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Music Director
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Edit pagePeter Nashel
Biography
Peter Nashel is an American composer. He has composed scores for several films and television series including, I, Tonya, Marco Polo, and Totally Under Control. He is the founder and principal of the music production company, duotone audio group.
Nashel has worked on numerous film and television scores. In 2001, he earned his first screen credit as a composer for his work on the Sundance award-winning feature film, The Deep End, starring Tilda Swinton.
In the ensuing years, he composed the music for several features including Bee Season, the 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche, The Night Listener (2006), based on Armistead Maupin’s novel of the same name and starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette, the academy-award winning documentary film No End in Sight (2007) and the 2009 thriller Carriers.
More recently, he scored the 2017 Oscar-winning black comedy, I, Tonya directed by Craig Gillespie and Book Club (2018), starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candace Bergen.
He has also worked on numerous television and documentary projects. He composed scores for the TV series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009), Rubicon (2010), Lie to Me (2010–2011), Marco Polo (2014–2016), Mike (2022), and Alaska Daily (2022), among others. His documentary work includes Freakonomics (2010), Totally Under Control (2020), The Crime of the Century (2021), and Boom! Boom! The World vs. Boris Becker.
