Sean Callery

Sean Callery
Callery at the 2015 PaleyFest
Born	1964 (age 52–53) Hartford, Connecticut
Nationality	American
Occupation	Composer

Sean Callery (born 1964) is a film and television composer best known as the composer for the action/drama 24, a TV series for which he also composed three soundtracks. The first soundtrack, containing music from the first three seasons was released on December 7, 2004. The second soundtrack, containing music from the fourth and fifth seasons was on released on November 14, 2006. The third soundtrack contained all the music composed for the 24 television movie, 24: Redemption. Other projects include the 2004 James Bond video game, Everything or Nothing and the television series La Femme Nikita and Homeland. He also composed the music for 24: The Game, based on the series, which was created for Sony's PlayStation 2 game console and 24: Legacy, a spin-off/reboot of the original series.

Callery was born in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Bristol, Rhode Island. He studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, earning a degree in piano performance in 1987. In 1987, Callery moved to Los Angeles to work for New England Digital, the creators of the Synclavier synthesizer.

In 1990, he and John Farrar scored the NBC TV movie, A Mom for Christmas. Working as a sound designer on the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine also earned him an Emmy nomination. In 1996, Callery was hired to compose the underscore for the USA Network series, La Femme Nikita, which aired for five seasons between 1997 and 2001.