Callery was born in
Hartford, Connecticut and raised in
Bristol, Rhode Island. He studied at the
New England Conservatory of Music, earning a degree in piano performance in 1987. In 1987, Callery moved to
Los Angeles to work for
New England Digital, the creators of the
Synclavier synthesizer. In 1990, he and
John Farrar scored the
NBC television film,
A Mom for Christmas. Working as a
sound designer on the series
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine also earned him an
Emmy nomination. In 1996, Callery was hired to compose the underscore for the
USA Network series,
La Femme Nikita, which aired for five seasons between 1997 and 2001. Callery next again collaborated with Surnow on the television series
24 from 2001 to 2010. For his work on that series, he received three
Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition For a Series (Dramatic Underscore), in 2003, 2006 and 2010. He also won the 2007 Film & TV Music Awards for Best Score for a Dramatic Television Program and Best Television Theme for his work on the series. In addition to his work on
24, Callery scored the music to the television series
Medium from 2005 to 2010, all the episodes of
Shark, and composed the music for
Bones beginning with its fourth season. In 2011 he scored the music to the miniseries
The Kennedys and
Kiefer Sutherland's webseries
The Confession. In December, 2011, he teamed up with executive producer
Howard Gordon of
24 again, for the television series
Homeland. In 2012, he composed the
theme music for the
CBS television show
Elementary. In 2014, he scored the music to the ninth season of
24,
24: Live Another Day, a special event-series, after a four-year hiatus. In 2015, he scored the music to Marvel's
Jessica Jones on
Netflix, for which he won the 2016 Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Music, which brings his total Emmy wins up to four. ==Discography==