Jodie Landau

Jodie Landau is a composer, vocalist, and percussionist and is a member of the renowned Icelandic record label Bedroom Community, the acclaimed modern music collective, Wild Up, and the Grammy-winning vocal band Roomful of Teeth. His music combines elements of chamber music, rock, and jazz for live performance, film, theater, opera, and dance. On stage, Jodie can be found singing amidst a sea of dancers, conducting audience members as he teaches them to sing a song on the spot, portraying a disembodied heart donor in Valgeir Sigurðsson’s opera “We Are In Time”, playing handmade microtonal glass bells by Meara O’Reilly, or singing original music and covers while playing vibraphone, marimba, keyboards, and harpejji on his own or surrounded by various ensembles of singers and instrumentalists.

Jodie’s debut album with Wild Up, “you of all things” featured the Icelandic female choir Graduale Nobili. Jodie has performed with Los Angeles Master Chorale, LA Phil, NY Phil, The Scottish Ensemble, ICKAmsterdam / Ballet National de Marseille, Ate9 dANCE cOMPANY; for whom he composed the score to their “mouth to mouth”, The Industry, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, as well as artists like Robin Pecknold, serpentwithfeet, Jherek Bischoff, Miya Folick, Ellen Reid, Jacob Cooper, Nadia Sirota, Nico Muhly, Daniel Bjarnason, Dirty Projectors, and more. He’s recorded with Caroline Shaw, Amanda Palmer, Rebekka Karijord, Vampire Weekend, and The Weeknd. His singing can be heard on Simon Franglen’s scores for “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “Avatar: Fire and Ash”. Jodie worked as lead copyist, orchestrator, conductor and performer on David Longstreth’s score for “The Legend of Ochi” and conducted/contracted the choir and sang on Ludwig Göransson's score for "The Odyssey".

In March of 2024 at National Sawdust in NY, Jodie premiered “Performance of Self” a one person show, quasi-cabaret/confessional/music theater piece created, composed and performed by Jodie, produced and commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects that Opera Wire called “The sort of medicinal healing that only music can provide.” The Los Angeles premiere took place at REDCAT in May of 2026, directed by Diana Wyenn.

Currently, Jodie is collaborating with composer/producer William Brittelle on the formation of a new retro-future-avante-synth-pop band with harp, mallets, and guzheng, with Jodie as music director and lead vocalist.