Paul Brill

Composer/Singer-songwriter Paul Brill's latest recording, HARPOONER, along with his original compositions for several award-winning films, TV series and two NPR themes show that youthful adventures as an herbal smokes salesman, street performer, valet, corporate errand boy, and even a marine biology instructor can serve the creative spirit well.

Paul has received 3 EMMY AWARD nominations for his scores for the films, "Full Battle Rattle" (National Geographic), "The Devil Came on Horseback" (Break Thru Films), and "The Trials of Darryl Hunt" (HBO), which was hailed by Variety as “memorably chilling, sounding notes of purest dread.”Young American Recordings recently released the Hunt soundtrack, curated by Brill, featuring selections from his score and contributions by Andrew Bird, M. Ward, Califone, and Mark Kozelek among many others.

Brill recently collaborated with Rock legends U2 on the HBO film, "Burma Soldier," composing a new string arrangement for an acoustic version of their classic song, "Walk On." He scored the hit documentary, "Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" (IFC), the recently released "Page One: Inside the New York Times," as well as Christy Turlington Burns' directorial debut, "No Woman, No Cry," on which he collaborated with songwriter Martha Waignwright, and the film adaptation of the best-selling book, "Freakonomics" (Magnolia Pictures).


Brill is currently the composer for the acclaimed A+E television programs “The First 48” and "Steven Seagal: Lawman," and dozens of films for MTV, The Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), History Channel, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, and PBS, among others