Julia Piker is an award-winning Ukrainian-American composer, songwriter, and producer whose work spans television, film, and visual media. She is best known for her original score for Netflix’s Penelope, as well as Aka Charlie Sheen. Her music can also be heard in FX’s A Murder at the End of the World, starring Clive Owen and Brit Marling; Amazon’s Outer Range; and Apple TV+’s Smoke.
Julia’s score for Penelope reflects her distinctive ability to blur the boundaries between voice, instrumentation, and sound design, creating a world that feels simultaneously intimate, elemental, and cinematic. Drawing from her background as both a songwriter and composer, she weaves layered vocals, organic instrumentation, and subtle electronic textures into immersive soundscapes. Her music often lives in the space between the familiar and the otherworldly, using the human voice as both a melodic instrument and a textural force.
Her other credits include Netflix’s Pepsi, Where’s My Jet?, produced by Boardwalk Pictures, and Hulu’s The Curse of Von Dutch: A Brand to Die For. Julia has collaborated with Danny Bensi & Saunder Jurriaans for several years, contributing music to critically acclaimed projects including Netflix’s Ozark, Paramount+’s Tulsa King, and the Emmy-nominated Black Rabbit. She has also written dozens of songs for television and film, including Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Big City Adventure, The Loud House Movie, ALVINNN!!! and the Chipmunks, and Monster High.
Julia traces her musical roots to her grandfather, an accomplished musician in the Russian Philharmonic Orchestra. Before focusing fully on film and television scoring, she worked as a staff composer at Pulse Music in New York City, where she scored campaigns for brands including AT&T, Charmin, BMW, IBM, Wendy’s, Hinge, Cox, Adobe, Vanity Fair, and Lexus. Her score for Procter & Gamble’s The Talk won a London International Award for Original Music.
As a self-taught composer, Julia embraces the belief that there are no rules in music. Her work reflects a fluid approach to composition that draws equally from scoring, songwriting, vocal performance, and production. With a deep sensitivity to texture, melody, and atmosphere, she creates music that is emotionally immediate and sonically distinctive. She currently resides in New York.
