Favourite Music Composers
My all-time 10 favorite composers of film-scoring
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Graeme Revell was born in New Zealand in 1955. He was graduated from The University of Auckland with degrees in economics and politics. He is a classically trained pianist and French horn player. Revell worked for as a regional planner in Australia and Indonesia and as an orderly in an Australian psychiatric hospital. Graeme Revell was a member of SPK, a 70s Industrial music group, for which he played keyboards and percussion. Their single "In Flagrante Delicto" was the basis for his Dead Calm score. This was his first score and won him an Australian Film Industry award. Since then he's done a number of major and minor film soundtracks including The Crow, The Crow: City Of Angels, The Craft, The Saint, and Chinese Box.- 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.- Composer
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John Murphy is a British film composer from Liverpool. He began composing music scores for films in the early 1990s, working on several successful British movies, enjoying particular success with the soundtracks to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000).
Since 2000, Murphy has been based in Los Angeles. From here, he has worked with some of the industry's most respected and luminary filmmakers, including Danny Boyle, Stephen Frears and Michael Mann, and produced several prominent and diverse successes, including 28 Days Later, Miami Vice, Sunshine and 28 Weeks Later.- Actor
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Kevin Shields was born on 21 May 1963 in New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Lost in Translation (2003), Marie Antoinette (2006) and The Magdalene Sisters (2002).- Composer
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David Holmes was born in Belfast the youngest of 10 children. David collected vinyl throughout his teenage years and became a club DJ at the age of 15. David's taste of music as a teenager was very eclectic, ranging from Motown R&B, Latin jazz, punk rock, film scores, and disco. During these years he worked as a fanzine writer, and a concert promoter. In his late teens and early 20's David traveled across England and Ireland disc jockeying. During this time David met Ashley Beedle, and the two collaborated and produced the song "DeNiro" in 1992. It became a massive dance floor hit, sampling Ennio Morricone's theme to the film "Once Upon A Time In America". The success from the song allowed David to have a contract with Go! Discs. David released his first solo album "This Film's Crap, Let's Slash the Seats" in 1995. Songs like "No Man's Land", a personal response to the film "In the Name of the Father", added to the cinematic flavor the album alluded to in the title. In addition, every song included on the album was sold to film soundtracks and trailers such as The Game (1997) and Meet Joe Black (1998), with 'Lynda LaPlante' using many tracks for the television series _Supply and Demand (1997) (TV)_. The first proper film that David scored was Resurrection Man (1998) a bleak urban thriller directed by 'Marc Evans'. Following that score David traveled to New York City to create an audio documentary about urban jungle environments. David interviewed citizens about New York City, James Bond vs. John Shaft, city punk clubs, received a psychic reading about his own future, and a heard graphic narrative from a tough guy about racially motivated bar fight. David added to these documents songs with sonic structures ranging from drum and bass techno, gritty blues, retro Latin jazz, a modern version of the James Bond theme, and a cover of 'Serge Gainsbourg's' "Melody". The album attracted the attention of Danny DeVito who hired him to write the score and assemble the soundtrack to the film Out of Sight (1998). Entertainment Weekly named David one of The Top 100 Creative People in Entertainment. David spent his time afterwards remixing groups such as U2, The Manic Street Preachers, Primal Scream, Plant & Page, and Ice Cube. In 1999 he recorded his third album "Bow Down to the Exit Sign" which includes collaborations with poet Carl Rux, British rock star Bobby Gillespie, soul singer Martina Toppley Bird, Bluesman Jon Spencer, film score composer David Arnold, and actor Sean Gullette . The album is based on a script written by his friend Lisa Barros D'Sa called "The Living Room".- Music Department
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Stephen Hilton is known for Hot Fuzz (2007), G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013) and Quantum of Solace (2008). He has been married to Laura Clery since 2012. They have two children.