Jackie Andresen is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles, California. Classically trained in violin, she began her training studying under violinist Dorthy Kwon at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music, and is now in her last year studying Music Theory and Composition with a concentration in Screen Scoring under composer and conductor Alba S. Torremocha, film composer Chris Hajian, and composer, arranger, and orchestrator Mark Suozzo. 

She has written music for several short films created by filmmakers and visual artists in both NYU's Tisch School and USC's School of Cinematic Arts, premiering at student film festivals across the United States. In the summer of 2020, she completed a mentorship under film composer Michael A. Levine, and later assisted composer Catherine Joy and her Los Angeles based score preparation and production company Joy Music House, working as an orchestrator and copyist this past summer.

Most recently, along with her colleague Maxim Dybal-Denysenko, Jackie was a recipient of the NYU Steinhardt Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Project grant to pursue the production of an extended string technique based sample library beginning in the spring of 2023. She has been featured on MPATH’s album of Phenomenal Women Composers vol. 13, and is currently composing music for her first documentary feature Ninety Minutes Later, directed by Los Angeles based filmmaker and actress Cyndy Fujikawa. Most recently, she was awarded the NYU Orchestra Residency, her piece premiering in April of 2023.