Nami Melumad

Naama "Nami" Melumad (; born December 5, 1988) is an Israeli-Dutch film and television composer based in Los Angeles. She is best known for her work on the HBO Max film "An American Pickle", the Amazon TV series "Absentia", the ' short "Q&A", the virtual reality video game and the upcoming ' animated series. 
Early life and career.
Nami was born and raised in Ramat Gan, Israel. She attended Blich High School where she majored in music theory, composition, flute performance, and chemistry. While at school, she began developing an interest in film scoring and also wrote the score for a children's theatre play. She played classical piano, flute and guitar. Upon completing her military service in the Israel Defense Forces, Nami was accepted directly to the sophomore year at the Cross-Disciplinary Composition Division of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance and earned a Bachelor of Music in composition. Among her teachers were Ioseb Bardanashvili, Michael Wolpe, and Rafi Kadishzon. She composed mainly for documentary films, short-form narratives, commercials and stage. Nami moved to Los Angeles in 2014 to attend the graduate program in scoring for motion pictures and television (previously known as SMPTV) at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
Nami scored over 130 projects, including feature films, TV series, short films and more. She is the first woman to score a "Star Trek" episode ("Q&A") and won several awards for her work including the Hollywood Music in Media Awards for Passage (2018), Best Short Score at Fimucité (2017) out 908 scores, and The Marshall Hawkins Award-Best Original Score at Idyllwild Festival of Cinema (2018). Her score for Over the Wall earned her a nomination at the XIV Jerry Goldsmith Awards (2019).
She was one of the 12 composers around the world to make the cut for acclaimed ASCAP 2016 film scoring workshop with composer Richard Bellis. In October 2016 her score to "Mindgame" was performed live-to-picture by the Helix Collective Ensemble, at the Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. In May 2017 her work "New Zealand's Guide To Tessering" was performed by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra. As an orchestrator, she worked on "The Little Mermaid" and Logic's album "Everybody".
Nami is a member of Women in Film (Los Angeles), a board member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers, and a voting member of the Television Academy.
Selected discography.
As Composer