STEGALL JERMAIN

Bio

Jermaine Stegall is an accomplished and versatile composer and conductor. With over 50 projects to his credit, Stegall most well-known for the score to “Coming 2 America”, the highly anticipated sequel to the Eddie Murphy classic, with Murphy, Arsenio Hall and James Earl-Jones all reprising their roles. Jermaine recently completed the score for Tina Gordon’s "Praise This" starring Chloe Bailey for Universal Pictures. Other scoring and conducting assignments have included “Senior Year” (2022) for Paramount Pictures starring Rebel Wilson, and the upcoming film “Oracle” featuring Heather Graham for Universal As a musical conductor, Stegall led a full string orchestra alongside Grammy-winning artist Tori Kelly at The 2019 ESPY Awards (2019) live in Hollywood at the Microsoft Theater. A year prior, he conducted the orchestra to Camila Cabello’s performance of “Consequences” on ABC’s American Music Awards. Jermaine was also nominated for a MPSE Golden Reel Award for scoring the animated Netflix short film "Canvas" directed by Pixar's Frank Abney III. Jermaine has also been invited to give a guest lecture on the creative aspects of film scoring Berklee College of Music, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Lucasfilm Animation and Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) at Lucasfilm headquarters in San Fransico, CA. Stegall’s extensive music studies include a BA from Northern Illinois University’s School of Music, a Master's degree in Music Composition from the University of North Texas, and the prestigious Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program at Stegall was an active participant in the inaugural 2018-2020 Universal / Dreamworks Film Music Diversity Initiative program, working closely with the film music teams of Universal Pictures, Focus Features, and Dreamworks Animation. Prior to that, he was selected as a Sundance Composer Lab Fellow, and for the BMI Conducting Workshop. The Composer Lab was held at one of his favorite places to record, Skywalker Sound.