James Sizemore is a New York-based composer, music editor, and orchestrator, best known for his work orchestrating films such as The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, and producing and arranging the scores for Rosewater and Spotlight.
He contributed electronics programming to the scores of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Cosmopolis, and Maps to the Stars.
He has also worked as an educator, teaching courses on the subject of film scoring at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Music[1] and the Tisch School of the Arts, The Manhattan School of Music, and has served as a guest speaker for Mark of the Unicorn at industry events such as the NAMM Show.
[2] James lives in the Hudson Valley, NY with his wife, chef and cookbook author Nicki Sizemore[3] and his two daughters.