theater, dance, and concert music. Herion has collaborated extensively with choreographers and theater companies with performances at Carnegie Hall, The Academy of Music, and The Annenberg Center among others. Recent commissions include Archiva for The Pennsylvania Ballet and A Period of Animate Existence, for Pig Iron Theatre Co. featuring 100 performers including the Grammy-winning Crossing Choir, and a sentient halal cart. Concert works have been performed by So Percussion, JACK Quartet, American Composers Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Nash Ensemble of London, and Brentano Quartet. Herion composes and directs visual-music films. Baroque Suite and New York: A City Symphony have been called “marvelous” by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross and were featured on MTV and The New York Times. He also composes music for museums and companies including The Whitney, MoMA, The Getty, Google, and Lego among others.