BIOGRAPHY
David Majzlin is an Emmy®-nominated, Telly award-winning composer and music producer known for his emotionally rich scores and dynamic collaborations with filmmakers and artists around the world.
He received an Emmy® Award for Sins of My Father (HBO), a Jackson Wild Media Award for Epic Yellowstone (Smithsonian Channel), and the Union des Compositeurs de Musiques de Films Award for his haunting and beautiful score for Stille.
His score for the Netflix documentary Breaking the Silence, directed by Oscar nominee Lorena Muñoz, reached over 2.5 million viewers in its first week. He also scored Bel Canto (starring Oscar winner Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe), featuring five-time Grammy winner Renée Fleming and directed by Oscar nominee Paul Weitz.
Other notable collaborations include MacArthur Fellow Christina Ibarra (Las Marthas), Peabody-winner Robert Rooy (Deej), Pulitzer-winner David Turnley (Shenandoah), and Nancy Buirski for HBO’s Emmy-winning, Oscar-shortlisted The Loving Story.
His work with director Nico Entel (Sins of My Father) has garnered multiple Emmy nominations and his frequent collaborations with director Jordan Horowitz have earned multiple honors including the IDA-shortlisted Jack and Sam (produced by Sarah Silverman and Julianna Margulies), Emmy-winner Lalito 10, and Angel of Nanjing, which twice earned spots in Elle Magazine’s "Films Guaranteed to Make You Cry."
Majzlin’s commissioned work includes Amazon’s Mozart in the Jungle (Sony Classical), Beautiful Monsters (Helios Dance Company), and commercial releases for MGM, HBO, Discovery, and more. Additional credits include Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, The Joneses, Sunshine Cleaning, and The Ghost Writer.
As a songwriter, Majzlin is a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition, a three-time finalist in The Great American Song Contest, and a two-time Hollywood Independent Music Award nominee. His music has appeared in hundreds of film and television projects. He has collaborated with Benjamin Wallfisch (Hidden Figures, The Invisible Man), Paul Cantelon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly), Lou Reed, Harley Flanagan (Cro-Mags), and renowned bassist Fernando Saunders, among other groundbreaking artists.
Commercial compositions have earned a Telly, Caddy, First London International Advertising Award, and International Monitor Award.
Majzlin has also worked on set coaching actors playing musicians in films such as The Music Never Stopped (starring J.K. Simmons and Julia Ormond) and Greetings from Tim Buckley (starring Imogen Poots and Penn Badgley).
In theater, he collaborated with Tony Award-winner Michael Aronov (Oslo, The Americans) on the sold-out one-man show Manigma, and served as music producer for The Rude Mechanicals Theater Company (NYC), including a rock musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Winter's Tale starring Omar Metwally (The Affair, Mr. Robot, Munich).
Majzlin holds a Master’s degree from NYU in Film and Media Literacy under renowned media theorist Neil Postman. He has designed and taught cross-disciplinary courses for filmmakers and composers at numerous institutions including New York Film Academy, UCLA Extension, and Brooklyn College.
