Estonian-born Jonas Tarm is a New York-based composer and music producer, renowned for his exceptional work in film and concert music. He has received numerous commissions from various ensembles, including the Grammy-winning Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, New York Virtuoso Singers, Boston Musica Viva, the Estonian XXVII Song Festival, New York Youth Symphony, and the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. His work has also been performed worldwide by ensembles such as the Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn in Germany, Camerata Notturna Orchestra in New York, New World Symphony Players in Miami – among others. Jonas has collaborated closely with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, which has premiered four of his major works to date.

Jonas recently scored award-winning filmmaker Béla Baptiste’s film The Obelisk, recording with the Collegium Musicale choir, in addition to Nathan Hilgartner’s debut feature horror film No Choice. Jonas has collaborated on several film scores, including for Oscar-winning writer-director Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Netflix), M. Night Shyamalan’s feature narrative OLD, Benjamin Cleary’s Golden Globe-nominated Swan Song (AppleTV+) starring Mahershala Ali, among several others.

Jonas’s music has been performed in venues worldwide, including the Miami’s New World Center, Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall in China, Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Altenhof Kuhhaus in Germany, Pärnu Music Festival in Estonia are to name a few. Jonas’s music has also been frequently heard on Estonia’s ERR Classical Radio and Estonian National TV.

Jonas is a passionate supporter of Ukraine: he is the co-founder and organizer of Estonia Sings for Ukraine, a charity fundraiser project which mobilized thousands of singers to perform Jonas’s arrangement of Oi u luzi chervona kalyna.

Jonas’s compositions have received numerous awards including the Black Nights Film Festival Music Meets Film Award (sponsored by Orchestral Tools), ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Composition Award and National YoungArts Award for Music Composition.

Jonas has worked on several major projects as engraver, editor, orchestrator and arranger for publishers including Bärenreiter Verlag, Boosey & Hawkes Berlin, G. Schirmer; organizations New York City Ballet, Canadian Opera Company, Boston Philharmonic; composers Wayne Shorter, and Rufus Wainwright.

Jonas holds bachelor and master’s degrees with honors in composition from the New England Conservatory. Jonas is grateful for having been able to learn with several wise, kind, and tough teachers. They include: composition with Stratis Minakakis, Michael Gandolfi, Anthony Coleman, John Mallia, Robert Cogan, Matthew Hagle, and Mischa Zupko; conducting with Charles Peltz, Erica Washburn, and Paul Mägi; violin with Gerardo Ribeiro and Desiree Ruhstrat; lessons of life and harmony “of the highest order” with Lyle Davidson.