David James Nielsen was born in 1977 in Calgary in the Canadian province of Alberta, and entered the musical world playing piano at age 6. He began composing at 15 and went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts Degree in music from the University of Calgary. From 1997 to 2003, David served as Composer in Residence at Calgary’s Pleiades Theatre/Vertigo Mystery Theatre, where he scored numerous theatrical plays.
In 2003, David earned a certificate in Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television from the University of Southern California, where he was honored with the Harry Warren Scholarship Award.
David has scored or provided music for such films as Reclaiming the Blade, Dated, A Timeless Journey, Tales From Beyond, Haunting Villisca, Overlap, The Big Table, Man vs. Woman and The Little Documentary That Couldn’t, as well as for the syndicated television series Animal Exploration With Jarod Miller. As an additional music composer, orchestrator and/or synth programmer, David has worked on the popular TV series Star Trek: Enterprise, the National Geographic/PBS special Eden at the End of the World and the television movies The Tenth Circle, Flight 93 and Faith of My Fathers. In 2010, David received a McKnight Visiting Composer Residency in association with the American Composers Forum.

MOVIESCORE MEDIA ALBUMS BY DAVID JAMES NIELSEN: