Srdjan Kurpjel (born 1971 in
Sarajevo
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), is a composer and re-recording mixer for film and television.
Srdjan began playing piano when he was 4 years old at the class of Neda Stankovic. He arranged the score for ''
Kuduz'' aged only 15, and composed the score for ''
Praznik u Sarajevu
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'' (1991). Subsequently forming an association with the composer
Goran Bregovic, he worked as orchestrator, programmer and arranger on ''
Arizona Dream
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Plot
Axel has a dream about an Eskimo who catches a ...
'' (1993), and the Palme d'Or winning ''
Underground'' (1995) and many more. He left his birthplace in 1991 and moved to London from where he heads his own post production facility house Zound. www.zound.com
His TV credits as composer include
Judderman Metz, Guinness, United Airlines, Audi, MTV News, Christopher Reid's Poem Song of Lunch with Emma Thomson and Alan Rickman, Messiah V for BBC, The End of the Line, ''
The Long Walk to Finchley
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'' (2008), ''
Transit
Transit may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Transit'' (1980 film), a 1980 Israeli film
* ''Transit'' (1986 film), a Canadian short film
* ''Transit'' (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four people in countrie ...
'' (2005), ''
The Naked Pilgrim'' (2003) and many more.
Other Sound Design Credits and Mixing include Around the World in 80 days, Tristan & Isolde, This Must be the Place with Sean Penn, The Disappearance of Alice Creed with Gemma Arterton, Heartless with Jim Sturgess, Skellig with Tim Roth, etc..
External links
*
Zound - artist biography
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1971 births
Living people
Bosnia and Herzegovina film score composers
Television composers
Musicians from Sarajevo