Benjamin Sturley
Composer | Storyteller | Musician | Creative Collaborator
ben@benjaminsturley.com
+1-313-844-1419
Los Angeles, CA
FILMOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTS
Scored the Netflix international hit documentary SEASPIRACY, reaching the top 10 in 50 countries, and #1 in over 30 countries
Produced, Arranged, and Composed the music for JEOPARDY! National College Championship
Scored the original music for the MTV Films / Gunpowder & Sky mini-series SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH for Paramount+
Scored the Wondery original series THE LESSER DEAD, starring Minnie Driver, Jack Kilmer, Danny Huston
Upcoming releases include a Jeff Tremaine-directed Paramount+ documentary series, and an Audible original series starring Harvey Guillén
Former Staff Composer at Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Music, writing & producing original music for hundreds of TV shows, documentaries, and all media
Scored over 40 independent and short films, garnering countless festival awards and nominations
MUSICIAN HIGHLIGHTS
Touring & session bassist & bandleader for Selena Gomez, Liz Phair, Noah Cyrus, Rachel Platten, and many others.
Recent tours include Liz Phair’s 30th anniversary of Exile in Guyville tour, Katy Perry’s Witness Tour (with Noah Cyrus), Selena Gomez’s Revivial World Tour
Performed as bassist & bandleader on over 15 TV shows with various artists, including Saturday Night Live, Fallon (3x), Seth Meyers, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Ellen, and more.
Co-Produced Sony’s LOST IN MUSIC Sessions for Noah Cyrus (2018)
Co-Produced Liz Phair’s ‘Only Love’ for Lena Dunham’s ‘The C-Word’ podcast (2019)
BIO
Benjamin Sturley is an accomplished composer and musician in Los Angeles, California. Originally raised and educated in Detroit, Michigan, Ben is highly experienced in orchestral and jazz composition, and all forms of pop, rock, and electronic music.
Benjamin has scored countless films, TV shows and all media, including SEASPIRACY (Netflix 2021), SOMETIMES WHEN WE TOUCH (Paramount+ 2023), working as a composer at Hans Zimmer’s Bleeding Fingers Music (2020-2023), composing for ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, MTV, VH1, VICE, NatGeo, Discovery, A&E, History Channel, PBS, and more. As a musician, Ben has also toured as bassist and bandleader for Selena Gomez, Liz Phair, Noah Cyrus, and many others.
Benjamin’s abilities as a multi-instrumentalist, his fluency with large-scale orchestrations, combined with his talents in pop and rock compositions, electronic music and synthesis, and his abilities in cutting-edge production techniques have given him an advantage few others can boast in film and TV scoring.
