Winner of the Jury Choice Gold Medal for his score of a full-length feature film in the 2004 Park City Film Music Festival and Semi-Finalist in the Filmscoring Competition of the 2004 Moondance International Film Festival, film composer Jeffrey Gold's works have also premiered at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Centres in Cardiff, Wales and in Piccadilly, London, on television in the U.K. and U.S., on radio, and at film festivals in the U.S. His music for Ken Verdoia's Promontory has also premiered on PBS television in the U.S. Educated at the University of Utah and Cambridge University, England, he is a lifetime member of the Cambridge Film and Television Society.

His philosophy on film music is predicated on the marriage of visual music and emotional music, the former of which tends to be more shapeless or ethereal, and the latter, which tends to be rooted in melody or leitmotifs. This tends to create a confluence of seemingly disparate elements into what he calls visual emotions. Additionally, rather than emphasize one unitary emotion, he constructs his music by running multiple (competing or neighboring) emotional threads through a temporal section of a composition, which allows the viewers or listeners to choose for themselves the proportions of the simultaneous emotions (rather than foist it on them), especially if the emotional threads are emotional neighbors; e.g. sadness and melancholy. But all this is an analysis that follows an otherwise instinctual creative process.

Writes Gerald Elias, Associate Concertmaster of the Utah Symphony and First Violin of the Abramyan String Quartet, "I have had the opportunity to listen to the ... 'Elegy: Adagio for Strings' by Jeffrey Gold. This short piece, in the tradition of Barber and Vaughan-Williams is effective and compelling. Mr. Gold's use of rich string sonorities and evocative voice-leading, creating well-timed and poignant dissonances, conveys a mood of simultaneous despair and hope."

Jeffrey is an adjunct faculty member in the department of film and theatre at the Salt Lake Community College. He also has taught screenwriting through the University of Utah's Academic Outreach/Continuing Education Lifelong Learning program.

In 2005 he was invited to participate in the 19th Annual Sundance Institute Independent Producers Conference and the 3rd Annual Sundance Institute Theatre Program/Johnny Mercer Foundation Master Class with composers and performers Melissa Manchester, Jimmy Webb, Michael Rupert, Margaret Whiting, and Charles Strouse.

He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).

Heroes: Ennio Morricone, Georges Delerue, John Williams, John Barry, Edward Elgar, Maurice Jarre, Vangelis, Mark Isham, Stefan Nilsson, Jeff Rona, Hans Zimmer, Dean Korso, Bruno Coulais, Michael Kamen, Charles-Marie Widor, Burkhart Dallwitz, Jerry Goldsmith, John Corigliano, Nino Rota, Trevor Jones, Eric Serra, Gabriel Faure, Bill Conti, Andrea Morricone, Gustav Holst, Samuel Barber, Peter Gabriel, Clannad, Steven Gutheinz, Yves Chamberland, Gabriel Yared, Alaris Jans, Quincy Jones, and more.