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Michael Giacchino is an American composer of music for films, television and video games.
Giacchino composed the scores to the television series Lost, Alias and Fringe, the video game series Medal of Honor and Call of Duty and many films such as The Incredibles (2004), Star Trek (2009), Up (2009), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), Jurassic World (2015), Inside Out (2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) and Coco (2017).
For his work on Up he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Score.for "Lost," "Fringe" & "Alias."- Composer
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Bear McCreary is a degreed graduate of the prestigious USC Thornton School of Music (in 'Composition and Recording Arts'). Bear McCreary was one of a small and select group of proteges of the late, many-honored film composer Elmer Bernstein. Although he is now firmly in the mainstream of film composition, many of McCreary's earliest soundtrack-music compositions were for independent motion picture productions.for "Battlestar Galactica," "Da Vinci's Demons," "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D," & "the Walking Dead"- Composer
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Murray Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA six times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006), Doctor Who (2008) and A Very English Scandal (2019). His score for the BAFTA winning film Kiss of Life was awarded the Mozart Prize of the 7th Art by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated five times by the Royal Television Society in categories relating to music for television, winning twice.
Murray has worked extensively with writer/director Russell T Davies on projects such as A Very English Scandal (starring Hugh Grant), Casanova (starring David Tennant), The Second Coming (starring Christopher Eccleston), Cucumber and Queer as Folk, series 1 and 2. He has also scored the C4 period drama The Devil's Whore, the BBC series The Musketeers, BBC Natural History series Life Story, the crime drama Scott & Bailey and wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 hit series Shameless. More recently Murray scored Lookout Point's upcoming 8-part drama Gentleman Jack for BBC One and HBO.
Between 2005 and 2018, Murray served as musical director for the wildly successful re-imagining of the BBC's Doctor Who. In this capacity, he created a new arrangement of the show's theme (originally composed by Ron Grainer) and composed the score for 10 entire series. Murray also created, arranged and orchestrated three special live concerts for the music from Doctor Who. The first, Doctor Who: A Celebration, was played at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff in 2006; the second, the 2008 Doctor Who Prom, was part of the BBC Proms on 24 July 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall in London; the third, the 2010 Doctor Who Prom, was part of the BBC Proms hold in 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall again. In March 2010, Murray's Doctor Who soundtrack entered UK radio station Classic FM's Hall of Fame as that year's second highest new entry.
Gold has scored a number of British and American films, including Death at a Funeral directed by Frank Oz and Mischief Night, directed by Penny Woolcock. Other projects include 2006's film Alien Autopsy and the 2009 drama feature Veronika Decides to Die.
In 2001, his radio play Electricity was given the Imison Award - named after former BBC radio drama script editor Richard Imison - for best new. It subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Playhouse and was performed with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Others of his plays include 50 Revolutions performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre, London in 2000 and Resolution at Battersea Arts Centre in 1994. Gold also wrote the radio play Kafka: The Musical, broadcast on Easter Sunday 2011 on BBC Radio 3, starring David Tennant. It won the 2013 Tinniswood Award for the Best Original Radio Drama.for "Doctor Who" & "Torchwood"- Composer
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Christophe Beck was born in 1968 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is a composer and actor, known for Frozen (2013), Ant-Man (2015) and The Muppets (2011).for "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" & "Angel"- Composer
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Shirô Sagisu was born on 29 August 1957 in Tokyo, Japan. He is a composer, known for Shin Godzilla (2016), Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for Otaku (2020) and Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009).for "Neon Genesis Evangelion"- Composer
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Angelo Badalamenti was born on 22 March 1937 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and actor, known for Mulholland Drive (2001), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) and Lost Highway (1997). He was married to Lonny Irgens. He died on 11 December 2022 in Lincoln Park, New Jersey, USA.for "Twin Peaks"- Composer
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Richard is a BAFTA nominated Film, TV and Games composer. His credits include the hit TV show 'Being Human', martial arts sensation 'Ong-bak' and the critically acclaimed soundtrack for Simon Hunter's 'Mutant Chronicles'. Richard began his composing career writing music for computer games. He has composed music for over 50 action and horror movie trailers including 'The Grudge', 'Brotherhood' and 'Warrior King'. He has scored all of Jake West's cult horror features including 'Doghouse' starring Noel Clarke. Recently he worked as part of the composer team on the critically acclaimed 'Total War: Warhammer 2' and scored Goldfinch Studios thriller 'Await Further Instructions' directed by Johnny Kevorkian.
Richard began his professional music career as a programmer, keyboard player and engineer. His credits include work on tracks by Dominic King ('My Simple Heart'), John Moss ('Culture Club'), 'Talk Talk' and 'Clan of Xymox'. He joined Xymox in 1991 and toured the USA and later engineered and mixed their album 'Metamorphosis'. He met games composer Dave Punshon in 1994 and they have since gone on to compose music together for over 30 computer games.
Richard began composing for film in 1998 when he scored Jake West's cult debut feature 'Razor Blade Smile'. Richard's collaboration with Jake continued with the horror film 'Evil Aliens', which won the Raindance award at the British Independent Film Awards, 2005. In 2002, Richard found a niche writing music for film trailers. He has worked extensively for several labels including the Weinstein Company's Dragon Dynasty. His original trailer music for over 50 feature films including 'Seven Swords' and 'Infernal Affairs'.
Richard scored all five series of the Touchpaper/ BBC smash-hit 'Being Human' for which he was nominated for a BAFTA and a Music and Sound Award for Best TV Soundtrack. He followed this with Touchpaper/ ITV2's comedy/ drama 'Switch'. In 2014, he finished the score for Michael Bartlett's indie horror/drama 'Treehouse', which went straight to number 1 on the UK iTunes horror chart. Richard also writes music for the KPM/ EMI production music label.for "Being Human"- Composer
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Composer of the Emmy-winning show Dexter (2006) and hugely popular video games, Silent Hill and Dishonored, one of Daniel Licht's first experiences as a musician resulted in him hanging out with Miles Davis and playing jazz with Don Cherry in New York City. Licht continued to develop as a musician by playing around the world. In Germany, Holland, and Northern Europe he performed and composed music for theatre and dance companies, then Licht went on to Japan and Indonesia where he participated in Gamelan orchestras on the islands of Java and Bali. These travels broadened Licht's definition of music. You may be surprised to know that knives, duct tape, wine glasses, saws, scissors, and even human bones (!) have been used as instruments and recorded at his studio. It was his good friend and colleague, composer Christopher Young, (Spider-Man 3 (2007)), who beckoned Licht west. Once in Hollywood, Licht began collaborating with directors and producers on a variety of projects such as Stephen Kings thriller Thinner (1996), Ben Stiller's drama Permanent Midnight (1998) and the Bradley Cooper comedy Kitchen Confidential (2005).
His irreverent combinations of musical styles soon earned him a reputation as a wholly original composer and he became the favorite of iconoclastic film-makers. He was asked to score The Winner (1996) for Indie icon Alex Cox, while Sundance Film Festival darling Gregg Araki hired him for Splendor (1999) and Oscar-winner Xavier Koller asked Licht to score Cowboy Up (2001). Clive Barker handpicked Licht to score Hellraiser: Bloodline (1996), and ABC selected Licht to compose music for their sleeper hit Body of Proof (2011). NBC requested Licht to score Deception (2013) and contribute additional music for their hit action-thriller The Blacklist (2013).
Most recently Licht completed two seasons for SundanceTV of their dramatic series The Red Road (2014), starring Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones (2011)) and Martin Henderson (The Ring (2002)). He has recently finished the much anticipated video game Dishonored 2 (2016) and the exciting new series Guilt (2016) for ABC Freeform.for "Dexter"- Composer
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Jim Dooley is a graduate of New York University where he majored in Music Composition. Upon completion of his degree, he moved to Los Angeles to study the art of film composing with such prolific scoring legends as Christopher Young, Elmer Bernstein and Leonard Rosenman. He joined Media Ventures (now Remote Control Productions) in 1999 and began collaboration with the world-renowned Hans Zimmer both as his Chief Technical Engineer on Gladiator and as an additional composer, arranger and orchestrator on such notable features as The Da Vinci Code, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Ring, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Ridley Scott's Hannibal and Black Hawk Down. James also worked on several animated feature scores such as Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Madagascar 1 and 2, its franchise spin-off penguins short A Christmas Caper and the academy-award winning Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
In terms of solo ventures, Dooley's most ambitious projects to date have been scoring all episodes of the critically-acclaimed ABC series Pushing Daisies for which he has received an Emmy Award, an original score to Simon West's remake of the box-office record breaking, cult-classic-thriller When a Stranger Calls, and composing the complex, interactive scores for best-selling videogame titles such as SOCOM 3: U.S. Navy Seals and U.S. Navy Seals: Combined Assault. He also fully scored the German animated release Urmel aus dem Eis (Impy's Island), DreamWorks Animation's musically acclaimed short First Flight, and worked with director Fred Savage on the theatrical sequel Daddy Day Camp. Jim has also provided score for episodes of ABC television series, What About Brian, and has recently completed work on such projects as Little Mermaid 3: Ariel's Beginning, a sequel to Urmel aus dem, and his first amusement park attraction score for the Simpsons ride at Universal Studios.
Dooley's music can also be heard in the theatrical trailers for Elf, Man on Fire, the Da Vinci Code, Harry Potter: the Goblet of Fire, and Spiderman 3. Known for his interest and expertise in many mediums and genres, other projects include many well known commercial spots, sports programming ventures, and the ground-breaking documentary Mars Underground, for which he donated proceeds to the Red Cross national disaster relief effort.for "Pushing Daisies" & "Wilfred"- Composer
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Ludwig Göransson is a Swedish composer known for composing Black Panther, the Creed films, Venom, Fruitvale Station, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Turning Red, New Girl, Community, Top Five, Central Intelligence, 30 Minutes or Less and Tenet. He had a son from Serena McKinney, who was married to him since 2018.for "Community"- Composer
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Ramin Djawadi is an Iranian-German film score composer known for composing the hit HBO series Game of Thrones and the Marvel films Blade: Trinity, Iron Man and Eternals. He also composed Clash of the Titans, A Wrinkle in Time, Pacific Rim, Westworld, Gears of War 4 and 5, Medal of Honor, Open Season 1 and 2, Jack Ryan and Warcraft. He won two Emmy Awards for Game of Thrones.for "Game of Thrones" & "Person of Interest"- Composer
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Greg Edmonson is known for Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009), Cop Rock (1990) and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (2011).for "Firefly"- Composer
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Mark Snow became a good friend with Michael Kamen while they were studying music at New York's Art and Music High School. After graduation, they became roommates at Juilliard (an elite music school). After studying at Juilliard, he became very fond of pop music. He, Michael Kamen and 3 others formed the New York Rock'n'Roll ensemble. The band was signed to Atlantic Records and Mark toured and recorded with them for 5 years. His interest then turned in writing film and television scores. He began to write and relocated to Los Angeles in 1974. Mark's musical composition career began in 1975 with the TV series, Starsky and Hutch (1975), and has taken off since then. However, he is best known for his work on The X-Files (1993) and Millennium (1996), he has made music for many other programs. He took piano lessons at age ten and, by the time he was twenty, he played both oboe and percussion.for "the X-files," "Smallville" & "Millennium."- Composer
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Sean Callery was born in 1964 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He is a composer, known for 24 (2001), Jessica Jones (2015) and Star Trek: Generations (1994).for "Homeland" and "24"