Geoff Zanelli

Emmy Award-winning composer Geoff Zanelli is a standout in the film and television scoring industry, garnering accolades and recognition for his diverse musical voice. Zanelli has composed for directors such as Gore Verbinski and Ridley Scott; writer/directors David Koepp, Peter Hedges and David Duchovny; producers Jerry Bruckheimer, Steven Spielberg, Adam Sandler and Jeffrey Katzenberg; as well as actor/producers Angelina Jolie and Tom Hanks. Zanelli scored the fifth installment of Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise and contributed to all four of the prior “Pirates of the Caribbean” films via his collaboration with Zimmer. Zanelli collaborated with Grammy-award winning Mark Ronson on the co-written score and songs to Lionsgate’s “Mortdecai” and Steve Martin and Edie Brickell to lend string arrangements to the Grammy-award winning album “Love Has Come For You,” and “So Familiar,” which dominated the Bluegrass charts. In 2006, Zanelli earned his first Emmy after scoring the original music for Steven Spielberg’s miniseries “Into The West,” the youngest composer ever to be awarded the ‘Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score)’ accolade. A few years later, Spielberg once again tapped Zanelli to score HBO’s “The Pacific,” which earned him his second Emmy nomination. Zanelli’s most recent works include scoring Adam Sandler's "Leo" and Jeff Celentano's "The Hill."