John M. Davis is a composer, music editor and sound designer/mixer. A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, he worked as a post-production supervisor on such films as Cry, The Beloved Country; Jane Eyre; Life is Beautiful among many others. His work with composers John Barry, Rolfe Kent, Alexandre Desplat and others led John to pursue a career in film music.
His first commercial score was for the Showtime documentary Breasts, and his first feature film was the Roy Schneider comedy Better Living. At around the same time he started working as a music editor on many prominent films such as Tadpole, The Producers, The Nanny Diaries and many others. He continues to work as a music editor on major motion pictures and television series, and as a mixer on many smaller projects.
An interest in silent films led John to seek performance opportunities whenever possible. He has twice performed at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy, at the Walter Reede Theater at Lincoln Center, the American Museum of the Moving Image, the Museum of Modern Art and other venues.