Hans Zimmer (Hans Florian Zimmer) is a German composer and record producer. Since the 1980s, he has composed music for over 150 films. His works include The Lion King, for which he won Academy Award for Best Original Score in 1994, the Pirates of the Caribbean series, The Thin Red Line, Gladiator, The Last Samurai, […]
Canadian composer Christophe Beck started piano lessons at five, and by eleven he was learning Bee Gees songs by ear and performing with his first-ever band, the unfortunately-named Chris and The Cupcakes. During high school he studied piano, saxophone, and drums, and wrote many tender 80’s love ballads. While studying music at Yale, Beck wrote two […]
David Wingo is an American film composer, known for his score of Jeff Nichols’ awards-winning Take Shelter and most recently, Mud. He has worked with other acclaimed directors such as David Gordon Green, Jared Hess, Craig Zobel, and Todd Rohal.
Robert Glasper (born April 5, 1978, in Houston, Texas) is an American jazz pianist and record producer. His 2012 album Black Radio won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Album at the 55th Grammy Awards. Glasper’s albums are centered around his work as a solo artist, and two bands: The Robert Glasper Trio (on piano […]
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Born and raised in South Africa, Mark came to the USA to pursue a career in film scoring in 1994. His academic life in his native country (Master’s degree in composition) and very active performing career (as a pianist who played with people like Darius Brubeck,Shirley Bassey, Airto Moreira and Ladysmith Black Mambazo) prepared him […]
Paul Hepker (b. Harare, Zimbabwe; 17 December 1967) is a South African composer, musical director, pianist, best known for composing the score (with Mark Kilian) for the film Tsotsi, which won the Academy Award for Foreign Language Film at the 78th Academy Awards in 2005. Hepker and Kilian also wrote the score for Rendition, the Gavin […]
Bear McCreary is an American composer and musician living in Los Angeles, California. He is best known for his work on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica television series and for the TV series Outlander and The Walking Dead.
Born and raised in London, England, surrounded by music from an early age, Felix Erskine realized his immense childhood facility for performance and composition by attending the prestigious Royal College of Music from the age of 11, where he studied Classical Guitar and Composition under the tutelage of leading lights such as Charles Ramirez. After moving on to the Senior […]
Gabriel Yared (born 7 October 1949) is a French-Lebanese composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, his work in France has included the scores for Betty Blue and Camille Claudel. He later began working on English language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella. He won anOscar […]