About:

Originally from Edmond Oklahoma, Jay is a Brooklyn based composer of film, TV and concert Music.  His original compositions have won two Charles Ives awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters as well as an ASCAP/SCI Student Composer Award.  Since receiving a Masters in Music Composition from the Yale School of Music, he's been commissioned by Carnegie Hall's Ensemble ACJW, composed for films including James Schamus's That Film about Money as part of the Morgan Spurlock produced We the Economy.  His TV credits include VH1's Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story, Lie to Me(FOX), The Nine Lives of Chloe King (ABC Family) and orchestrations for Doctor Who (BBC).  His films have been in competition at festivals including Tribeca, Montreal, London and Rotterdam and in the Spring of 2015 he will be scoring Jeremy Teicher's new film Tracktown from the 2014 Sundance Labs.  His arrangements 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. 

THAT FILM ABOUT MONEY: Part 1 and 2 (Short)

DIRected By: JAMES SCHAMUS

TALL AS THE BAOBAB TREE (Feature)

DIRected By: JEREMY TEICHER

AFTER LULU:NBC's Chiller TV (Short)

DIRECTED BY: ZAO WANG

Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story (VH1) (Feature)

DIRected By: Charles Stone III

Lie To Me: Season 1 (TV Series)

Composer of Additional MusiC: Jay Wadley

Between Zero and one  (Short)

DIRECTED BY: Travis Satten

New iPHones are Like New girlfriends (Short)

DIRECTED BY: Vince PEone for College Humor

Hoverboard Lightsaber Portal Gun Fight

(Short Animation)

DIRECTED BY: Josh Ruben FOR COLLEGE HUMOR

Original Concert Music

     Jay RECEIVED THE 2011 CHARLES IVES FELLOWSHIP AWARD AND A 2007 CHARLES IVES SCHOLARSHIP FROM THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND LETTERS. HE STUDIED MUSIC COMPOSITION AT THE YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND AT OKLAHOMA CITY UNIVERSITY WITH PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AARON JAY KERNIS, MARTIN BRESNICK, EDWARD KNIGHT AND EZRA LADERMAN. HIS ORCHESTRATIONS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR ARTISTS SUCH AS 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. He's been commissioned by Carnegie Hall'S ACJW, The Nouveau Classical Project, the Yale College and WIlliams College Bands. 

IF I Spoke, I'd Be ScreaminG for FUll ORchestra

Varying Density for Trumpet, Viola, Percussion and Electronics 

Performed by: Carnegie Hall's Ensemble ACJW

Live performance of Frontera/Trigger by Calexico with Orchestra

Orchestration by: Jay Wadley

FLATT MAGAZINE

     JAY is THE MUSIC CURATOR AND LIVE EVENT MUSIC PRODUCER FOR FLATT MAGAZINE IN AN EFFORT TO EXPLORE THE CONVERGENCE OF MUSICAL GENRES.  HIS FEATURE ARTICLES INCLUDE NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS, EMPRESS OF, SUGAR VENDIL, OH LAND, LUCIUS AND MORGAN KIBBY OF M83. Live Performances have featured Raekwon, Q-tip, Samantha Ronson, DJ ELLE DEe, DJ TIMO Weiland, Wynter GOrdon at venues such as the National Arts Club and the Tribeca Grand. To Read Article Samples visit www.flattmag.com  or purchase at Barnes and Noble or on Itunes.