Ryan Lott

Ryan Lott is a composer, producer, and performer. In 2007, Ryan founded Son Lux, and in 2014, Son Lux became a trio, both live and on record, with the additions of guitarist-composer Rafiq Bhatia and drummer Ian Chang. Their latest studio release is an album trilogy called Tomorrows, released in full in 2021. As a band, Son Lux scored the 2023 Best Picture Winner Everything Everywhere All at Once (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), which earned them a BAFTA and Academy Award nomination, with a second Academy Award nomination for their end-credit song collaboration with Mitski and David Byrne. He is frequently commissioned by new music ensembles, including eighth blackbird (Lott contributed to their GRAMMY-winning 2015 release Filament), GRAMMY winners Third Coast Percussion, and yMusic, who enlisted Lott to compose their entire 2017 release First. Other recent commissions include an arrangement of "Peace Like A River" for Paul Simon, and a new orchestral work, "The Swift & the Storm," for the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. His feature film scores include Original Music from and Inspired By: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2014), Music From The Motion Picture Paper Towns (2015), and Mean Dreams (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2017), and arrangements for several others, most notably the iconic sci-fi film Looper (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2012).