Nami Melumad

Nami Melumad
Background information
Birth nameNaama Melumad
BornDecember 5, 1988 (1988-12-05) (age 36)
Ramat Gan, Israel
GenresFilm and television music
OccupationComposer

Naama "Nami" Melumad (Hebrew: נעמה (נמי) מלומד; born December 5, 1988) is an Israeli-Dutch film and television composer, conductor, flautist, and pianist based in Los Angeles.[1] Melumad is best known for her work on Paramount+'s series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Prodigy, Pixar's Dream Productions, Marvel's Thor: Love and Thunder, the HBO Max film An American Pickle, the Amazon TV series Absentia and the virtual reality video game Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.

Early life and career

Melumad was born and raised in Ramat Gan, Israel. She attended Blich High School where she majored in music theory, composition, flute performance, and chemistry. While at school, she began developing an interest in film scoring and also wrote the score for a children's theatre play. She played classical piano, flute, and guitar. Upon completing her military service in the Israel Defense Forces, Melumad was accepted directly to the sophomore year at the Cross-Disciplinary Composition Division of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and earned a Bachelor of Music in composition.[2] Among her teachers were Ioseb Bardanashvili, Michael Wolpe and Rafi Kadishzon. She composed mainly for documentary films, short-form narratives, commercials and stage.[3] moved to Los Angeles in 2014 to attend the graduate program in scoring for motion pictures and television (previously known as SMPTV) at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.[4]

Melumad has scored over 150 projects,[5] including feature films, TV series, short films and more. She is the first woman to score an episode in the Star Trek franchise, the Star Trek: Short Treks episode, "Q&A"[6] and won several awards for her work including the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for Passage (2018),[7] Best Short Score at Fimucité (2017)[8] out of 908 scores and The Marshall Hawkins Award-Best Original Score at Idyllwild Festival of Cinema in 2018.[9] Her score for Over the Wall earned her a nomination at the XIV Jerry Goldsmith Awards in 2019.

She was one of the 12 composers around the world to make the cut for the acclaimed ASCAP 2016 film scoring workshop with composer Richard Bellis.[10] In October 2016, her score to Mindgame was performed live-to-picture by the Helix Collective Ensemble, at the Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. In May 2017, her work New Zealand's Guide To Tessering was performed by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra.[11] As an orchestrator, she worked on The Little Mermaid and Logic's album Everybody.[12]

In 2019, Melumad created original music for Senior Love Triangle.[13]

Melumad is a bomember of Women in Film (Los Angeles), a board member[14] of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, a board member of ASMAC, and a voting member of the Television Academy.

Selected discography

As Composer

Awards and nominations

Year Result Award Category Work
2024 Nominated The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) Awards Outstanding Original Title Sequence for a Television Production Dream Productions
2023 Won The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL) Awards David Raksin Award for Emerging Talent Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
2023 Nominated Children's and Family Emmy Awards Outstanding Sound Editing and Sound Mixing for an Animated Program (As Music Editor) Star Trek: Prodigy
2022 Nominated HMMA Score – Sci-Fi Film Thor: Love and Thunder
2021 Won BMI Film & TV Awards BMI Film Music Award- Film Festival Short Colette
2020 Nominated International Film Music Critics Association Award Breakthrough Composer of the Year
2020 Nominated International Film Music Critics Association Award Best Original Score for a Comedy Film An American Pickle
2020 Won International Film Music Critics Association Award Best Original Score for a Video Game or Interactive Media Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond
2019 Nominated Jerry Goldsmith Awards Best Score for a Short Film Over the Wall
2018 Nominated HMMA Original Score – Independent Film[15] Miss Arizona
2018 Won HMMA Original Score – Short Film[15] Passage
2017 Nominated HMMA Original Score – Independent Film[16] This Day Forward
2017 Won Fimucité Best Original Score – Short Film[17] Luminaries

References

  1. ^ "Meet Nami Melumad of Nami Melumad – Film Composer, HER Scores in Los Feliz". voyagela.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  2. ^ "Nami Melumad". jamd.ac.il. 7 February 2017. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  3. ^ "בידור - לא אומרים איכס על אוכל" (in Hebrew).
  4. ^ "Nami Melumad". uscscoring.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  5. ^ "Nami Melumad". IMDb.[user-generated source]
  6. ^ Pitt, Alison. "Nami Melumad is the First Woman to Score a Star Trek Episode, "Q&A"". Daily Star Trek News.
  7. ^ Xu, Linda (November 15, 2018). "Hollywood Music in Media Awards: Full List of Winners". The Hollywood Reporter.
  8. ^ "Fimucité affirms its commitment to young talent and female composers". Archived from the original on 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  9. ^ "Awards – IIFC 2018". Archived from the original on 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2019-10-07.
  10. ^ "12 Composers From Around the World Make the Cut for Acclaimed ASCAP 2016 Film Scoring Workshop". ascap.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  11. ^ "Hollywood Chamber Orchestra to Perform at The Future is Female: A Concert for Women in Film May 7". musicalamerica.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  12. ^ "Logic". genius.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  13. ^ Senior Love Triangle, retrieved 2022-08-13
  14. ^ "Leadership". Alliance for Women Film Composers.
  15. ^ a b "Complete list of 2018 HMMA Music In Visual Media Nominations". hmmawards.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  16. ^ "The complete list of 2017 Music In Visual Media nominees". hmmawards.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
  17. ^ "Winners of Fimucinema 2017 - official competition of the Tenerife International Film Music Festival". fimucite.com. Retrieved 2018-11-11.