{"key":"39028","name":"Bruce Broughton","bio":"Bruce Broughton (born March 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American composer, who writes the music in every medium, from theatrical releases and television feature films to concert tours and computer games. He is one of the most versatile composers working today.His first major film score, for the Lawrence Kasdan western Silverado, brought him an Oscar nomination. His very next project, a classically styled score for Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes, earned a Grammy nomination for the soundtrack album.With over 20 Emmy nominations, Broughton has received a record 10, most recently for HBO's Warm Springs. He's also won Emmys for Eloise at Christmastime; Eloise at The Plaza; Glory & Honor; O Pioneers!; Tiny Toon Adventures Theme Song; The First Olympics, Athens 1896, Part I; Dallas: Ewing Blues; Dallas: The Letter; and Buck Rogers: The Satyr.Major motion picture credits include Lost in Space; Tombstone; Miracle on 34th Street;Carried Away; Baby's Day Out; The Presidio; Narrow Margin; Harry and The Hendersons; Krippendorf's Tribe; Honey, I Blew Up The Kid; The Boy Who Could Fly; the Disney animated features, The Rescuers Down Under and Bambi II, and the two Homeward Bound adventures. He conducted and supervised the recording of Gershwin's \"Rhapsody In Blue\" for Fantasia 2000.Numerous TV credits include the main titles for JAG, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Dinosaurs, as well as scores for Amazing Stories, Quincy, and How The West Was Won. Movies for television include Lucy, Bobbie's Girl, and O Pioneers!; and the miniseries Roughing It, The Blue and the Gray, and the Emmy-nominated True Women.His score for Heart of Darkness was the first orchestral score composed for a video game.He has also penned many scores for Disney attractions such as: The Timekeeper, Canada, Ellen's Energy Adventure\u2026.An accomplished composer of concert music, Broughton has conducted and recorded numerous original works, including \"Mixed Elements,\" commissioned by and premiered at the Sunflower Music Festival, \"Modular Music,\" composed for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; \"The Magic Horn,\" commissioned jointly by the Chicago, Seattle and National Symphonies for the Magic Circle Mime Company; \"Excursions,\" commissioned and premiered by The United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C.; \"Fanfares, Marches, Hymns and Finale,\" commissioned by The Bay Brass; \"English Music\" for Horn and Strings; \"And on the Sixth Day\" for oboe and orchestra; \"Tyvek Wood,\" commissioned by the Debussy Trio; a piccolo concerto; a tuba concerto; several solo works for winds; numerous chamber works, and the list goes on.As a conductor, his recordings of Mikl\u00f3s R\u00f3zsa's Ivanhoe and Julius Caesar for Intrada records, performed by the Sinfonia of London shortly before the composer's death, have received rave reviews, as has his recording of Bernard Herrmann's riveting score for Jason and the Argonauts.Broughton is a board member of ASCAP, a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and past president of The Society of Composers and Lyricists. He has taught film composition in the Advanced Film Music Studies program at USC and is a frequent lecturer at UCLA.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/39028_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"4769","name":"Christopher Young","bio":"Christopher Young (b. 1957) is an award-winning composer of music for film and television.Born on 28th April 1957 in Redbank, New Jersey, Young graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music, and then did postgraduate work at North Texas State University. In 1980 he moved to Los Angeles. A jazz drummer at first, hearing some of Bernard Herrmann's works convinced him to be a film composer. At the UCLA Film School, he studied under David Raksin.He composed the scores to more than seventy films, including Hellraiser, Swordfish, The Shipping News, and Species.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/4769_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"38952","name":"John Ottman","bio":"John Ottman (born July 6, 1964 in San Diego, California) is an American film editor, composer and director.He is best known for his collaborations with film director Bryan Singer, editing and composing the scores for The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil, X2: X-Men United, Superman Returns, and most recently, X-Men: Days of Future Past. He also directed the film Urban Legends: Final Cut.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/38952_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"39062","name":"Randy Edelman","bio":"Randy Edelman (born June 10, 1947) is a notable film and television score composer born in Paterson, New Jersey. Edelman has composed many memorable soundtracks of the last twenty years, including \"Gettysburg\", \"Last of the Mohicans\" and \"Dragonheart\".Edelman attended the Cincinnati Music Conservatory, before heading to New York where he played piano in Broadway pit orchestras. He produced several solo albums of songs (some of which were later recorded by The Carpenters (\"I Can't Make Music\"), Barry Manilow, Olivia Newton-John and others) before moving to Los Angeles. It was there where Edelman started to work in TV and film scoring. In the mid 1980s, Edelman wrote the theme to, and scored many episodes of MacGyver, a popular television series starring Richard Dean Anderson.During the 80s and early 90s he also collaborated with Ivan Reitman producing scores for several of his comedies including \"Ghostbusters II\", \"Twins\", \"Angels in the Outfield\", and \"Kindergarten Cop\". While some of the films scored by Edelman were not commercial successes, the music was often reused elsewhere. Themes he wrote for \"Dragonheart\", \"Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story\", \"Gettysburg\" and other films have been widely used in TV advertising and film trailers.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/39062_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"4760","name":"Marco Beltrami","bio":"Marco Beltrami (born October 7, 1968) is an American film composer. Beltrami was born and grew up in Long Island, New York, United States, son of an Italian immigrant from the small town of Fornero, Italy.He graduated from Brown University, spent some time in Venice working with the eminent classical composer Luigi Nono, studied at the Yale School of Music upon his return to the USA, and then moved west to the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied under Jerry Goldsmith.A few classical commissions and USC student films notwithstanding, Beltrami scored his first movie feature in 1994, the thriller Death Match for director Joe Coppolletta, and reached a higher level of public acclaim in 1996 when he wrote the score for Wes Craven's smash hit shocker Scream. Since then, Beltrami has become firmly entrenched as a composer of choice for the horror\/thriller genre, with the Scream sequels and hit movies such as Mimic (1997), The Faculty (1998), Dracula 2000 (2000), The Watcher (2000), Angel Eyes (2001), Resident Evil (2002), which he co-composed with Marilyn Manson), Blade 2 (2002), Underworld (2003), Hellboy (2004), I, Robot (2004), and Underworld: Evolution (2006) featuring in prominently his resume. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his touching score for the film David and Lisa in 1998, indicating a desire to spread his musical wings beyond the bounds of his genre pigeonholing, and holds the enviable position of being one of the most exciting young film composers working in Hollywood today.Beltrami's signature style is based around highly percussive texture. He often employs both traditional percussive instruments like bass drums, as well as violins and brass instruments, forming layers of hits and stabs. This style has earned him the reputation of being the go-to composer for horror and action films.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/4760_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"39039","name":"Nick Glennie-Smith","bio":"Nick Glennie-Smith (born 3 October 1951) is an English film score composer whose most prominent work is an collaboration with Hans Zimmer on the score to the 1996 action film The Rock, the 2006 historical movie Children of Glory and the 1993 drama Point of No Return. Glennie-Smith has also written the scores for the films Home Alone 3, The Man in the Iron Mask, We Were Soldiers, Secretariat, and the score for the Disney animated film The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Lauras Stern, Der kleine Eisb\u00e4r 2 - Die geheimnisvolle Insel and A Sound of Thunder.lennie-Smith was born in London. In 1975, he started his musical career with the band Wally, performing keyboards on their second album, Valley Gardens. And in 1980, He played keyboards on Leo Sayer's album Living in a Fantasy. And again in 1980, he started recording and touring with Cliff Richard, appearing on three albums, I'm No Hero (synthesizer), Wired for Sound (engineer, piano on one song), and The Rock Connection (synthesizer on one song).Glennie-Smith is also known for his contributions to Roger Daltrey's solo albums, Under a Raging Moon, and Can't Wait to See the Movie, and Paul McCartney's solo albums Press to Play, and Flowers in the Dirt.He has also worked with many other artists including Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Elvis Costello, Pharrell Williams, Nik Kershaw, Duane Eddy, Katrina & the Waves, The Adventures.Glennie-Smith is a part of Hans Zimmer's film score company Remote Control Productions, for which he has conducted the soundtracks such as The Simpsons Movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, X-Men: First Class and Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. Glennie-Smith is also known as the master composer of the music in the French theme park le Puy du Fou. He also accompanied Zimmer on the score for Man of Steel. He also had a brief collaboration with the former Pink Floyd bassist, Roger Waters, his first was on the 1986 film When the Wind Blows, then some keyboard overdubbing for Waters' 1987 Radio K.A.O.S. album (namely the song \"The Powers that Be\"), and finally - performing at the 1990 concert \"The Wall Live in Berlin\" as a keyboardist alongside Peter Wood. He also toured in the 1980s with Cliff Richard, again playing keyboards. In 1987, he was responsible, with producer Vic Coppersmith-Heaven and singer Kenny Young, for the album Transmissions under the group name Gentlemen Without Weapons.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/39039_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"4762","name":"John Debney","bio":"Academy award nominated John Debney (born in Burbank, California, United States, 18 August 1956) is considered one of the most sought after composers in Hollywood. His unique ability to create memorable work across a variety of genres, as well as his reputation for being remarkably collaborative, have made him the first choice of top level producers and directors. Debney combines his classical training and a strong knowledge of contemporary sounds to easily adapt to any assignment.Debney's career seemed almost destined for Hollywood. The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney, John grew up in nearby Glendale, Calif. where he began guitar lessons at age six and played in rock bands in college. Debney earned his B.A. degree in Music Composition from the California Institute of Arts (1979). After college, Debney's professional entry into the business came from television composing legend Mike Post (Magnum P.I., The Rockford Files, Law and Order) who gave the young composer his start. Debney furthered his hands-on training by working with Hanna-Barbera composer Hoyt Curtin. With this experience under his belt, Debney went on to score television projects as diverse as Star Trek: The Next Generation, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo and Sea Quest DSV, for which he won an Emmy for Best Main Title. In the early 1990s, Debney began to score films for indie projects. In 1993 he secured his first studio feature, the Disney comedy Hocus Pocus starring Bette Midler.Debney has proven his versatility with films ranging from blockbuster comedies such as Elf, Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty, action adventures like The Scorpion King and Spy Kids (1 & 2) to dramatic features including I Know What You Did Last Summer and Sin City. Although Debney had built an industry reputation as a talented composer, it was in 2004 that the rest of the world discovered him. Blending symphonic orchestra, a wide range of world instruments and the beauty of the human voice, Debney composed the landmark score for The Passion of the Christ. Strong in his faith, Debney was enticed by the idea of working on a project that held deep, spiritual meaning for him. The Passion of the Christ became one of the top ten box-office grossing films of all time, and his emotional score for the film connected with viewers and listeners and debuted on Billboard's charts at #1 on the Soundtrack and Christian Album charts and #19 on the Billboard Top 200. The record was certified gold by the RIAA and won the Dove award for Best Instrumental Album. The score was nominated for an Oscar in 2005. In July 2005, fresh off his success with The Passion of the Christ, he premiered The Passion of the Christ Symphony in Rome, Italy. The performance featured an 83-person choir and a 96-piece orchestra, and included special guest vocalist Lisbeth Scott and woodwind soloist Pedro Eustache, plus solo musicians from both the film and the classical worlds. The symphony was a success with the audience erupting into a 15-minute standing ovation catapulting Debney's success not just in Hollywood but worldwide.For his most recent scores, Debney has enlisted world-renowned musicians, including violin virtuoso Joshua Bell on Dreamworks' score for Dreamer and trumpet legend Arturo Sandoval on the upcoming OutKast musical Idlewild. His upcoming projects include Sin City 2 & 3 starring female box-office powerhouses Jessica Alba and Rosario Dawson, Evan Almighty, starring Steve Carrel and Morgan Freeman and animated feature Ant Bully. In the tradition of classical composers, John Debney enjoys conducting his own work. \"A big part of the joy in what I do is that I consider it an honor to stand in front of live musicians and have the opportunity to hear my music played by these talented people.\" In addition to conducting some of the world's greatest orchestras performing his original works, Debney also conducted the Royal Scottish National Orchestra on a series of classic film scores for Varese Sarabande Records. He has been celebrated for incorporating a myriad of musical styles and techniques into his work, from contemporary beats to ancient instrumentation.Only in his forties, Debney received ASCAP's prestigious Henry Mancini Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. As director Robert Rodriguez perfectly described it, \"It's not the years, it's the mileage\".","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/4762_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"4765","name":"Mark Mancina","bio":"Mark Mancina (born March 9, 1957 in Santa Monica, California) is a composer, primarily for Hollywood soundtracks, such as his collaboration with Trevor Rabin on the soundtrack for Con Air. He arranged many of the songs behind Disney's The Lion King (while Hans Zimmer wrote the orchestral score with Lebo M for the African chants) including the Broadway musical. He also notably composed the score for the thriller Twister (1996) as well as the blockbuster action flick Speed (1994).Mancina has also been associated with a number of progressive rock projects. He toured with Rabin in support of Rabin's Can't Look Away album and then went on to produce tracks on the Yes album Union. He has also worked with Emerson Lake & Palmer.He is known to be influenced by the Beatles, favoring their early years.Mancina also composed the music for the popular 2005-2006 anime TV series BLOOD+ alongside Hans Zimmer.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/4765_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"4759","name":"Trevor Jones","bio":"Trevor Alfred Charles Jones (born March 23, 1949 in Cape Town, South Africa) is an orchestral film score composer. He is known for his work on Excalibur (1981) The Dark Crystal (1982) Labyrinth (1986 with David Bowie) Angel Heart (1987) The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Cliffhanger (1993) Dark City (1998) Desperate Measures\/The Mighty (1998) From Hell (2001) Dinotopia (2002) Loch Ness\/Aegis (2005) and many more.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/4759_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"4733","name":"Alan Silvestri","bio":"Alan Anthony Silvestri (born March 26, 1950) is an American composer and conductor who works primarily in film and television. He is best known for his frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis, including composing major hit films such as the Back to the Future trilogy and Forrest Gump, as well as the superhero films Captain America: The First Avenger and Marvel's The Avengers.Silvestri grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey and attended Teaneck High School. He went to Berklee College of Music for 2 years and is of Italian descent.Silvestri started his film\/television composing career in 1972 at age 21, composing the score for the low-budget action film The Doberman Gang.From 1977 to 1983, Silvestri served as the main composer for the TV show CHiPs, writing music for 109 of the show's 139 episodes.Silvestri met director Robert Zemeckis when the two worked together on Zemeckis's 1984 film Romancing the Stone. Since then, Silvestri has composed the music for all of Zemeckis's movies, including the Back to the Future trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Death Becomes Her (1992), Forrest Gump (1994), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), The Polar Express (2004), Beowulf (2007), A Christmas Carol (2009), and Flight (2012).Silvestri is also known for his work on Predator (1987) and Predator 2 (1990), both of which are considered preeminent examples of action\/science fiction film scores. Since 2001, Silvestri has also collaborated regularly with director Stephen Sommers, scoring the films The Mummy Returns in 2001, Van Helsing in 2004, and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in 2009. His most recent work includes Captain America: The First Avenger in 2011, The Avengers in 2012 and The Croods in 2013.Silvestri has also composed music for television shows, including T.J. Hooker (one episode), Starsky & Hutch (three episodes), Tales From The Crypt (seven episodes) and Manimal (five episodes).In 2013, the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps used portions of the theme from The Abyss as the ballad in their 2013 Drum Corps International World Championship-winning show \"E=MC2\".On 31 January 2014, it was announced that a stage musical adaptation of Back to the Future was in production. The show, which is being co-written by original writers Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, is expected to be performed in 2015, on the 30th anniversary year of the film. Silvestri will team up with Glen Ballard to compose a new score, with the addition of original songs from the film, including \"The Power of Love\", \"Johnny B. Goode\", \"Earth Angel\" and \"Mr. Sandman\".Silvestri owns a vineyard, Silvestri Vineyards, located in Carmel Valley, California.Silvestri has received two Academy Award nominations, one for Best Original Score for Forrest Gump (1994) and one for Best Original Song for \"Believe\" on The Polar Express soundtrack. He also received two Golden Globe nominations: Best Score for Forrest Gump and Best Song for The Polar Express.He has also received four Grammy Award nominations, winning two awards \u2013 Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, for \"Believe\" from The Polar Express in 2004 and Best Instrumental Composition, for \"Cast Away End Credits\" from Cast Away in 2002. His other nomination was for Best Soundtrack Album, for Back to the Future. During the 2005 Grammys, Josh Groban performed \"Believe.\"He has won the Saturn Award for Best Music three times, for his scores for Predator (1987), Back to the Future Part III (1989\/90) and Van Helsing (2004).On September 23, 2011, he was awarded with the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award by the City of Vienna at the yearly film music gala concert Hollywood in Vienna.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/4733_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}