Jeff Kryka

Music Theory and Ear Training
Music Theory and Ear Training

Los Angeles-based composer, orchestrator, and conductor Jeff Kryka has been awarded by Turner Classic Movies, ASCAP, the RMALA, and the Henry Mancini Foundation. His work has been featured in major motion pictures, TV series, video games, and heard in concert halls across the globe.

Jeff studied music composition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.M. 2006) and at the University of California-Los Angeles (M.A. 2008 & Ph.D. 2011) and he has taught music theory, ear training and composition at UCLA and the Colburn Conservatory of Music.

Some of his recent credits include composing the score for the Disney+ documentary series The Imagineering Story, the HBO Max documentary series Superpowered: the DC Story, and the documentary feature Traces of the Brush, as well as orchestrations on: Inside Out 2, The Batman, Society of the Snow, Marvel’s Spider-Man trilogy, What If…?, the Jurassic World trilogy, Jojo Rabbit, Glass Onion, Coco, Incredibles 2, Vivo, Rogue One: a Star Wars Story, Doctor Strange, Zootopia, and Star Trek Beyond.

For more information, please visit www.jeffkrykamusic.com

Andrew Frane, PhD

Humanities

Dr. Frane earned his Ph.D. in psychology, with an emphasis in cognitive neuroscience, from the University of California, Los Angeles. View All Faculty