BIO The music of Nathaniel Blume has been performed across a wide array of genres including film, chamber, orchestral, dance, and opera. Nathaniel began playing trumpet at a young age and has continued exploring his passion for music ever since. He has degrees in composition from Butler University (Indianapolis) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) where he studied rigorously with Michael Schelle and Leonardo Balada, respectively. He completed film scoring studies in the prestigious SMPTV program at the University of Southern California with such composers as Christopher Young, Jack Smalley, Joel McNeely, and Eric Schmidt. After graduating from USC, Blume worked on a DreamWorks project with Christopher Young and assisted Jeff Rona with his 2008 Beijing Olympics commission. Currently, he is working for Blake Neely, assisting him with his three regular television shows among other projects. Blume began a relationship with the production company "21 Productions" in early 2004. Since that time, he has had the opportunity to write music for numerous short and feature length films with the company. Additionally, he has worked on many other short and independent films since relocating to Los Angeles. When Nathaniel is not scoring a film, he continues to work on other projects which come up in the concert arena.