Education
He studied music at Street Catharine"s College, Cambridge, and film composition at the National Film and Television School.
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Jon Opstad
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Career
His film and television work includes scoring two episodes of Charlie Brooker’s critically acclaimed dystopian television drama Black Mirror, including the 2014 feature-length special White Christmas, starring Jon Hamm, Rafe Spall and Oona Chaplin. Other scores include the Channel 4 dramas Cyber Bully and Blackout, the ‘Pals’ episode of British Broadcasting Corporation Three drama Our World War and the award-winning documentary feature film A World Not Ours, directed by Mahdi Fleifel. He was the co-composer (with Sheridan Tongue) on several episodes of series 16 of British Broadcasting Corporation One crime drama Silent Witness.
Opstad has worked with a number of other film and television composers, including Martin Phipps, Sheridan Tongue, Jocelyn Pook, Max Richter, Ruth Barrett and Richard Thomas, contributing to a range of projects.
Opstad’s music has been broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 3 on a number of occasions, including on the programmes Late Junction and In Tune. He is based in London.
