Franky Rousseau is a producer, arranger, and composer based in New York City.

Born in 1989 in Montréal, he trained as a guitarist at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. His notable producing credits include Fred Hersch’s Breath by Breath and Emma Frank’s Interiors. He has written and conducted for ensembles including the Reykjavík Big Band, l’Orchestre National de Jazz de Montréal, the Munich-based Jazzrausch Big Band, and the Tokyo-based Keio Light Music Society, collaborating with artists such as Aaron Parks and Arthur Hnatek.

He has contributed in various capacities to the work of Chris Thile, Nico Muhly, Philip Glass, Jon Batiste, Phoebe Bridgers, Kelsey Lu, and Gabriel Kahane, among others. He served as house arranger and chart-maker for the final two seasons of American Public Media's Live From Here, and currently holds the same role for Audible's The Energy Curfew Music Hour, hosted by Chris Thile and Punch Brothers. He has worked on various orchestral projects involving the music of Andrew Bird, Jónsi, and Rhiannon Giddens. He has also contributed arrangements to television series and films for Apple TV+, HBO, and Netflix.

As a composer, he released Hope in 2012, a piece written for pianist Austin Peralta. With Dominic Mekky, he co-wrote April,  a multimedia music drama about a singer in her early thirties facing irreversible hearing loss and the emotional fallout in her strained relationships. Franky and Dominic also arranged Kaïa Kater's Strange Medicine, which won the Juno Award for "Best Contemporary Roots Album" in 2025.

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rousseau.franky at gmail.com