Niv Toar
Niv Toar
Composer. Noise Maker.
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ABOUT
Niv is a composer, music producer, and trumpet player based in Los Angeles. He was recently a composer on iCarly and The Really Loud House for Paramount+. Some previous shows he has composed music for are: Pivoting (Fox), Dr. Ken (ABC), All That (Nickelodeon), Alexa & Katie (Netflix), Prince of Peoria (Netflix), and more.
Niv started his composing journey as an assistant to renowned composer Gabriel Mann, with whom he has worked closely on many television shows, composing, arranging, and producing music for: Modern Family (Fox), A Million Little Things (ABC), High School Musical (Disney+), Uncoupled (Netflix), Rosewood (Fox), and more. Prior to working with Gabriel, Niv interned with prolific composer and orchestrator William Ross (Barbra Streisand, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games).
As a trumpet player, Niv has performed, recorded, and toured with many major artists in the world including: Quincy Jones, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, India Arie, Magic, The Idan Raichel Project, Gloria Trevi, and David Broza. Niv has also worked as an arranger with many of Israel's biggest artists.
Niv started on his musical path at only eight years of age, playing classical trumpet at the local conservatory. At eleven, he performed his first classical solos with a 70-piece orchestra. He began his jazz education at the prestigious “Thelma Yellin High School for the Arts” in Israel, where he graduated with honors from the jazz department. During his senior year of high school, Niv toured with the school’s “Big Band” in the US. During that tour, he was spotted by Berklee College of Music staff and was awarded a full college scholarship.
At Berklee, Niv received the "Berklee College of Music Art Farmer Award” from the brass department. In '07, he was one of a select group of musicians who were chosen to attend a workshop with saxophonist Paquito D’rivera (a Multi Grammy Award Winner) at Carnegie Hall, NY. He was also a member of "La Timbistica", a Latin Jazz group that won the "Downbeat Magazine Student Music Award" for “Best Jazz Band of 2008”. They performed at numerous Jazz festivals in the US and Europe. In '08, Niv returned to Israel to serve in the IDF as an arranger and music producer.
With a trumpet in hand since age eight, the journey has been anything but quiet.
Composer Credits
• The Really Loud House - Nickelodeon
• iCarly - Nickelodeon
• Pivoting - Fox
• Group Chat - Nickelodeon
• All That - Nickelodeon
• Alexa & Katie - Netflix
• Prince of Peoria - Netflix
• School of Rock - Nickelodeon
• Dr. Ken - ABC
Additional Music Credits
• A Million Little Things - ABC
• Modern Family - ABC
• The Mayor - ABC
• The Kicks - Amazon
• 48 Hours - CBS
• 9JKL - CBS
• Carol’s Second Act - CBS
• FAM - CBS
• The McCarthy’s - CBS
• The Unicorn - CBS
• Better Nate Than Ever (Film) - Disney
• High School Musical: The Series - Disney
• Legend of the Three Caballeros - Disney
• Rosewood - Fox
• Emily In Paris - Netflix
• Marry Happy Whatever - Netflix
• Uncoupled - Netflix
• Snow Day (Film) - Nickelodeon
• The J Team (Film) - Paramount+
• The Little Couple - TLC