JOURNALIST • AUTHOR • FILM MUSIC EVANGELIST

About Tim

Tim Greiving is an arts journalist and historian in Los Angeles who specializes in film music. He regularly writes for the Los Angeles Timesand has contributed stories and interviews to NPR, the Washington Post, the New York TimesCriterionVarietyThe RingerLos Angeles Magazine, and Vulture. He has written program notes for the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Royal Albert Hall, and liner notes for more than a hundred soundtrack albums. He contributes to the Visual History Program for the Academy, and teaches film music history and the music of John Williams at the University of Southern California.

He also moderates panels and Q&As, and has gabbed on stage (or Zoom) with the likes of Greta Gerwig, Jay-Z, Hans Zimmer, Denis Villeneuve, Hildur Guðnadóttir, John David Washington, Ludwig Göransson, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodriguez, Questlove, Nicholas Britell, Adam Sandler, Josh and Benny Safdie, and Sean Astin.

tim at timgreiving dot com