Jon Ehrlich

Jon Ehrlich is a three-time Emmy-nominated TV and film composer. His primetime Emmy nominations in the Music Composition for a Series category came in recognition for his work on House, M.D., starring Hugh Laurie, The Agency, starring Beau Bridges, and Roar, starring Heath Ledger. His score for Ask Me Anything, starring Martin Sheen, won Best Music in a Feature Film at the Nashville Film Festival.

In 2025 he received an International Film Music Critics Association nomination alongside Rachel Portman recognizing their critically acclaimed score for Hulu’s Holocaust drama limited series, We Were the Lucky Ones, from director Tommy Kail and writer Erica Lipez, starring Logan Lerman and Joey King. The score has been singled out in reviews such as IndieWire’s The Best TV Scores of 2024: “The music here is wise enough not to try to be more intense than the events that the Kurc family goes through over the course of the Hulu limited series. Instead, the score is often a quiet, insistent source of strength and emotional catharsis that the characters cannot allow themselves to show but that we get to feel. Portman and Ehrlich’s work transitions from being as wistful and painful as memories to being as relentless as whatever inner fortitude helps the characters survive — and back again. The result is a musical experience that matches the poignancy of the series.”

Other notable credits include: Amazon’s Goliath, from director Lawrence Trilling, starring Billy Bob Thornton, William Hurt, Dennis Quaid, and J.K. Simmons; The Resident, starring Matt Czuchry; Parenthood, created by Jason Katims, starring Peter Krause, Lauren Graham, Dax Shepard, and Craig T. Nelson; About a Boy, created by Jason Katims, starring Minnie Driver; The Slap, developed by Walter Parkes, directed by Lisa Cholodenko, starring Brian Cox, Lucas Hedges, Peter Sarsgaard, and Uma Thurman; Life, starring Damian Lewis; White Collar, starring Matt Bomer; Graceland, starring Aaron Tveit; Invasion, created by Shaun Cassidy; Pitch, created by Dan Fogelman and Rick Singer; Karen Sisco, created by Elmore Leonard; The Guardian, starring Simon Baker; Golden Globe Award-winning Party of Five, starring Neve Campbell and Scott Wolf; and, Time of Your Life, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jennifer Garner.

Ehrlich was born in New York City, and grew up in Brooklyn and New Jersey. He studied music and theater as an undergraduate at Yale University, where he wrote two musicals and graduated as a Scholar of the House. He furthered his studies in film scoring at the USC Screen Scoring Program, studying with Jerry Goldsmith, David Raksin, and Buddy Baker. Ehrlich began his career performing on Broadway and writing musicals, and started at Warner Bros. Feature Animation, writing a musical film titled The Jester with collaborator Stephen Lloyd.

Jon is also a founder of the software company Qwire.