Jonathan Grow

Winner Best Original Score - 54 Film Festival (2026)

“To me, there are moments where it feels like James Newton Howard and Thomas Newman got together and wrote a score, but were told they could only keep a few of their favorite moments.”

- David Shipps, BAFTA Award-winning Orchestrator (John Wick: Chapter 4, London Has Fallen, Helldivers 2)

The award-winning score from composer Jonathan Grow for Vacation Day Seven is set to release May 22nd. A short film that tells the story of a couple navigating an impossibly difficult turn of events together, Grow produces a tender score that is at times hopeful and playful, and at other times mysterious and dark and imbued with sadness. The arc of the human experience, wrapped in a six minute score.

This score won 2026 Best Original Score at The 54 Film Festival (Nashville).

Recent Projects

Curious Dramedy

Toofy Grin Music

Quirky, light, and fun. This is an album further exploring the themes of drama and comedy with a bit of suspense and mystery.

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Dramedy & Light mystery

11/One Music

Lighthearted and playfully mysterious, this album is my latest work, exploring lighter themes for light drama and comedy. Listen now wherever music is streamed or sold!

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Magical Journey: Orchestral drama

Orchestral drama (11/One Music)

This project is a collection of orchestral drama compositions that will take you on a journey from title sequences to a river in Paris; from forests to mountaintops; from nostalgia and sadness to hope. Listen now wherever music is sold.

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New EP

3

My third studio project, 3, is an EP which explores the story of journey. Returning to my boyhood roots at the piano, 3 is a journey from simple, melancholic solo piano to everybody in orchestral composition. Each of the 3 tracks on this EP is a story told in a classic three-act structure, and each using 3 as the anchor point for its meter: 3/4, 6/8, 12/8 time, triplets, etc.

This is an exploration of the story of becoming, as a human and as a composer.

3 released on 3/3.

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Stories All Around Us

Step outside. Look up at the stars. Close your eyes. Listen to the trees creek and sway. The water rushing.

Stories All Around Us is an ambient acoustic album composed in the outdoors. Drawing inspiration from nature, this is about connecting with nature. Using the natural rhythms and sounds of the earth. Beauty in Nature, the first track, was composed on a camping trip with my son - something I treasure. Listen for the crackle of a campfire in the music's texture. Feel the rhythm of the crickets and bugs as they undulate around 120 bpm. Hear the scraping and tapping of the iron skillet over the fire in the percussion.

Step outside and have a listen.

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FOOTBALL IS FOR EVERYONE

So proud to have my work included in this case study for the NFL's "Football is For Everyone" advertising campaign. This was a piece that I composed for Howling Music. The work they put out for this series of adverts and case studies was incredible, and important. The final NFL ad placed second in Ad Age's 30 Best Ads of 2021. Please have a watch and listen to this case study and the impactful final NFL ad. And please consider supporting The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention and crisis intervention organization helping LGBTQ young people.

Le Vol

A neo-classical composition reminiscent of the romantic period, Le Vol is a telling of the story of children moving away and the processing of the joys and sorrows that ensue. Told in three movements, it begins with faster phrases of piano and moves to orchestral restatements of the theme in the second movement. The piece finishes with both a lightness and enduring melancholy in a final movement that is told by harp, gentle woodwinds, and legato movements of strings. Throughout, the story is threaded together by piano and variations on the theme.

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