Jordan Gilmour is a film, theatre and multimedia composer based in Melbourne. With a musical journey that started as a relentlessly touring jazz drummer and a punk rock band member, Jordan contrasted his improvisational, hyperactive and aggressive approach to making art into meditative and evocative musical story-telling scores for the screen and theatre. His attraction to composition was manifested through the timbral limitations of the drum kit and frustration of the role as an accompanist to the song-writers and composers of bands he was apart of. Since shifting his focus into screen and theatre composition, Jordan has worked on dozens of projects between the U.K. and Australia, which has seen his work praised to critical acclaim at a variety of film festivals including the Melbourne International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, Adelaide International Film Festival and Palm Springs Film Festival. Most recently, Jordan has scored the award-winning documentary Morgana on BINGE and mini-series Prepping Australia on ABC Network. With a specialization in creating a unique blend of cinematic soundscapes that combine emotive orchestral arrangements with delicate piano themes and ambient electronic textures, his work has often been compared to composers such as Olafur Arnalds, Johann Johannson, Nils Frahm, David Wingo, Volker Bertelmann, Dustin O’Halloran, Trent Reznor and Atticus Rose. 

Some notable highlights include his hand-picked candidacy for a masterclass with Philip Glass as part of a collaboration with selected filmmakers in Edinburgh, Scotland. This was to compose music in response to the Qatsi Trilogy film series through the BBC and Screen Academy Scotland and was screened at the 2011 Edinburgh International Festival and critiqued by Glass himself. His score for the award-winning documentary Morgana was a festival highlight at the 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). He was also commissioned to compose a piece for the Federation Bells, an instrument located in Melbourne, which was performed as part of the 2014 White Night Festival. 

That same year, Jordan proved his skills in efficiency and ability to work to a strict deadline by composing a score to the short film Bobby in two days as part of the 48 Film festival, Melbourne. He took home the award for best music at the awards night! His most recent work For Our Freedom is a multi-arts audio/visual installation showcasing his cinematic compositional style written for a collection of spoken-word stories of identity from Indigenous Australians and asylum seekers, interpreted by a variety of motion graphics and multimedia artists.