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City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech: ''Filharmonici města Prahy'') is a classical orchestra, predominantly composed of Czech classical, jazz and guest musicians. The history of the orchestra goes back to the Film Symphony Orchestra (FISYO), which was founded shortly after World War II, in 1947 as the in-house orchestra for the huge Barrandov Film Studios. After separating and fully privatized it initially performed under the name ''Czech Symphony Orchestra'', but had problems with unauthorized use of the name by other Czech ensembles for themselves. Finally in 1992, after the Velvet Revolution, music producer James Fitzpatrick came up with its current name. The orchestra is drawn from musicians of the State Opera and the Czech National Theatre, and most of its concerts take place at the opera house. Recording The orchestra plays and records music for every type of orchestral project, including popular music, films, television series or video games, and for dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czech Language
Czech ( ; ), historically known as Bohemian ( ; ), is a West Slavic language of the Czech–Slovak group, written in Latin script. Spoken by over 12 million people including second language speakers, it serves as the official language of the Czech Republic. Czech is closely related to Slovak, to the point of high mutual intelligibility, as well as to Polish to a lesser degree. Czech is a fusional language with a rich system of morphology and relatively flexible word order. Its vocabulary has been extensively influenced by Latin and German. The Czech–Slovak group developed within West Slavic in the high medieval period, and the standardization of Czech and Slovak within the Czech–Slovak dialect continuum emerged in the early modern period. In the later 18th to mid-19th century, the modern written standard became codified in the context of the Czech National Revival. The most widely spoken non-standard variety, known as Common Czech, is based on the vernacular of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, conductor and orchestrator noted for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ''The Lord of the Rings'' and '' The Hobbit'' film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on ''The Lord of the Rings'', with one being for the song " Into the West", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979, and collaborated with Martin Scorsese on six of his films. Shore has also composed concert works including one opera, '' The Fly'', based on the plot of Cronenberg's 1986 film, which premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on July 2, 2008; a short piece named ''Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra''; and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Brion
Jon Brion (born December 11, 1963) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, and composer. He performed with the Excerpts, the Bats, 'Til Tuesday and The Grays (band), the Grays before becoming an established producer and film score composer. Brion has produced music for artists and bands including Of Montreal, Aimee Mann, Love Jones (band), Love Jones, Eels (band), Eels, Fiona Apple, Elliott Smith, Robyn Hitchcock, Rhett Miller, The Crystal Method, Frank Ocean, Kanye West, Sky Ferreira and Mac Miller. According to ''Stereogum,'' Brion's work on Mann's first solo albums "lay the groundwork for a sound that became synonymous with a strain of notable alternative acts at the turn of the century". Brion's film scores include ''Hard Eight (film), Hard Eight'' (1996), ''Magnolia (film), Magnolia'' (1999), ''Punch-Drunk Love'' (2002), ''Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' and ''I Heart Huckabees'' (both 2004), ''Synecdoche, New York'' (2008), ''Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graeme Revell
Graeme Revell (born 23 October 1955) is a New Zealand musician and composer. He came to prominence in the 1980s as the leader of the industrial rock/ electronic rock group SPK. Since the 1990s he has worked primarily as a film score composer. Some of Revell's best known film scores include '' Dead Calm'' (1989), '' The Crow'' (1994), ''Street Fighter'' (1994), '' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie'' (1995), '' From Dusk till Dawn'' (1996), '' The Craft'' (1996), '' The Saint'' (1997), '' The Negotiator'' (1998), '' Bride of Chucky'' (1998), ''Titan A.E.'' (2000), '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001), '' Daredevil'' (2003), '' Freddy vs. Jason'' (2003), and ''Sin City'' (2005). He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director David Twohy, having scored '' Below'' (2002) and the '' Riddick'' franchise. He is an eight-time recipient of the BMI Film Music Award, including the Richard Kirk Career Achievement Award, and an AACTA Award winner. Biography Early l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Tyler
Brian Theodore Tyler (born May 8, 1972) is an American composer, conductor and arranger, best known for his film, television, and video game scores. In his 26-year career, Tyler has scored seven installments of the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise, '' Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'', '' Rambo'', ''Eagle Eye'', '' The Expendables trilogy'', ''Iron Man 3'', '' Now You See Me'', '' Avengers: Age of Ultron'' alongside Danny Elfman, '' Crazy Rich Asians'' and '' The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' among others. He also composed and re-arranged the current fanfare of the Universal Pictures logo, originally composed by Jerry Goldsmith, for Universal Pictures' 100th anniversary, which debuted with ''The Lorax'' (2012), and composed the 2013–2016 Marvel Studios logo, which debuted with '' Thor: The Dark World'' (2013), which he also composed the film's score. He composed the ''NFL Sunday Countdown Theme'' for ESPN, the Formula One theme (also used in Formula 2 and Formula 3), and the anthem for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Yared
Gabriel Yared (; born 7 October 1949) is a Lebanese-French composer, best known for his work in French and American cinema. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Yared scored the French films '' Betty Blue'' and ''Camille Claudel''. He later worked on English-language films, particularly those directed by Anthony Minghella. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Score and a Grammy Award for his work on '' The English Patient'' (1996) and was nominated for both ''The Talented Mr. Ripley'' (1999) and '' Cold Mountain'' (2003). Life and career When Yared was 7, his father sent him to an accordion teacher. Two years later Yared stopped his accordion lessons and started music theory and piano lessons. Although he was not necessarily a gifted pianist, Yared was interested in reading music. When Yared was 14, his piano teacher died and Yared replaced him as the organist of Université Saint-Joseph. Yared used the university's library to read the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, Robert Schuman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludovic Bource
Ludovic Bource (; born 19 August 1970 in Pontivy) is a French composer best known for his work in film scoring. He rose to international critical acclaim in 2011 for composing the Golden Globe- and Academy Award-winning score for '' The Artist''. Life and career Bource first studied music at a conservatory in Brittany, moving afterwards to the Centre d'Informations Musicales (CIM), in Paris, where he studied Jazz. Bource began his career composing music for commercials, but later moved on to short films, such as, ''En attendant'' (2000), ''Spartacus'' (2003), and ''Sirene Song'' (2005). After working on the Michel Hazanavicius film ''Mes amis'', Bource has become a long-time collaborator with the director. He has since scored such Hazanavicius films as '' OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (2006), its sequel '' OSS 117: Lost in Rio'' (2009), and most recently the black-and-white silent film '' The Artist'' (2011). The latter, recorded with award-winning Brussels Philharmonic, elevat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jóhann Jóhannsson
Jóhann Gunnar Jóhannsson (; 19 September 1969 – 9 February 2018) was an Icelandic composer who wrote music for a wide array of media including theatre, dance, television, and film. His work is stylised by its blending of traditional orchestration with contemporary electronic elements. Jóhann released solo albums from 2002 onward. In 2016, he signed with Deutsche Grammophon, through which he released his last solo album, '' Orphée''. Some of his works in film include the original scores for Denis Villeneuve's '' Prisoners'', '' Sicario'', and '' Arrival'', and James Marsh's '' The Theory of Everything''. Jóhannsson was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score for both ''The Theory of Everything'' and ''Sicario'', and won a Golden Globe for Best Original Score for the former. He earned a second Golden Globe nomination for ''Arrival''. He was a music and sound consultant on '' Mother!'', directed by Darren Aronofsky in 2017. His scores for ''Mary Magdalene'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Isham
Mark Ware Isham (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician and composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic music, electronic. He is also a prolific and acclaimed composer of Film score, film scores, and has scored over 200 film and television productions since his debut in 1983. Isham is a nine-time Grammy Awards, Grammy Award nominee, winning Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album, Best New Age Album for his 1990 Mark Isham (album), self-titled album. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, Academy Award for A River Runs Through It (film), ''A River Runs Through It'' (1992), and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, Golden Globe Award for Nell (film), ''Nell'' (1994). He has also been nominated for six Primetime Emmy Awards, winning Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music, Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music for ''EZ Streets''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Iglesias
Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi (born 21 October 1955) is a Spanish composer. He was first noticed as a score composer for Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar and Julio Medem. His career became more international with time and he eventually started to work also in Hollywood. Since then, he has been nominated four times for an Academy Award for his work in the films '' The Constant Gardener'' (2005), '' The Kite Runner'' (2007), '' Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'' (2011), and '' Parallel Mothers'' (2021). His other film credits include soundtracks for Steven Soderbergh's '' Che''. and Hossein Amini's '' The Two Faces of January'' (2014). Iglesias also has worked for ballet and has done other classical music work. Early and personal life Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi was born in 1955 in San Sebastián, Spain. His sister is visual artist Cristina Iglesias. Iglesias was the brother-in-law of the late Spanish sculptor, Juan Muñoz. Career Iglesias studied harmony and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Danna
Jeff Danna is a Canadian film composer. He has composed or co-composed scores for a wide range of films and television, including ''The Boondock Saints'' (1999), '' Resident Evil: Apocalypse'' (2004), ''Silent Hill'' (2006)'', The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'' (2009), ''The Good Dinosaur'' (2015), ''Storks'' (2016), '' The Breadwinner'' (2017), ''The Addams Family'' (2019), '' Onward'' (2020), '' Guillermo Del Toro’s Tales of Arcadia'' (2019-2021), Nora Twomey’s '' My Father’s Dragon'' (2022) and ''Julia'' (2022). His older brother, composer Mychael Danna, is a frequent collaborator, and the two have received Emmy nominations for their work on ''Camelot'' (2011), ''Tyrant'' (2014-2016), and ''Alias Grace'' (2017). Additionally, Danna has been nominated for six Annie Awards, won five BMI Film & TV Awards, a Gemini Award, a Genie award, two Hollywood Music in Media Awards, and 15 SOCAN Awards. Early life Danna was born in Burlington, Ontario, to a musical family act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna (born September 20, 1958) is a Canadian composer of film and television scores. He won both the Golden Globe and Oscar for Best Original Score for '' Life of Pi''. He has also won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) in his work on the miniseries '' World Without End.'' Personal life Danna's family moved to Burlington, Ontario, when he was four weeks old. He is the brother of fellow composer Jeff Danna. He studied music composition at the University of Toronto. He has two children with his wife, Aparna. Career Danna served for five years as composer-in-residence at the McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto (1987–1992). Works for dance include music for ''Dead Souls'' (Carbone Quatorze Dance Company, directed by Gilles Maheu 1996), and a score for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's ''Gita Govinda'' (2001) based on the 1000-year-old classical Gita Govinda, with choreographer Nina Menon. In June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
