July 2025: Composer of the Month

Jules Pegram

Los Angeles-based composer Jules Pegram's music has been performed by the American Composers Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Longwood Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Reno Pops Orchestra, and Symphony in C, among others, and has been recorded by Budapest Scoring Orchestra and the Hollywood Studio Symphony in Los Angeles. Pegram’s most recent film work includes the original scores to the documentaries The Surgeon and the Conductor (2025) and Choral Singing in America: Nurturing the Country’s Soul (2024) and the films Rosalie (2024) and Skin Deep (2024). In July 2021, Pegram could be found leading full orchestral sessions at London’s legendary Abbey Road Studios, serving as conductor and orchestrator for Sturdivant Adams’ evocative score to Prisoners of Paradise (AMG International Film). Commissioned by a consortium of 17 American universities and designed as a sweeping musical travelogue through the City of Angels, Pegram’s L.A.tudes for Band was recognized as a finalist for the 2023 National Band Association Revelli Award, and his Concerto for Alto Saxophone & Wind Ensemble, written for saxophonist Andrew Harrison, was awarded the Frederick Fennell Prize by the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) and the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA). 

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