---
name: "Colin Stetson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/colin-stetson"
fi1m_id: "colin-stetson"
imdb_id: "nm2715764"
tmdb_id: 1208823
wikidata_id: "Q2982657"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "3 March 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-13T21:47:59.386677+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Colin Stetson

## Identity

Colin Stetson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/colin-stetson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** colin-stetson
- **IMDb ID:** nm2715764
- **TMDB ID:** 1208823
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2982657
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Stetson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2982657, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2715764/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1208823

Composer. Born 3 March 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 3 March 1975, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- **Active:** 2018–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 83 (1), 2020s 72 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Stetson, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2982657, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2715764/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1208823

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Hereditary*](https://film.one/film/hereditary.md) (83)
- **Disney+:** [*The Menu*](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Colin Stetson is an American saxophonist, multireedist and composer based in Montreal. Born on 3 March 1975 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he studied at the University of Michigan School of Music on a full scholarship.

He is known for solo albums such as the New History Warfare series and collaborations with Arcade Fire, Bon Iver and others. Since 2013 he has composed scores for several films and series, including *Arrival* (2016), *Hereditary* (2018), *Color Out of Space* (2020), *The Menu* (2022) and *Texas Chainsaw Massacre* (2022).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, colinstetson.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *The Menu* (2022), Fi1m 72, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md)
- *Hereditary* (2018), Fi1m 83, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/hereditary.md)

## Complete filmography (32)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Mayday* (2026), Original Music Composer, Scoring Mixer
- *The Whisper Man* (2026), Original Music Composer
- *Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen* (2026), series, Original Music Composer
- *Masks All the Way Down* (2025), Music
- *Uzumaki* (2024), series, Original Music Composer
- *Hold Your Breath* (2024), Original Music Composer
- *Martha* (2024), Original Music Composer, Score Engineer
- *My Fear in My Arms* (2023), Original Music Composer
- *The Menu* (2022), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-menu.md)
- *Texas Chainsaw Massacre* (2022), Musician, Original Music Composer
- *Mayday* (2021), Original Music Composer
- *25 Years of Innocence* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Barkskins* (2020), series, Original Music Composer
- *Shelter in Place* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Last and First Men* (2020), Musician
- *Color Out of Space* (2020), Original Music Composer
- *Bone Mother* (2018), Musician
- *The First* (2018), series, Original Music Composer
- *Age Out* (2018), Original Music Composer
- *Hereditary* (2018), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/hereditary.md)
- *Destierros* (2017), Music
- *Arrival* (2016), Musician — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/arrival.md)
- *Lavender* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *The War Show* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *Outlaws and Angels* (2016), Original Music Composer
- *An American, Portrait of Raymond Luc Levasseur* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *The Fear* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *Scrum* (2015), Original Music Composer
- *It's About Time* (2015), Music
- *The Day When Mother Nature Hit Me* (2014), Music
- *Blue Caprice* (2013), Original Music Composer

## Gallery

- ![Processed with VSCOcam with 4 preset (2014)](https://film.one/media/person/128640/gallery-bcbc7557b810.jpg) Processed with VSCOcam with 4 preset (2014) — Jakub Szestowicki from Warszawa, Poland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Colin_Stetson_%2814740779343%29.jpg/1280px-Colin_Stetson_%2814740779343%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Colin Stetson](https://film.one/media/person/128640/gallery-9356a116bdd8.jpg) Colin Stetson — Tore Sætre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Colin_Stetson_Oslo_Jazzfestival_2023_%28222922%29.jpg/1280px-Colin_Stetson_Oslo_Jazzfestival_2023_%28222922%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Colin Stetson at Sled Island, 2013, the night before Calgary flooded.](https://film.one/media/person/128640/gallery-6834cc3fa38c.jpg) Colin Stetson at Sled Island, 2013, the night before Calgary flooded. — etherbug, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Colin_Stetson_at_Sled_Island_Festival_Calgary%2C_2013..jpg/1280px-Colin_Stetson_at_Sled_Island_Festival_Calgary%2C_2013..jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Colin Stetson with Ex Eye @ Strange Matter. Photo by Craig Zirpolo. (2017)](https://film.one/media/person/128640/gallery-def1be5ef518.jpg) Colin Stetson with Ex Eye @ Strange Matter. Photo by Craig Zirpolo. (2017) — Pippa95, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Craig_Zirpolo.jpg/1280px-Craig_Zirpolo.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Colin Stetson](https://film.one/media/person/128640/gallery-8b8e5f8d21fa.jpg) Colin Stetson — Image via TMDB
- ![Colin Stetson -Andrew (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/128640/gallery-4c8421e608ae.jpg) Colin Stetson -Andrew (2013) — WRBB 104.9 FM, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/P4K_-_Sunday_%2835817463722%29.jpg/1280px-P4K_-_Sunday_%2835817463722%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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