James Everingham

James Everingham is a British film and television composer and music producer based in Los Angeles. Everingham’s scores include The Blue Angels, Frozen Planet II, Apollo: Missions to the Moon, The Real Right Stuff and Robin and the Hoods. Everingham has collaborated with Hans Zimmer and Bleeding Fingers Music on multiple projects including the BBC series Virdee, and on music for American YouTuber MrBeast. In 2023, Everingham contributed music to NBC’s Super Bowl LVI show open. The music features an NFL-style drumline and underscore’s actress Halle Berry’s introduction to the sporting event.

Career
On 27 August 2022, as part of the pre-launch publicity for Frozen Planet II, it was revealed that vocals by Norwegian singer-songwriter Aurora would feature as part of the music written for the series by Everingham, Hans Zimmer and Adam Lukas.

In 2023, Everingham composed the music for Encounter Dinosaurs, a free app developed by Apple and Fairview Portals that shipped with Vision Pro.

In February 2024, it was announced that Everingham would be co-composing the music for the upcoming BBC series Virdee with Hans Zimmer, featuring Indian music composer Shashwat Sachdev. The six-part series is adapted for the screen by AA Dhand and is produced by Magical Society for BBC One.

Sample libraries
Everingham has also produced a number of virtual instrument sample libraries used for music production. In 2017, Everingham collaborated with developer Fracture Sounds, on a sample library instrument of his family’s Wilh. Steinberg upright piano, titled Woodchester Piano.

During the production of Frozen Planet II, Everingham worked with British music technology company Spitfire Audio on the development of Fractured Strings. Recorded at the London’s AIR Studios with an eight-piece string ensemble and two soloists, the library was designed to demonstrate the musical gestures of a chamber ensemble, offering inspiring and surprising intervallic and modal possibilities.

In 2020, while the Royal Albert Hall was closed due to COVID-19, Everingham led a team in the sampling and recording of the Royal Albert Hall Organ. Microphones were placed around the auditorium, including a binaural microphone placed inside the royal box. These recordings were then edited and developed such that composers can play the pre-registered organ as a virtual instrument within a digital audio workstation, using the Native Instruments Kontakt platform. Royal Albert Hall Organ was publicly released on 5 April 2022.