Garth Neustadter is an Emmy Award-Winning composer and multi-instrumentalist who has composed feature-length scores for Warner Bros., PBS, Turner Classic Movies, and China’s CCTV, and has collaborated with directors including James Franco. Neustadter gained early attention as the First Prize winner of the Turner Classic Movies Film Composers Competition. In 2011 he was one of the youngest composers to receive a Primetime Emmy Award for his score for the PBS documentary, “John Muir in the New World.” His work has been performed by violinist Hilary Hahn as part of the Encores Contest. A graduate of the Yale School of Music, Neustadter also holds degrees in violin and voice performance from Lawrence University. He plays a 1991 Joseph Curtin violin.