Peter Nashel is an American composer. He has composed scores for a number of films and television series including, I, Tonya, Marco Polo, and Totally Under Control. He is the founder and principal of the music production company, duotone audio group.
Early life and education Nashel was born and grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He studied at both the Tanglewood Institute in Boston and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, before moving on to Wesleyan University in Connecticut. At Wesleyan, he studied under Bill Barron and graduated in 1988.
Career Nashel has worked on numerous film and television scores. In 2001, he earned his first screen credit as composer for his work on the Sundance award-winning feature film, The Deep End, starring Tilda Swinton. In the ensuing years, he composed the music for several features including Bee Season, the 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche, The Night Listener (2006), based on Armistead Maupin’s novel of the same name and starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette, the academy-award winning documentary film No End in Sight (2007) and the 2009 thriller Carriers. More recently, he scored the 2017 Oscar-winning black comedy, I, Tonya directed by Craig Gillespie and Book Club (2018), starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candace Bergen.
He has also worked on numerous television and documentary projects. He composed scores for the TV series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009), Rubicon (2010), Lie to Me (2010–2011), Marco Polo (2014–2016), Mike (2022) and Alaska Daily (2022), among others. His documentary work includes Freakonomics (2010), Totally Under Control (2020), The Crime of the Century (2021) and Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker.
Selected filmography As Composer YearTitle Note 2001 The Deep End Feature film 2002 The Trials of Henry Kissinger Documentary film 2005 Bee Season Feature film2006 The Night Listener Feature film Wedding Daze Feature film 2006–2012 Iconoclasts Docuseries 2007 No End in Sight Documentary film 2007–2009 Dirty Sexy Money 23 Episodes 2008 New York, I Love You Feature film 2008–2009 Life on Mars 17 Episodes2009 Carriers Feature film Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer Documentary film2010 Freakonomics Documentary film Rubicon 12 Episodes 2010–2011 Lie to Me 13 Episodes 2012 Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream Documentary film 2013 The Trials of Cate McCall Feature film 2014 Dukhtar Feature film 2014–2016 Marco Polo 20 Episodes 2015 Younger 12 Episodes 2016–2017 Incorporated 10 Episodes 2017 I, Tonya Feature film2018 Nigerian Prince Feature film Book Club Feature film 2019 30 for 30 : Qualified Documentary film2020 The Innocence Files Docuseries Totally Under Control Documentary film 2021 The Crime of the Century Documentary film 2022 Mike 8 Episodes 2022 The Magic of Passion Short film 2022–2023 Alaska Daily 11 Episodes 2023 Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker 2 Episodes
Awards and nominations YearResultAwardCategoryWorkRef.2019 WonBMI Film & TV AwardsFilm MusicBook Club2020 NominatedCritics' Choice Documentary AwardsBest ScoreTotally Under Control
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