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Chad Cannon
12+ albums
SoundtrackClassicalcomposeramerican
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Chad Cannon is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who was born and raised in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City and is a product of the American West. Recent credits include the Obama-produced, Oscar-winning documentary American Factory, the Oscar-shortlisted Hidden Letters (co-composed with vocalist Leona Lewis), HBO's genre-bending true crime series, Mind Over Murder (directed by Nanfu Wang), and Sony PlayStation's Ghost of Tsushima (Iki Island Expansion). 'Fluent in Japanese, Cannon has a close working relationship with Joe Hisaishi, including doing arrangements for the globally-performed Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki. Chad got his start in film music working as an assistant orchestrator for Conrad Pope on scores by Howard Shore (The Hobbit trilogy) and Alexandre Desplat (Godzilla and The Secret Life of Pets franchise). He is a graduate of Harvard and Juilliard, was a 2016 Sundance Composing Labs Fellow, and is a current delegate for the US-Japan Leadership Program (USJLP). Official self-written bio: Born and raised in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains in Salt Lake City, Utah, I am a product of the American West. My recent work includes the score to the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary American Factory, HBO’s Mind Over Murder (directed by Nanfu Wang), and Sony PlayStation’s Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cut (Iki Island Expansion, co-scored with Bill Hemstapat). Other collaboratio
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Ghost of Tsushima: Music from Iki Island & Legends
American Factory (A Netflix Original Documentary Soundtrack)
Tokyo Cowboy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Paper Lanterns (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Ghost of Yōtei Legends (Original Soundtrack)
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Harbor from the Holocaust (Original Documentary Soundtrack)
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Qinghai: Our National Park (Original Documentary Soundtrack)
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Ghost of Tsushima: Music from Iki Island Legends
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CyberWork and the American Dream (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Devil's Tree: Rooted Evil (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Exposing Muybridge (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)