Cameran Johal

Cameran Johal is a British composer currently based in Brooklyn, NYC. His music has both a narrative and emotive emphasis, concerned first and foremost with storytelling. He is stylistically informed by his classical training and takes inspiration from a broad variety of different acoustic and electronic sound worlds to create hybrid scores. As a collaborator, Cameran is always looking to expand his musical horizons, infusing his music with different styles and technologies in order to create music that best fits the projects he’s working on.

Cameran is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Screen Scoring at New York University’s Steinhardt School, where he is both a Global Citizen Scholar and a Piggott/BAFTA Scholar. He has scored numerous projects, including a Columbia University graduate thesis film selected for the ASCAP Scoring Workshop, which featured a recording session at Reservoir Studios in Manhattan. In Summer 2025, he interned with Joy Music House in Los Angeles, aiding with various projects including music preparation for Emile Mosseri and being involved with their Score Production Workshop which allowed him to record his own music at the renowned EastWest Studios. His concert piece Rhapsody in C minor was selected one of four pieces selected for a reading by the NYU Orchestra.

He completed his Bachelor’s degree in Music at the University of Cambridge, receiving an award-winning double first-class grade. While at Cambridge, Cameran began composing for the screen as well as honing various other compositional skills and techniques. He additionally held the Organ Scholarship at Magdalene College for three years as well as being President of the Magdalene Music Society in his final year. In addition to composing, he maintains an interest in choral directing, organ playing and music scholarship, most recently giving a paper on Thomas Newman’s score to Sam Mendes’ 1917 (2019) at the Music and the Moving Image Conference 2025 in New York City.

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