Garth Neustadter (born May 4, 1986, in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist.
He completed undergraduate degrees in violin and voice performance at Lawrence University and went on to study composition at the Yale School of Music.
[citation needed] In 2007, Neustadter was selected by veteran film composer Hans Zimmer as the winner of the Turner Classic Movies Young Film Composers Competition.
He subsequently composed feature-length scores for Turner Classic Movies, Warner Bros., and PBS.
[2] In 2011, Neustadter received a Primetime Emmy Award for his score for the PBS American Masters documentary, "John Muir in the New World".