Chad Cannon
Composer
Chad Cannon is an American composer, violinist, and orchestrator, raised in Salt Lake City and educated at Harvard (violin and Japanese) and Juilliard (composition). He began his career as an assistant orchestrator for Conrad Pope on scores by Howard Shore and Alexandre Desplat, and has worked closely with composer Joe Hisaishi as lead orchestrator for Hisaishi's globally touring Studio Ghibli concerts. Cannon composed the score for the Oscar-winning documentary American Factory (2019), the Oscar-shortlisted Hidden Letters (2022, co-composed with vocalist Leona Lewis), and The Dating Game (2025), and received a News & Documentary Emmy nomination for Exposing Muybridge. He is now based in Pasadena, California.
Filmography
| 2026 | TikTok Never Dies · as Original Music Composer |
| 2025 | The Dating Game · as Composer |
| 2025 | The Carman Family Deaths · as Composer |
| 2025 | Atomic Echoes: Untold Stories from World War II · as Composer |
| 2025 | The Rose: Come Back to Me · as Composer |
| 2024 | Julia's Stepping Stones · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Facing the Wind · as Original Music Composer |
| 2024 | Night Is Not Eternal · as Composer |
| 2024 | Roleplay · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | Join or Die · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | Tokyo Cowboy · as Original Music Composer |
| 2023 | Dr. Bala · as Composer |
| 2023 | Algiers, America · as Composer |
| 2022 | Hidden Letters · as Composer |
| 2022 | Post Modern Minion · as Original Music Composer |
| 2022 | Trouble · as Composer |
| 2022 | Mind Over Murder · as Composer |
| 2022 | Surf Nation · as Composer |
| 2021 | Exposing Muybridge · as ComposerOn Plex |
| 2021 | Singing in the Wilderness · as Original Music Composer |
| 2021 | Women in Blue · as Original Music Composer |
| 2020 | Harbor from the Holocaust · as Composer |
| 2019 | American Factory · as Original Music Composer |
| 2019 | CyberWork and the American Dream · as Composer |
| 2019 | Mushroom Park · as Composer |
| 2018 | Devil's Tree: Rooted Evil · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Chalk It Up · as Original Music Composer |
| 2016 | Paper Lanterns · as Composer |
| 2016 | The Redeemed and the Dominant: Fittest on Earth · as ComposerOn Plex |
| 2015 | Froning: The Fittest Man in History · as Composer |
| 2015 | Cairo Declaration · as Composer |
| 2026 | The Climb · as Musician |
| 2016 | The Secret Life of Pets · as Orchestrator |
| 1988 | P.O.V · as Sound |