Lawrence Nash Groupé (born April 1957) is an American

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composer for

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's offshoot label, Imperativa Records. Groupé has composed and orchestrated music for dozens of films and television programs. His most popular works include the score for

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's movies ''

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'' and '' The Contender'', and the television series '' Commander in Chief'', which starred

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as the United States' first female

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, Mackenzie Allen. Groupé has been nominated four times for an

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award, and won three. In 2004, he was nominated for an Emmy for the best original score for the

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'' Line of Fire''. He later won Emmys for the score of the

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'' Jonas Salk: Personally Speaking'', for the short subject film "Residue", about the US early involvement in Cambodia, and for '' Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story''. In 2001, Groupé composed and orchestrated music in a collaboration with the

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band

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for their ''

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'' album. He also toured with Yes and conducted a 60-piece orchestra as part of their promotional tour for the album, Yessymphonic.

Education and career

Groupé is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, and was the recipient of the ASCAP award for student composers. He received a Masters in Music Composition at the

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where he studied with Roger Reynolds, Bernard Rands, Toru Takemitsu. He also studied computer generated music at Stanford with John Chowning and Leland Smith. Groupé has composed, conducted and produced over 80 CD recordings. His music has been performed by a number of symphony orchestras, including Water Unfolding, a fantasy for orchestra commissioned by the San Diego Symphony, and Menagerie, a suite for solo organ, commissioned by the Spreckels Organ Society for its 85th birthday. Beginning in the Fall of 2016, Groupé became adjunct professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music specializing in scoring for visual media. Groupé is a co-founder, alongside composer

Roger Neill Roger Neill (born December 26, 1963) is an American composer, arranger, orchestrator, conductor, guitarist and educator. He is best known for his scores for the films '' 20th Century Women'', '' Don't Think Twice'', and '' Beginners''. Notable tel ...

, of the Palomar Film Music Workshop, which has convened yearly in the Pauma Valley in

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since 2015.

References

External links

Official site
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