Mini Bio
Timo Chen is a gifted pianist, virtuoso guitarist, Emmy-award winning composer,
accomplished songwriter, and veteran music producer. His talents were nurtured at a young age
at the USC Community School of Performing Arts (now the Colburn School) and on through his
studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music as well as into his adult life around the world
studying and performing a diverse array of music including Chinese Pop, American Jazz,
Balinese Gamelan, and Peking Opera.
After spending a number of years assisting composers and working in the realm of music
technology and performance, Timo was selected to be a fellow for the 2014 Sundance Film
Music and Sound labs at Skywalker Sound. There, he studied under master film and TV
composers Alan Silvestri, Peter Golub, James Newton Howard, Blake Neely, and Alex Wurman.
He went on to further his Sundance journey by scoring Jennifer Phang’s film, Advantageous,
which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival