Press Kit

Sean Callery
Press Kit
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SEAN CALLERY
composer
With a total of 13 Emmy® nominations and three wins under his belt, composer Sean Callery is not only set to score
Fox’s “24: Live Another Day,” a reboot of the network’s popular franchise, but is back to composing music for the third
season of Showtime’s award-winning drama “Homeland,” the second season of CBS’ hit Sherlock Holmes-inspired
drama series “Elementary,” and the ninth season of “Bones,” Fox’s longest-running procedural drama.
Known for composing the suspense-driven scores on FOX’s hit series “24,” Callery earned nine Emmy® nominations
throughout the course of the show, which ran for eight seasons and included the 2008 TV movie “24: Redemption.” Of
those nods, he won for Outstanding Music Composition three times. In 2013, Callery was nominated for Outstanding
Original Main Title Theme Music for “Elementary,” and was recognized in the same category for “Homeland” in 2012.
In 2011, Callery scored another Emmy® nod for “The Kennedys,” an eight-part mini-series that starred Greg Kinnear
and Katie Holmes, and premiered worldwide on the Reelz Channel.
Meanwhile, Callery received the ASCAP Top Series honors for his work on “24,” and has also been recognized with
ASCAP honors for his work on the CBS drama “Medium,” and for FOX’s “Bones.”
On the film side, Callery is composing music for Anchor Bay Films’ “Small Time,” written and directed by Emmy-Award
winning “24” executive producer Joel Surnow. The project – slated for an April 2014 release and is loosely based on
Surnow’s life experience – stars Christopher Meloni (“Man of Steel” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”), Bridget
Moynahan (“I Robot” and “Blue Bloods”) and Dean Norris (“Breaking Bad” and “Under the Dome”).
Born and raised in Rhode Island, Callery began studying classical piano at an early age. During his teenage years, he
educated himself in various musical styles and began playing jazz piano on weekends in local nightclubs. He studied
composition and earned a degree in piano performance in 1987 from the New England Conservatory of Music in
Boston.
After a brief stint as a pianist with the All American College Orchestra at Disney World's Epcot Center, he moved to Los
Angeles in 1987, where he began working as a studio musician and part-time assistant for several top composers
including: Alan Silvestri, James Newton Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Herbie Hancock and Mark Snow. Snow
mentored Callery in the earliest days of his career, and the two have remained close friends ever since. In 1993, Callery
was a sound editor on UPN’s “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” which was nominated for an Emmy® for Outstanding
Individual Achievement in Sound Editing for a Series.
Three years later, Callery met Surnow and was hired to compose the score for the USA network series, “La Femme
Nikita.” Callery and Surnow began their second collaboration on “24” in 2001.
Callery’s other TV projects include: FOX’s “The Finder,” Hulu’s 10-part series “The Confession,” CBS’ “Shark,” NBC’s
“Treasure Hunters,” and many others. Callery has also composed music for the 2011 Tibetan film documentary, “Crazy
Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.”
Callery has conducted his own works, most recently with the Tenerife Film Orchestra and Choir at the Fimucite
International Film Music festival on the Canary Islands, Spain. He also has three soundtrack albums featuring music
from the "24" series and is working on soundtracks for both "The Kennedys" and for "Homeland."
In May 2012, Callery participated in the NYU/ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Workshop in Memory of Buddy Baker, a
composer who scored many of Walt Disney’s films. Callery was a featured composer who spearheaded the workshop
dedicated to Hollywood film scoring.
Sean resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Debbie.
Press Contact:
CW3PR
Jana Davidoff
[email protected]
EVENTS
Showtime’s Homeland Season 2
Premiere Party in New York.
Sean with 2012 Emmy Winner Damien
Lewis.
Sean with 2012 Emmy Winner Claire
Danes.
Sean with Mandy Patinkin on the red
carpet.
Above and Left: Sean interviewed on
the red carpet.
EVENTS
Sean chatting with Emily Deschanel
about “Bones” at the FOX Post-Emmy
Party.
Sean with “Homeland’s”
Navid Negahban at the FOX PostEmmy Party.
EVENTS continued…
Sean speaking with
press on the red
carpet at the 2013
Creative Arts Emmys
about his nomination
for Main Title Theme
Music for CBS’s
“Elementary”
Sean at the Society of
Composers and Lyricists 2013
Emmy Reception getting
recognition for his nomination.
EVENTS continued…
Sean with the
“Homeland” creative
team at TV Academy
Panel moderated by
The Hollywood
Reporter.
EVENTS continued…
Right: Sean and wife
Debbie on the red
carpet at the 2012
Primetime Creative
Arts Emmy Awards
Left: Sean
interviewed on the
red carpet at the
2012 Primetime
Creative Arts Emmy
Awards
Sean at the Society of Composers and
Lyricists 2012 Emmy Reception getting
recognition for his nomination.
Sean with Kiefer Sutherland at a
promotional shoot for the 24 Soundtrack
Album.
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Prepared by CW3PR
October 1, 2013
Media Contact:
Jana Davidoff
[email protected]