JASHA KLEBE

Jasha Klebe is a composer known for emotive melodies and impactful scores. Most notably, Jasha co-scored the BAFTA and Emmy nominated music of BBC’s Planet Earth II, alongside Hans Zimmer and Jacob Shea. He additionally provided music to the follow up series, Blue Planet II, as well as wrote the Emmy nominated music of National Geographic’s Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes and Diana: In Her Own Words. Jasha also composed the score to Netflix’s Oscar nominated documentary, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom, as well as the director Evgeny Afineevsky’s companion piece, Freedom on Fire.

In 2019, he composed the score to the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary, The Black Godfather, directed by Reginald Hudlin and produced by Nicole Avant. In 2021 he scored FOX’s Malika the Lion Queen narrated by Angela Bassett as well as music for Garrett Bradley’s poignant series, Naomi Osaka. He also wrote the music for Netflix/Plimsoll’s nature documentary series, Animal. In 2022 he scored the true-crime documentary series, I Just Killed My Dad, directed by Skye Borgman, as well as Peacock’s reimagining of Queer as Folk, created by Stephen Dunn and exec produced by Russell T Davies.

His music can be most recently heard on the ITVX original series, A Year On Planet Earth, narrated by Stephen Fry, Peacock’s new documentary, Queer Planet, and the highly anticipated upcoming series, Our Planet II.

Jasha began his musical career at the age of 5, singing at his grandparents’ opera house, Cinnabar Theater, in Petaluma, CA. He studied classical piano and trombone for over 15 years before he moved to Los Angeles and started working at Remote Control Productions under Hans Zimmer. Over the 4 years with Hans, Jasha wrote on such films as The Dark Knight Rises, Rush, Man of Steel, and several other notable projects. Jasha was also the music arranger for the 84th Academy Awards, as well as keyboard/synthesizer player within the event’s orchestra. In 2013, Jasha began to serve as one of the headlining composers at Bleeding Fingers Music. Within this role, Jasha contributed countless hours of music to some of the most acclaimed series on television, including shows on ABC, CBS, MTV, Netflix, Lifetime, A&E, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, National Geographic, BBC, and he performed live on The Late Show with Colbert alongside Shea and Zimmer.

Jasha currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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SELECTED CREDITS

Our Planet II (Documentary TV Series, 2023) - Composer and Score Producer
Queer Planet (Documentary TV Series, 2023) - Composer
A Year On Planet Earth (Documentary TV Series, 2022) - Composer
Queer as Folk (TV Series, 2022) - Composer
Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom (Documentary, 2022) - Composer
I Just Killed My Dad (TV Series, 2022) - Composer
Animal (TV Series, 2021) - Composer
Naomi Osaka (TV Mini Series, 2021) - Additional Composer
Malika the Lion Queen (TV Special, 2021) - Composer
The Black Godfather (Film, 2019) - Composer
Medal of Honor (Documentary TV Series, 2018) - Composer
Blue Planet II (Documentary TV Series, 2017) - Composer: Additional Music
Diana: In Her Own Words (Documentary, 2017) - Composer
Planet Earth II (Documentary TV Series, 2016) - Composer
Challenger Disaster: Lost Tapes (Documentary TV Series, 2016) - Composer
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom (Documentary, 2015) - Composer