Jo Blankenburg

Jo Blankenburg is a German composer based in Los Angeles. He writes music for film and motion picture advertising. His primary musical instrument is the piano.

He was trained to play organ.

Personal life Blankenburg resides in Los Angeles, but has also resided in New York City and Auckland, New Zealand.

Albums

Floatovations Jo Blankenburg's debut album, Floatovations, published by Zero Latency, was released on January 9, 2007. The album comprised five meditative compositions with an ocean/sea theme.

Vendetta An album composed by Jo Blankenburg for Position Music, released on March 21, 2011. Its songs were used for major motion advertising campaigns for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, X-Men: First Class and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn among many others.

Elysium Elysium was released on July 31, 2012 by Position Music, following the success of Vendetta.

Trailer music

2009 – The Wolfman 2009 – How To Train Your Dragon 2009 – FlashForward 2011 – "Dystopic" for featurette X-Men: First Class 2011 – "Satorius" for TV Spot Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2011 – "Conquest of Antaria" for Featurette Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2011 – "Juggernaut" and "Satorius" for America's Got Talent 2011 – "Vendetta" and "Satorius" for TV Spot The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn 2011 – "Vendetta" for Home Video Trailer Rise of the Planet of the Apes 2011 – "Enamorus" for Far Cry 3 2012 – "Apophis" for TV Spot The Hunger Games 2012 – "Illumielle" for the official Christmas television advert for British department store Debenhams 2013 – "Imperatrix Mundi" for 300: Rise of an Empire 2014 – "Garador's Flight" for ABC News intro music at 05:30 for the switchover from BBC World Service 2018 - "Hiraeth" for Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2019 - "Play the Ponies" for Knives Out 2020 - "The Magellan Matrix" for Wonder Woman 1984

Credits 2005 – "Shortfilm: The World Beneath" 2005 – "Documentary: Ticket" 2006 – "Documentary: Poetry" 2006 – "Feature Film: Stages" 2007 – "Music Video: Vahveraasio" 2007 – "Shortfilm: Omega99" 2007 – "Music Video: Planet Earth Forever" 2008 – "Shortfilm: Squalid" 2008 – "Four orchestral pieces for Immediate Music 2009 – "Music for Congolese opera" 2009 – "Theme music for World of Wearable Art 2010 – "Demo music for Dr. Grordbort, Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings)" 2011 – "Audio-visual project Oil Spill for Berlin International Film Festival showcase 2011 – "Music for documentary The Human Experience" 2011 – "Shortfilm: Anamnesis" 2011 – "Music for Qtel commercial promoting the 2011 World of Wearable Art

Discography 2007 – Floatovations (solo album) 2008 – The Feather Dance (solo album) 2008 – Squalid (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2010 – Vendetta (Position Music) 2011 – The Human Experience (Grassroots Films) 2012 – Elysium (Position Music) 2012 – The Rebirth (single) 2015 – Kaleidoscope (Position Music) 2016 – Valkyrie (Position Music) 2017 – Cronos (Position Music) 2018 – Clandestine (Position Music) 2018 – Cosmagora (Position Music) 2018 – Stillness Speaks (solo album) 2019 – Rakasha (solo album) 2019 – Petrichor (Position Music) 2019 – Sacrosanct (Position Music) 2019 – Mile X Mile (Position Music) 2019 – Eleomera (Position Music) 2020 – Vanguard (Position Music) 2020 – Hemispheres (Position Music) 2020 – Ghost in the Machine (Position Music) 2020 – Vandals (Position Music) 2021 – Memoirs (Position Music) 2021 – Sentience (Position Music) 2021 – Unravel (Position Music) 2022 – The World Is Waiting (Position Music) 2022 – Clandestine II: Vespertine (Position Music) 2022 – Clandestine III: Emanence (Position Music) 2023 – Rust (Position Music) 2023 - Vocalese (Position Music)