Jesi Oklee Nelson is a Korean born, Wisconsin raised, Los Angeles based composer for film & media. Her most recent works include Dreamworks Animation’s, AppleTV series, “Curses!” (with a soundtrack release linked below), and Marvel’s “MPower” on Disney+! In 2021, Jesi scored Lucasfilm's Star Wars “Biomes” and “Vehicle Flythroughs” on Disney+, becoming the first female and BIPOC lead composer on a Star Wars project. She also co-scored Discovery's “Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitness” and Playmobil's animated series "Novelmore". Her past works comprise of the feature film "Jinn", short films "Aurinko in Adagio" and "Shoebox", and writing additional music for “DOTA Dragon’s Blood” (she also scored the trailers for season one), EMMY nominated "Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures", and "Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu", amongst a wide variety of other films and tv series.
She is an alumna of the highly competitive “Universal Composers Initiative (2021-2023), the ASCAP Composers Workshop (2018), and the prestigious Sundance Film Music & Sound Design Lab (2017) held at Skywalker Ranch. During her time there, she became the recipient of the Sundance Institute and Time Warner Foundation grant, where 11 diverse independent artists were chosen from different Sundance labs, in its continued efforts to discover and support independent artists from diverse backgrounds.
Click HERE or the icon below to visit her IMDb page for further credits and stay tuned for new and exciting projects to soon be announced!
Jesi is represented by Rochelle Sharpe of Incite Management
Personal Contact: jesinelsonmusic@gmail.com
NEWS & LINKS:
“Curses!” Season 01 Soundtrack here!
Watch her interview with Broadcast Music Inc’s (BMI) latest new series, “Know Them Now”, here!
Read her latest coverage in the New York Times here!
Click here for the release of JINN the soundtrack!
Check out her coverage from the LA Times during the ASCAP Workshop here!
Read one of many reviews of JINN, this one highlighting the score! Click here!
Click here for the Sundance Institute/Time Warner Foundation press release.
Jesi received her BFA in Music Composition and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Master of Fine Arts in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College.