Called “the quintessential modern composer” by the London Independent, Austin-based composer-bandleader-improviser Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs, and concert halls with collaborators across a multitude of disciplines.
Heard throughout the world in films, TV, stage, and radio, he recently scored Richard Linklater’s “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” with Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig, and Laurence Fishburne for Annapurna Pictures, an upcoming projected directed by and starring Katie Holmes, and “Happy Jail” for Netflix. His Creative Capital Award winning project, “Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance”, a bilingual cross-border opera has been staged in over a dozen cities in North America.
Reynolds leads the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio. His accolades include a Creative Capital Award, an Independent Music Award, two Frederick R. Loewe Music Theatre Awards, ten Austin Critics Table Awards, multiple Austin Chronicle Best Composer wins, and a B. Iden Payne Award. “MARFA: A Country & Western Big Band Suite” (Fall 2019) broke into the top 100 on the NACC radio charts along with a track premiere in Billboard. In 2020, Graham signed with London-based record label Fire Records and released his original score for Alfred Hitchcock’s silent classic, The Lodger. He recently collaborated with renowned choreographer Deborah Hay on Cullberg Ballet’s Horse, which premiered in September 2021 in Gothenburg, Sweden.