“Jarzebowski joins a growing cadre of composers—Caroline Shaw, Anna Meredith, Mica Levi—who are dismantling Classical’s cold marble walls from the inside out. ”
KATY JARZEBOWSKI is a composer for film & ballet. Her music turns stories into jolts of sound, erasing the line between concert hall, movie screen, and experimental stage.
Since 2020, Katy has collaborated with choreographer Emily Adams on exploring a bold, cinematic vision for dance. Their debut ballet, THE THING WITH FEATHERS—commissioned by Ballet West in partnership with Sundance—sparked a run of fresh commissions from Richmond Ballet and The Rosin Box Project, each work twisting classical form into new-school mythmaking.
Katy’s film scores include MTV’s Emmy-winning documentary THE FIRE THAT TOOK HER (IDA Best Score nomination), Hollywood Music in Media Award–winner BUBJAN, Tribeca favorite CLEMENTINE (soundtrack via Infinite Companion), and the Emmy-nominated IN THE DARK OF THE VALLEY for MSNBC Films. She’s currently scoring two hot-ticket docs: ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN—produced by Terrence Malick, Robert Redford, and Nick Offerman—and ON THE LINE: THE RICHARD WILLIAMS STORY. Her most recent project, SLUMLORD MILLIONAIRE (PBS), aired on the VOCES series in July 2025. Past credits stretch from Jon Stewart’s refugee chronicle AFTER SPRING (STARZ) to the Mark Rylance-fronted NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH and the off-beat, genre-bending comedy THE MOTHER, THE MENACER, AND ME starring Lorraine Bracco and Leah Remini.
A Yale grad with an M.M. from NYU (where she studied under Pulitzer winner Julia Wolfe), she first caught industry attention as a 2014 Sundance Music & Sound Design Lab fellow at Skywalker Sound and, more recently, as a 2024 Berlinale Talent.