Joe Kraemer

JOE KRAEMER has composed music for over 40 feature films, television movies and episodic series.  He has conducted orchestras in Seattle and had his music performed by symphonies in Europe.  He performs as a singer-songwriter in Los Angeles, and has produced albums for several artists.
  Joe studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he was awarded for both film composing and songwriting.  After graduating with a degree in Film Scoring he moved to Los Angeles to begin writing for film professionally.
  He scored his first feature film in 1995, after contributing music to the television series LAND'S END, and writing a song for the Farrelly Brothers' movie KINGPIN.   He has continued to score films, working on such projects as THE WAY OF THE GUN, RALPH NADER:AN UNREASONABLE MAN and THE THIRST. 
  Joe has collaborated with such directors and filmmakers as Bryan Singer, Christopher McQuarrie, The Farrelly Brothers, Diane Keaton, Richard Benjamin, Louis Morneau, Daniel Petrie, Jr., Rod Holcomb, The Russo Brothers, John Putch, Mark Altman, Heidi Van Lier and Frank Q. Dobbs.  He has also worked with film composers John Ottman, Marco Beltrami, Andrew Gross, and Freedy Johnston. 
  His score for THE WAY OF THE GUN was named both "Sleeper Score of the Year 2000" and runner-up for "Best Score of the Year 2000" by Video Watchdog Magazine.  Music From The Movies.com voted him "Film Music Newcomer of the Year 2000" in their annual poll, and Film Score Monthly.com named THE WAY OF THE GUN one of the top five scores of 2000.
  As a singer/songwriter, Joe performs in Los Angeles and has released "joe kraemer", an album of original songs. He has produced recordings for artists Dylan Kussman, Lisa Donahey, and Valerie Peterson.
Additionally, Joe has worked as an actor, most notably appearing in the film CHI GIRL, directed by Heidi Van Lier, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance '99, and the film MONDAY, also directed by Van Lier, which screened at the Slamdance Film Festival in 2006.