Jon Opstad

Jon Opstad is a London-based composer, working across film, television, contemporary dance, concert music and album projects. His music often combines contemporary classical elements with electronics, merging acoustic instrumentation with both modern and vintage electronic instruments and techniques.

Some of Jon’s notable scoring work includes the hit Netflix drama series Bodies, starring Stephen Graham; the 6-part Elisabeth Moss thriller The Veil for FX/Disney Plus (incorporating themes by composer Max Richter, who recommended Jon to Elisabeth Moss for the project); and two separate episodes of acclaimed dystopian drama Black Mirror (White Bear and the feature-length special White Christmas starring Jon Hamm). From 2018 to 2025, Jon was the composer for the major Ubisoft video game Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege.

Other scores include BBC period drama The Woman In White; 10-part Amazon Prime dystopian sci-fi drama The Feed, starring David Thewlis; two seasons of crime thriller We Hunt Together; powerful BBC feature documentary Surviving 9/11; hit Netflix documentary series Trainwreck: Woodstock ’99; the second series of ITV thriller Safe House; 5-part BBC thriller Thirteen, starring Jodie Comer; the acclaimed BAFTA-winning Channel 4 docudrama The Murder Detectives; BAFTA-winning BBC single drama Don’t Take My Baby from writer Jack Thorne; BAFTA-nominated TV movie Cyberbully; Channel 4’s The Watchman; and the Savile episode of Louis Theroux’s hard-hitting documentary series for BBC Two.

Jon was nominated for Music & Sound Awards three years in a row in 2022, 2023 and 2024, for his scores for Surviving 9/11, Merkel and title music for Bodies respectively.

Jon studied music at Cambridge University and film music at the National Film & Television School. Jon combines his classical music education with extensive knowledge and experience of other areas of music including electronic music and jazz. He is highly experienced in the use of analogue synthesisers and his London studio includes an extensive collection of vintage instruments.

Jon’s composition “Blue Sky, White Clouds”, for string quintet and piano, was released as a single on Deutsche Grammophon in 2020. In 2022 he released the album Extensions: Music for Computer-Controlled Prepared Piano. Jon was nominated for a British Composer Award (now Ivors Classical Award) in 2014, in the Stage Works category, for his score for contemporary dance work Ignis, combining solo violin with electronics. Radio broadcasts of his music include BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, In Tune and Unclassified programmes, Classic FM, and New Sounds on New York radio station WNYC, for which Jon was interviewed for an episode discussing his music in 2015.

TV

‍Deadpoint (2026-)
Studio: Clerkenwell Films
Producer: Adam Knopf
Director: Laura Scrivano

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‍The Veil (2024)
Studio: FX / Disney
Producers: Elisabeth Moss, Denise Di Novi, Adrian Kelly, Steven Knight
Director: Daina Reid, Damon Thomas

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‍BODIES (2023)
Studio: Moonage Pictures / Netflix
Producers: Susie Liggat, Will Gould, Marco Kreuzpaintner, Paul Tomalin
Directors: Marco Kreuzpaintner, Haolu Wang

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‍Trainwreck: Woodstock 99’ (2022)
Studio: BBH Entertainment/ Netflix
Producers: Cassandra Hamar Thornton, Sasha Kosminsky
Director: Jamie Crawford

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‍We Hunt Together (2020-2022)
Studio: BBC Studios
Producers: Lisa Osborne, Anne Pivcevic, Martin Rakusen, Philippa Collie Cousins, Alexander Lamb
Directors: Jon Jones, Carl Tibbetts, Rebecca Rycroft, Jonathan Teplitzky

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‍Surviving 9/11 (2021)
Studio: BBC Studios
Producers: Sarah Foudy, Cheryl Jockey, Saskia Rusher
Director: Arthur Cary

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‍The Feed (2019)
Studio: Amazon Studios
Producers: Simon Lewis
Director: Tinge Krishnan, Misha Manson-Smith, Jill Robertson, Colin Teague, Carl Ribbetts

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‍The Woman in White (2018)
Studio: Origin Pictures
Producers: Sarah Curtis
Director: Carl Tibbetts

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‍Safe House (2017)
Studio: Eleventh Hour Films
Producers: Andrew Benson
Director: Marc Evans

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‍American Justice (2017)
Studio: Minnow Films
Producers: Gaby Aung, Anna Ryder
Director: Arthur Cary, Jonathan Taylor

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‍Louis Theroux: Savile (2016)
Studio: BBC Studios
Producers: Arthur Cary
Director: Arthur Cary

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‍Thirteen (2016)
Studio: BBC Drama Productions
Producers: Hugh Warren, Joseph Bell, Elizabeth Kilgarriff
Director: Vanessa Caswill, China Moo-Young

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‍Black Mirror (2013-2014)
Studio: Zeppotron
Producers: Charlie Brooker, Barney Reisz
Director: Carl Tibbetts

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FILM‍

Cecil (2026)
Studio: Arrow Pictures
Producer: John Smithson
Director: Arthur Cary

‍Merkel (2022)
Studio: LOOKSfilm
Producers: Sigrid Dyekjær, Lizzie Gillett, Sonja Henrici, Eva Weber
Director: Eva Weber