about:

Jay Wadley is a composer and music producer best known for his score for James Schamus' critically acclaimed directorial debut, Indignation (Lionsgate).  The score was featured in IndieWire's "10 Best Scores of 2016", received a Billboard premiere and received a concert performance by the Winnipeg Symphony for Soundtracks Live.  Recent projects include the Emmy nominated Raised in the System VICE Season 6 Premiere (HBO),  Rhys Ernst's (Transparent) directorial debut ADAM, Andrew Ahn’s(Spa Night) Driveways,  The OA (Netflix/Plan-B), Anu Valia's Sundance winning short Lucia, Before & After, Jacob LaMendola's Emmy nominated Long Shot (Netflix), and upcoming Tales of the City (Netflix/Universal) starring Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis and Ellen Page. His films have played at Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, Berlin, Rotterdam, Tribeca, BFI London, LA Film Festival, Montreal film festivals and others.

His arrangements and orchestrations for Rufus Wainwright, Mark Ronson and Calexico have been performed by The San Francisco Symphony, New York City Opera, The Royal Ballet and the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, among others. 

A graduate of the Yale School of Music (MM, AD), Jay has won two Charles Ives awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters as well as an ASCAP/SCI Student Composer Award for his concert music.  He's been commissioned by Carnegie Hall's Ensemble ACJW, the Yale Band, Williams College and The Nouveau Classical Project and been invited as a guest speaker on composition at Yale, The Peabody Institute, NYU, OCU and Kennesaw State University.