Music director
Chad Cannon
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA · 16 films
Chad Cannon is an American composer, violinist, and orchestrator, raised in Salt Lake City and educated at Harvard (violin and Japanese) and Juilliard (composition). He began his career as an assistant orchestrator for Conrad Pope on scores by Howard Shore and Alexandre Desplat, and has worked closely with composer Joe Hisaishi as lead orchestrator for Hisaishi's globally touring Studio Ghibli concerts. Cannon composed the score for the Oscar-winning documentary American Factory (2019), the Oscar-shortlisted Hidden Letters (2022, co-composed with vocalist Leona Lewis), and The Dating Game (2025), and received a News & Documentary Emmy nomination for Exposing Muybridge. He is now based in Pasadena, California.
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TikTok Never Dies
2026 · Music
Facing the Wind
2024 · Music
Julia's Stepping Stones
2024 · Music
Join or Die
2024 · Music
Tokyo Cowboy
2024 · Music
On Plex
Roleplay
2024 · Music
Penglai
2022 · Music
Post Modern Minion
2022 · Music
Singing in the Wilderness
2021 · Music
Women in Blue
2021 · Music
American Factory
2019 · Music
The Dog Days of Winter
2019 · Music
Devil's Tree: Rooted Evil
2018 · Music
Ylion and Callysia
2017 · Music
Chalk It Up
2016 · Music
On Hoopla