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Simon J. Li
Composer • Producer • Orchestrator
Simon J. Li is a composer and record producer based in Los Angeles. A passionate collaborator, he has crafted distinctive and evocative sonic landscapes for an array of film, concert, and pop projects, leaving each with a lasting impact and thought-provoking story.
Scores
Humanize Me
0:42
Imagination
0:47
Becky
1:40
The High
0:43
Jerry Escapes
0:48
A Pink Feather in a Sea of Gray
1:44
Chains
1:20
Mob Standoff
0:56
Bookstore Shenanigans
0:44
Tamaki Dr
0:31
Jack the Mack
1:16
Self Love
1:04
Reunited
0:33
Teddy and Ruthie
0:41
Erma's Testimony
1:27
T-mo Apologizes
0:44
Pop / Electronic Production
CLAUDIA - Hooked
0:32
Keilani Mai - Driveway
0:52
"A" Train Ditty
0:46
Alex Yen feat. Sophia Lanman - Good Times (Stripped Version)
1:04
CLAUDIA - Love, Again
0:38
Oblivion (Simon J. Li Remix)
2:07
Broken Glass
0:46
It's Snowing But Let's Go Out
0:30
Illusionary Daytime (Simon J. Li Remix)
0:32
White Lies
0:46
Concert Music
Scattered Flares
1:42
Storefront Reflections
0:35
Lilac Wind
0:26
The Perfect Souvenir
1:22
Milan
0:27
Biography
Simon J. Li is a New Zealand composer whose writing is characterized by colorful harmony, sensitivity to emotional nuance, and a distinctive musical voice shaped by both classical and contemporary influences.
He has worked on the music teams for the Academy Award-nominated films May December (starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore) and Flamin’ Hot (dir. Eva Longoria), along with acclaimed works such as Equalizer 3 (starring Denzel Washington), Emancipation (starring Will Smith), and American Gigolo (starring Jon Bernthal).
As a composer, he has written music for short- and feature-length films, most recently the 2024 feature film Down Town (dir. Gavin Gaitan), which won Best Feature Film at the 2024 Sherman Oaks Film Festival and Best Original Score at the 2025 Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. His concert works include Variations on a Raindrop, which premiered by the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra in 2023 and the San Gabriel Valley Symphony Orchestra in 2025.
In addition to his composing work, Simon has contributed orchestrations and arrangements for pop and studio releases, including FKA twigs’ Childlike Things music video, pop artist CLAUDIA’s album Love, Again, and R&B singer Milky Day’s EP Impulses, as well as the World Ballet Company’s The Great Gatsby Ballet.
Simon's extensive experience includes working as a music assistant for the Broadway musical Once Upon a One More Time, as a recording and mixing engineer at the Logan Center for the Arts, and as a studio intern at the Chicago Recording Company.
He holds a Master’s degree in Screen Scoring at NYU Steinhardt where he received the Alan Menken scholarship, and has studied with Emmy-nominated composer Ariel Marx, Chris Hajian, Jamie Lawrence, and Eric V. Hachikian.
Currently based in Los Angeles, he is a proud member of the Society for Composers and Lyricists (SCL), Composers Diversity Collective (CDC), and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI).