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name: "Jonathan Kirkscey"
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updated: "2026-09-17T05:28:41.600458+00:00"
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# Jonathan Kirkscey

Composer.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3023287/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1554038

## Biography

Jonathan Kirkscey is an American composer, producer, cellist and guitarist based in Memphis. He performs regularly with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra and is a founding member of the contemporary classical chamber ensemble Blueshift Ensemble.

As a film composer, Kirkscey scored the documentaries *Won't You Be My Neighbor?* (2018), directed by Morgan Neville, and *Best of Enemies* (2015), directed by Neville and Robert Gordon. His score for the latter received the International Documentary Association award for best original music in a documentary feature. Other feature scores include *Cigarette Girl* (2009), *The Poor and Hungry* (2000) and *Only Child* (2015). He has also composed for Netflix series including *Chelsea Does* and *Abstract: The Art of Design*.

*Sources: jonathankirkscey.com, imdb.com, symphony.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Won't You Be My Neighbor?* (2018), Fi1m 80, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/wont-you-be-my-neighbor.md)

## Also known for

- *Best of Enemies* (2015), Original Music Composer

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