Ezra Axelrod is a music composer for film, dance and theatre based in Cali, Colombia.
He specialises in film scoring, contemporary electronic and acoustic production, string arrangement, and songwriting.
Recent feature film projects include the Macondo Award-nominated soundtrack for Pepe Cáceres, the soundtrack for the feature documentaries Torah Tropical (2024) and Nocaut (2022); Ezra composed the original soundtrack for Acervoz (2021), a 13-episode docs-series for Telepacífico; he produced the contemporary dance short Panóptica (2020) for Colombian choreographer Eduard Mar, as well as creating the music and sound design for the film, which premiered in 2020 at the Brújula al Sur Festival; other recent short film soundtracks include Drunk of Sun, directed by director Story Chen; Luc Mollinger’s The Mermaid of Mevagissey, starring Joe Absolom and Jessica Gunning, official selection at the Austin Film Festival; and HéCTOR, premiered at the D'A Festival in Barcelona; he also made music for Saila Huusko's documentary Arctic Books, aired on Al Jazeera English.
Ezra;s work has been featured in shorts for Massimo Dutti and TimeOut, ads for Toyota, Yeni Raki, Decathlon, Radisson, Multiópticas, DirrtyWork, MAM Originals, ING Bank, the Turkish Ministry of Youth, and content for the BBC. Theatre projects include music and sound design for Gliwice Hamlet at the V&A Museum, as well as for Makalla McPherson's debut play When The Lights Go Out at the Ovalhouse Theatre in London.
He received his Masters in Composition for Screen from the Royal College of Music and his BA in Music from Middlebury College, in Vermont.
Originally from a small town in Eastern Oregon, Ezra's music draws from the many environments he loves: from the troubled open landscapes of his childhood to the melting pot of music in Latin America and London.