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Sofiya Gubaydulina was born on 24 October 1931 in Chistopol, Tatarskaya ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Tatarstan, Russia]. She is a composer, known for The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017), Vertikal (1966) and Den angela (1968).- Music Department
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Recognized and Commended by the United States Congress, Maria Newman is an award-winning composer, violinist, violist and pianist. As an Annenberg Foundation Composition Fellow, a long-standing multiple Mary Pickford Foundation Composition Fellow, and violin soloist/featured composer in such diverse venues as the United States Capitol Building in Washington D.C., Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia's Academy of Music, Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Newman has become a visible symbol in modern classical music and makes her living from commissions and performance. Newman's scintillating and highly discussed works represent a range of genres, from large-scale orchestral works, works for ballet, chamber works, choral and vocal works, to new scores for restored classic silent film.
Maria Newman has been honored with numerous musical commendations and recognitions from the United States Congress, the Annenberg Foundation, the Mary Pickford Foundation, the California State Senate, the California State Assembly, the County of Los Angeles, the City of Malibu, and the Malibu Times periodical, and has appeared in subject spotlight articles by many of this nation's most noted and esteemed newspapers and magazines. She has received two Malibu Music Awards as "Classical Artist of the Year", the "Variety Composer Legend" Award, the coveted "Debut Award" from the Los Angeles "Young Musicians' Foundation," the California Arts Commission, the Utah Performing Arts Tour, and has been honored by ASCAP and many other organizations. Newman's works are featured regularly on public radio and television, as well as on Turner Broadcasting.
Newman was born into one of the most famous and influential musical families in Hollywood. She is the youngest daughter of nine-time Academy Award-winning film composer, Alfred Newman (1900-1970), who was the celebrated conductor of the original Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Maria Newman was educated at Yale University, where she graduated with an MM as a George Wellington Miles Fellow. While at Yale her studies in composition were with Martin Bresnick, and in violin with Syoko Aki. Newman received her BM Magna cum Laude from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music. Newman is a member of the American Academic Honor Society, Pi Kappa Lambda. She has collaborated in concert as soloist with actor Pierce Brosnan, and has had the great honor of performing as soloist at the United States Capitol Building Complex on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C., headlining a Special Event representing the Victim's Rights Bill.- Composer
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English composer and pop musician. Was a prominent member of the synthpop band The Art of Noise. Now, a critically acclaimed composer. Won an Oscar for Best Original Music or Comedy Score for work in The Full Monty (1997). Since has composed music for more than forty films, including: The Crying Game (1992), American History X (1998), and Bright Young Things (2003), and served as music producer for the film version of _Les Misérables_.- Composer
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Yuki Kajiura was born on 6 August 1965 in Tokyo, Japan. She is a composer, known for .hack//SIGN (2002), Fate/Zero (2011) and Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Movie: Mugen Train (2020).- Music Department
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With a vision and vocal style that is as unique as it is precise and all-embracing, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of the world's most highly acclaimed film composers, winning a Golden Globe for her work on the score for 'Gladiator' with Hans Zimmer.
Lisa also received an Oscar nomination for 'Gladiator' along with two further Golden Globe Award nominations for her scores to 'Ali' and 'The Insider'. Lisa's film work also includes 'Whale Rider', a feature which received an Academy Award nomination and garnered Lisa an international award for the score.
Her musical journey began in the early 1980s when she and fellow Australian Brendan Perry formed duo 'Dead Can Dance'. In 2012 the band reunited for a sell-out world tour. With nine albums released between 1984 and 1995, the duo's musical canvas expanded with each release to take in a timeless mix of world-music influences, medieval chants, folk ballads, baroque stylings, Celtic flavours, electronics, samples and anything else that took their fancy. Several solo and collaborative albums were well received and Lisa made a natural progression to composing for films.
In 2009 Lisa scored the highly acclaimed feature 'Balibo' for which she won the 2009 Screen Music Award for Best Feature Film Score, an Aria Award and 3 further nominations. In 2010 Lisa finished her score for 'Oranges and Sunshine' and the controversial film 'Tears of Gaza'. In 2011 she completed the score for 'Burning Man' which won her Best Music Score at the 2011 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.
In 2013 Lisa performed the principal vocal role in leading European film composer Zbigniew Preisner's poignant concert piece 'Diaries of Hope', inspired by diaries and poems of Polish children who were victims of the Holocaust. This was premiered both in Wroclaw, Poland and at the Barbican in London. Lisa's vocal performances continue to be heard across the world, with a number planned for 2018, including a performance of 'Gladiator Live' at The Royal Albert Hall in London.
In 2016 Lisa collaborated with James Orr on the score for Paul Currie's thriller '2:22'. She also collaborated with Marcello De Francisci on the score for the feature 'Jane Got a Gun' directed by Gavin O'Connor and starring Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor. Most recently she completed the score with James Orr to 'West of Sunshine', which premiered at the Venice International Film Festival.
Most recently, Lisa collaborated with The Mystery of the Bulgaria Voices on their up-coming album, due for release by Prophecy Records on 25th May 2018. The first single from the album 'Pora Sotunda' was released in November 2017 and Lisa plans to perform with the choir throughout Europe during 2018.- Composer
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Five-time Emmy winning composer and composer of the Grammy-winning album Ask Your Mama, Laura Karpman's vibrant career spans film, television, video-game and concert music. Her distinguished credits include the series Underground, in collaboration with Raphael Saadiq and John Legend, Step, a Sundance 2017 favorite, Eleanor Coppola's Paris Can Wait starring Diane Lane and Alec Baldwin, Kasi Lemmons' Black Nativity starring Jennifer Hudson and Forest Whitaker, Steven Spielberg's miniseries Taken, the Showtime series Odyssey 5, and Masters of Science Fiction for which she received Emmy nominations. She also contributed to Sophia Coppola's 2017 The Beguiled.
Commissioned by Carnegie Hall, she collaborated with soprano Jessye Norman and The Roots on Ask Your Mama, a multimedia opera on a text by Langston Hughes, which received its sold-out premiere at Carnegie Hall in March 2009, and its West Coast premiere at The Hollywood Bowl and was revived at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. Laura has been commissioned by the Glimmerglass Festival and is developing an opera Balls, a collaboration with NY Times columnist Gail Collins, with Yuval Sharon's The Industry.
Laura has received two GANG awards and an additional nomination for her video-game music which has been performed by orchestras internationally, as well as an Annie Feature nomination. She serves as an advisor for the Sundance Film Scoring Labs and is on the faculty of the USC Film Scoring Program. Laura is the founding President of the Alliance for Women Film Composers and is proud to serve as a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.- Composer
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Jocelyn Pook is one of the UK's most versatile composers, having written extensively for stage, screen, opera house and concert hall. Often remembered for her film score to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, which won her a Chicago Film Award and a Golden Globe nomination, she has worked with some of the world's leading directors, musicians and artists including Martin Scorsese, Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, Laurie Anderson. Her first opera Ingerland was commissioned by ROH2 for the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio in 2010, and The BBC Proms and The King's Singers commissioned her to collaborate with Poet Laureate Andrew Motion on a work entitled Mobile. Jocelyn won an Olivier Award for the National Theatre's production of St Joan, and a British Composer Award for her multi-media music-theatre piece Speaking in Tunes. She won a second British Composer Award for her soundtrack to Akram Khan's dance production DESH. In 2014 she composed the score for his dance piece Dust choreographed for English National Ballet to mark the centenary of the First World War, as well as the score for Mike Bartlett's play King Charles III which premiered at Almeida Theatre, London and transferred to West End and Broadway NY. Her most recent ballet for English National Ballet, M-Dao, choreographed by Yabin Wang, premiered in 2016 at Sadler's Wells. In 2018 Jocelyn won a BAFTA for her score for the 2017 TV film version of King Charles III. She composed the soundtracks for The Wife, acclaimed feature film starring Glenn Close, and for The Staircase, the extraordinary documentary series directed by Jean-Xavier Lestrade. This year Pook was commissioned by The Proms to compose a new piece for Prom 49: in The Lost Words:"You Need To Listen To Us" she sets words from speeches by environmental activist Greta Thunberg to music. She also composed the soundtrack for The Kingmaker, a documentary film about the controversial political career of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines, directed by Lauren Greenfield, to be released later this autumn.- Composer
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Leah Curtis was born in Canberra, Australia. She is known for Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005), Killing Ground (2016) and To Rest in Peace (2011).- Composer
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British composer Rachel Portman became the first female composer to win an Academy Award, which she received for the score of Emma. She was also the first female composer to win a Primetime Emmy Award, which she received for the film, Bessie. She has received two further Academy Nominations for The Cider House Rules and Chocolat, which also earned her a Golden Globe Nomination. Rachel was given an OBE in 2010 and is an honorary fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. She's also a Fellow of the Royal College of Music. Rachel has written stage and concert commissions including a musical of Little House on the Prairie, and an opera of Saint Exupery's, The Little Prince for Houston Grand Opera. For the BBC Proms, she wrote The Water Diviner, a dramatic choral symphony. She also wrote 'Endangered' performed at the World Environment Day Concert, at the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing. Other works include Earth Song for the BBC Singers, a solo piano album Ask The River and most recently for Joyce Di Donato, The First Morning of the World as part of her Eden programme.- Composer
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Sneha Khanwalkar was born on 28 April 1983 in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. She is a composer and actress, known for Gangs of Wasseypur (2012), LSD: Love, Sex Aur Dhokha (2010) and Tabbar (2021). She is married to Kanu Behl.- Composer
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Laura Rossi has written music extensively for film and television, including the critically acclaimed London to Brighton, The Eichmann Show, starring Martin Freeman and Anthony LaPaglia, Song for Marion, starring Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp, and Hurricane directed by David Blair.
She has also scored many silent films including the British Film Institute's Silent Shakespeare and Jane Shore, and the famous IWM 1916 film The Battle of the Somme and The Battle of the Ancre. Laura has been commissioned to write numerous concert works including Voices of Remembrance, a choral/orchestral work, commissioned to mark the Centenary of the First World War, which features war poems read by Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave.
In 2016/17 she was artistic director for Somme100 FILM, a worldwide project coordinating 100 live orchestral performances of her score for the 1916 film, The Battle of the Somme. The project was attended by an audience of over 37,000 people, involved over 4,200 musicians, and was televised live on BBC1 with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.
In 2017, Laura was made an Academy Member for 'exceptional accomplishment in the field of theatrical motion pictures.' Her music has been recorded and performed worldwide by the Philharmonia Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, London Contemporary Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Her works have been performed at the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London. Laura has spoken about film music at many festivals and regularly gives masterclasses at colleges and universities, and is lecturer for film music at the London Film Academy.- Composer
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Pinar Toprak is a Turkish-American Emmy-nominated composer, conductor and performer, who specializes in creating thematic scores for everything from superhero sagas and blockbuster comedies to TV series and dramas. With her work on Captain Marvel and Fortnite, Pinar is the first female composer to score both a film and video game with gross revenues of over $1 billion and $5 billion respectively.
Pinar also brings her fresh perspective and unique vision to a diversity of others musical projects, to name a few: composing the new theme for Amazon Prime Video Sports, popularly used on NFL's Thursday Night Football, composing and producing the soundtrack for Disney theme parks, including the new Epcot theme, writing and producing music for Christina Aguilera's 2019 Xperience Live Show in Las Vegas and conducting Billie Eilish's performance of "No Time To Die" at the 2022 Oscars ceremony.
2023 will see the releases of the highly anticipated Paramount animation film PAW Patrol: The Might Movie and the Netflix comedy Family Switch, starring Ed Helms and Jennifer Garner, both with a score by Pinar Toprak.
As the recipient of an ASCAP Shirley Walker Award and three International Film Music Critics Association Awards for Best Original Score, Pinar's dynamic style has attracted accolades across genres and earned her an Emmy nomination for Best Original Score as well as a spot on the Academy Awards shortlist.
Pinar's talent for illuminating a story with her music is evident throughout her work, including scores for The Lost City (starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum, directed by Adam Nee and Aaron Nee), Stargirl on the CW (created by Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti ), Syfy's Krypton (created by David S. Goyer and Damien Kindler), HBO's McMillions (directed by James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte), Slumberland (starring Jason Momoa, directed by Francis Lawrence) and Shotgun Wedding (starring Jennifer Lopez, directed by Jason Moore), among many others.- Composer
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A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Class of 2016, film composer Lesley Barber writes music marked by intelligence and emotional depth. She has scored a string of award-winning and highly acclaimed projects, including Kenneth Lonergan's multi-award-winning and Oscar-nominated film, Manchester by the Sea.
A multi-instrumentalist, conductor and pianist, Lesley's interest in modern electronic programming, loops, and effects adds dimension to her work, creating hybrid atmospheric scores with lush orchestration with an innate ability to bring the essential to light and avoid the cliche.
Her distinguished list of credits include Lonergan's Oscar-winning You Can Count On Me, Jerry Rothwell's award-winning documentary How To Change The World, Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park, Mira Nair's Golden Globe winning Hysterical Blindness, Marry Harron's Moth Diaries, the children's classic Little Bear with Maurice Sendak, Yo-Yo- Ma: Sex Gestures, Wiebke Von Carolsfeld's Marion Bridge, Allison Ander's Beaches, and the released powerhouse documentary The Apology by Tiffany Hsiung.
Lesley is a proud and active member of the Alliance for Women Film Composers which has taken a leading role in the much-publicized diversity conversation now occurring in Hollywood. She has a passion for good food, great cities, and interesting company.- Composer
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Starr Parodi first entered the public eye playing keyboards as part of the house band on the hit late-night Arsenio Hall Show. Since then she has become a vibrant part of the Los Angeles composing community, scoring hundreds of episodes of TV & film as well as being a passionate and innovative solo artist, pianist and Grammy® winning producer whose work has been featured on NPR, THE BBC, KCRW and iHEART Radio.
Her scoring credits include The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Michael B. Jordan's gen:LOCK, The Starter Wife, Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, Transformers: Rescue Bots, G.I. Joe Renegades, The Division, and hundreds of Hollywood's most iconic and visible film trailers/promo (Rogue One, Last Samurai, James Bond, Mission: Impossible II, The Peanuts Movie, Harry Potter, Dreamgirls, Night at the Museum, X-Men 3, etc.). Her darkly innovative production/arrangement of the James Bond Theme (RIAA Gold Record) was credited by Forbes magazine as "reinventing the modern action movie trailer."
Starr is the first woman to have her orchestral works performed in the history of the Festival of Arts - Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach, CA, where she is a featured composer.
Starr has released three critically acclaimed solo albums and collaborated on the writing and production of numerous recordings. Her album Common Places won "Record of the Year" from Solo Piano Radio and was lauded by KCRW's host and taste-maker Chris Douridas "This deeply passionate and beautiful recording is one of the best albums of the year." Her neoclassical release, The Heart Of Frida, which celebrates the life, art and courageous spirit of beloved artist Frida Kahlo, won awards for Solo Piano Album of the Year from both International Radio Broadcasters (ZMR), and solopiano.com.
In 2017, for "The Women in the World Summit" hosted by Scarlett Johansson, the New York Times invited Starr to Lincoln Center to conduct "To All The Little Girls," a music video and performance she produced and arranged with Oscar winning filmmaker Terry Sanders, which celebrates the potential of young women. In 2019 Starr was again featured at Lincoln Center with a world premiere of her concert work "The Joy of the Waters" as part of "Women Warriors: The Voices of Change."
Starr has won numerous awards including a 2021 Hollywood Music in Media Award (HMMA) for Best Contemporary Classical, was honored with both the 2021 She Rocks - VISION Award, the 2022 BMI IMPACT Award, and is a featured composer and artist on the iconic recording "Women Warriors: The Voices of Change" which won the Grammy® in 2022. As a producer and featured artist, Starr won a 2023 Grammy® award in the Classical Compendium category for her work on Kitt Wakeley's An Adoption Story.
A trailblazer onstage and in the studio, Starr served as the President of the Alliance for Women Film Composers from March 2019- March 2021, sits on the advisory board, and is widely recognized as a leader in expanding the reach of women in the arts as a composer, producer, performer and cultural visionary.- Composer
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Michiru Ôshima was born on 16 March 1961 in Nagasaki, Japan. She is a composer, known for Lost Paradise (1997), Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa (2005) and Bokukyû: A ressha de iko (2011).- Music Department
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Recognized in Hollywood as an extraordinary talent, Penka Kouneva has composed on iconic video games (League of Legends, Prince of Persia, The Mummy), the Netflix animated series Dragon Age: Absolution, a NASA theme park at the Kennedy Space Center, and numerous feature films (the Oscar contender Aga, Sony Pictures releases - Encounter and Devil's Whisper, and Cannes and Berlinale favorites). Her music has received national press as "fantastic, luminous and breath-taking" (Billboard, NPR and Forbes). The Grammy-winning soundtrack Women Warriors created by Amy Andersson featured seven compositions by Penka. As one of the industry's most accomplished women composers, in 2019 she was invited by showrunner Mark A. Altman and composer Joe Kraemer to co-compose the CW primetime TV show, Pandora. In 2020, Penka scored the Super Bowl TV ad campaign for Olay, #MakeSpaceForWomen. Like a great musical storyteller, her music carries the listener forth on an emotional wave with soaring themes and innovative orchestral arrangements.
The top soundtrack label Varese Sarabande (Universal Music) released Penka's orchestral albums The Woman Astronaut (2015) and Rebirth of Id (2018) to rapturous press. Penka is a Sundance Fellow, Duke University Distinguished Alumna and has received the Game Audio Network Guild Recognition Award. In 2019 Penka was commissioned and performed by Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in front of an audience of 18,000 ("America in Space").
Penka was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria, received classical training and began composing incidental music for kids' theater at the age of 12. In 1990 she ventured out of Bulgaria with a Duke University composition fellowship and $150 in her pocket. At Duke, she studied with the celebrated orchestral composers Stephen Jaffe and Scott Lindroth and received the first-ever Ph.D. in composition. As a groundbreaking artist, mentor and passionate advocate for the advancement of women composers, Penka has been featured on NPR, documentaries, books, and in the international press.- Composer
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Hildur Guðnadóttir was born on 4 September 1982 in Iceland. She is a composer, known for Joker (2019), Women Talking (2022) and Tár (2022). She is married to Sam Slater. They have one child.- Composer
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Joanna Bruzdowicz was born on 17 May 1943 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland. She was a composer and producer, known for Vagabond (1985), J'ai oublié de te dire (2009) and Kung-Fu Master! (1988). She was married to Horst-Jürgen Tittel. She died on 3 November 2021 in Taillet, Pyrénées-Orientales, France.- Composer
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Yôko Kanno was born on 18 March 1964 in Sendai, Japan. She is a composer and writer, known for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (2002), Wolf's Rain (2003) and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001).- Composer
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Yôko Shimomura was born on 19 October 1967 in Hyogo, Japan. She is a composer, known for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018), Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope (2022) and Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016).- Composer
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Hikaru Nanase is known for Zone of the Enders (2001), Chrono Crusade (2003) and Infinite Stratos (2011). Hikaru is married to Yoshiyuki Itô.pseudonym used by Masumi Itō- Composer
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Chanda Dancy is known for Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023), Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) and Devotion (2022).- Composer
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Emmy nominated Composer, Miriam Cutler has an extensive background in scoring for independent film & TV projects, as well as two circuses. In June, 2013, Miriam was chosen by her peers to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a member of the Documentary Branch. In 2014 she was also invited to represent Documentary Film abroad for the US State Department's Program, American Film Showcase.
She recently completed scores for 2014 Primetime Emmy winner One Last Hug, American Promise which received Special Documentary Jury Prize at Sundance 2013 and the Oscar-nominated Kings Point.
Miriam's passion for documentary film has led to a focus in non-fiction with credits including award-winning and festival favorites: Oscar-nominated Poster Girl (HBO); Ethel (Sundance/HBO), Rory Kennedy's five time Emmy nominated documentary about her parents, Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, which was also shortlisted for an Oscar in 2013), 2 time Emmy nominated Vito (HBO), two-time Emmy nominee Desert Of Forbidden Art (PBS/Independent Lens); Emmy Award-winner Ghosts Of Abu Ghriab (Sundance/HBO); Emmy-nominated THIN (Sundance/HBO); and many more.
Miriam Co-Produced as well as scored One Lucky Elephant (OWN). She has served as lab advisor for the Sundance Institute Documentary Composers Lab, as well as on documentary juries for the Sundance Film Festival, Independent Spirit Awards, International Documentary Association Awards, and American Film Institute's Film Festival Awards and is a long-time Society of Composers and Lyricists Board member. She has also co-produced two Grammy-nominated live jazz albums on PolyGram/Verve for Joe Williams, and albums for Nina Simone, Shirley Horn, and Marlena Shaw as well as independently released albums of her own songs and soundtracks.- Composer
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Natalie Holt is a multi-award-winning British composer, known for her work on Marvel Studios' Loki and the acclaimed Lucasfilm series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Upcoming projects include DC's Batgirl as well as Fox's female super hero feature The Princess.
Her film and television credits include the BAFTA Award-winning series Wallander (BBC), Knightfall (History Channel), the BAFTA Award-winning series Three Girls (BBC), mini-series Deadwater Fell, the Emmy Award-nominated series The Honourable Woman (HBO Max), Victoria (PBS), Saul Dibb's World War I feature Journey's End, and the Netflix/Claudia Llosa's drama feature Fever Dream, to name just a few.
Natalie's numerous awards nominations and wins include the Primetime Emmy Awards, World Soundtrack Awards' "Television Composer of the Year", BAFTA, SCL Awards, the Royal Television Society Craft and Design Award, the HMMAs, and "Best International Score" at the Beijing International Film Festival.- Actress
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Amy Grant was born on November 25, 1960, in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A., the youngest of four daughters to Dr. Burton Paine Grant and his wife Gloria. She recorded her first album, a Christian album called, "Amy Grant" in 1977. It initially sold 250,000 copies, eventually selling over a million copies. Her big break came in 1991, when she released the album "Heart in Motion." The song, "Baby Baby" went to number one on the Radio & Records Chart for three weeks. The album eventually sold over four million copies in the United States alone.- Music Department
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Shirley Walker was born in Napa, California in 1945. She was educated at Pleasant Hill High School; attended San Francisco State College on piano scholarship; studied composition with Dr. Roger Nixon; and piano with Harald Logan of Berkeley, California. She was soloist with San Francisco Symphony while in high school; performed with various hotel, jazz & art bands in San Francisco, 1964 - 1967.
Industrial film and jingles work 1967 - 1978. Oakland Symphony Orchestra pianist 2 seasons, Cabrillo Festival Orchestra pianist 2 seasons. Member American Federation of Musicians (AFM) 1962 - present Member National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS) 1978 - present; Member American Society of Composers Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) 1980 - present; Member Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) 1987 - present; Awards Committee 1987 - 1988; Member Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) 1985 - present; Vice President 1988 - 1992; Board of Directors 1986 - 1994; Working Conditions Committee 1987 - 1989; author SCL Working Conditions Questionnaire; author for The Score, SCL periodical: Packaging Scores, The Business of Quality Orchestration, New Low Budget Film Rate, Assumption Agreements and the Special Payments Fund. Member Recording Musicians Association (RMA) 1990 - present, Board of Directors 1994 - present; Member Broadcast Music Inc., (BMI) 1993 - present; Member Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (AMPAS) 1994 - present; Executive Music Branch Committee 1994 - present.
She married Don Walker in 1967 and they had two sons, Colin born 1970, Ian born 1972.- Composer
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For critically acclaimed composer and recording artist Clair Marlo, music has been an inspiring journey leading from her roots in the Istrian Coast of Croatia to the magnetic world of film and television.
In the area where Clair grew up, mandolins, bouzoukis, zournas, and other unusual ethnic instruments were common. Though ultimately drawn in more formal directions, Clair has maintained a continuing affinity for unique musical traditions; folk choirs, tribal drums, chants and other cultural forms are often utilized in Clair's recordings and compositions.
Learning to read musical notation at six years old, Clair's first introduction to music was in her singing. Writing music soon became her passion, though, and she found herself consumed. By the time Clair was twelve, she was writing songs for her school productions. At sixteen, she got her first song published by MCA Music and got her first songwriter's advance. Her voice began to be the instrument through which she found herself expressing her musical ideas.
Before getting her degree in music from the prestigious Berklee School of Music, Clair first attended the Queens College - Aaron Copland School of Music at the young age of 16 studying classical composition. While learning composition and arranging, Clair also got into the Record Production Program at Berklee. She found herself a second obsession - producing records. Her first record as producer was a regional success with her own band, Lucky Southern. She was 18 years old.
After college, Clair toured and did arrangements for her touring band. The atmosphere was fun but Clair found herself yearning to get back into the studio, so to L.A. she went.
Moving to Los Angeles, Clair did arrangements for records, radio promos and jingles, working with great session players and learning the ropes. Soon after, she began producing records for others, becoming known as one of the Top 2 Female Producers in the US. It was around the same time that Clair got noticed by well-known audiophile label, Sheffield Lab Records and she was offered a deal as recording artist. That later also translated into her role as record producer for such artists as Pat Coil, Michael Ruff, and others
Clair's recording and producing career led to international tours, with fan bases in much of Europe and Asia. Drawing on her now broad musical background, Clair began incorporating the different styles of music into her work, coming out with albums under different group names and with different styles.
Continuing her work with record labels like Higher Octave, Virgin Records, Sonic Images, Earthtone, Sony, Telarc, Wildcat-MCA, and others, Clair also recorded under the names Primal Instinct, Tairona, Liquid Amber, Vox Mundi and Veselica . Achieving commercial success with each genre gave her the room to stretch out and explore new techniques. Her latest success Aria2 with Paul Schwartz, has her writing and singing in both Croatian and English to one of Paul's melodies. The piece Sviraj - Lullaby, was a single and the album went to #5 Billboard Classical Pop.
Clair became more interested in composing while writing and producing music that would be used in various television shows such as Young and the Restless, Melrose Place, Baywatch Nights , and commercials like Lever 2000, Reeboks, Ikea, Chuck E Cheese, and Permit Sportswear.
She got her first break as weekly composer for the Japanese daily drama "Aishisuginakute Yokatta" with success in the release of the soundtrack in Europe and Asia. That led to Clair's contributions of compositions for the popular feature films like The Swimming Pool (2003), The Firm, Thinner, Mother's Boys, Habitat and Hysteria, along with promos for Dateline, Ally McBeal, Dawson's Creek, Friends, NBA Basketball, and similar projects.
It was a natural transition into scoring that led Clair to co-compose, with composer 'Alexander "Ace" Baker', the score to movies such as Pursuit of Happiness, Valerie Flake, Tycus, Mach 2, Intrepid, My Magic Dog and others for director John Putch.
More recently, she has focused on her film and television work, with two independent film projects in the works.
An exciting development has been composing the music for her new CD release, Veselica .
As technology expands our ability to translate creative visions to new mediums, Clair thrives on the new challenges.- Composer
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Usha Khanna was born on 7 October 1941. She is a composer and actress, known for Badal (1966), Shabnam (1964) and Kab? Kyoon? Aur Kahan? (1970).- Composer
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Billboard chart-topping artist and acclaimed composer of "Toss A Coin To Your Witcher" Sonya Belousova created a sensation with her music from the mega-hit, The Witcher. With half a billion album streams, Belousova's soundtrack album charted on Billboard's Top 10 Soundtrack Albums, Top 20 Current Albums and Top 20 Album Sales, and rose to No. 1 on iTunes in every major territory in the world. Belousova's hit single "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Rock Song Sales chart and No. 8 on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart and became a global phenomenon and a viral sensation. Belousova continued pushing barriers in the epic fantasy action-adventure genre, most recently as the composer, music producer & songwriter for Netflix's instant global sensation One Piece - the biggest and most successful live-action adaptation of manga in the world. She composed the original score for One Piece as well as wrote & produced yet another viral hit song, "My Sails Are Set" feat. Norwegian art pop superstar Aurora. With her One Piece soundtrack encompassing a diverse array of musical genres, from songs to fiery flamenco guitar featuring guitar virtuoso Marcin, hip-hop to big band jazz funk fusion, folk to circus, rap to epic swashbuckling orchestra, Belousova is taking the industry by storm as she continues to create unforgettable music for captivating stories whilst retaining her trademark expansive sound.
Belousova signed a record deal with Sony Music Masterworks. Her record A Mighty Heart Beating Like A Drum features an incredible line up of guest artists: Grammy winning Serj Tankian of System of a Down, DL of Bad Wolves, heavy metal soprano and former Nightwish lead Tarja, Sophia James, Marcin, and Belousova herself.
Some of Belousova's previous projects include NBC drama The Thing About Pam starring Oscar winner Renée Zellweger, Amazon's The Romanoffs featuring a star-studded cast: Christina Hendricks, Isabelle Huppert, Aaron Eckhart, Amanda Peet, Diane Lane; Peacock's Sacred Lies starring Juliette Lewis; The Mist, Paramount's adaptation of the Stephen King novel; among other series and films. Belousova headlined the 2021 Krakow Film Music Festival with The Witcher Suite featuring herself on piano performing with a symphony orchestra and choir to a cheering sold-out crowd. A virtuoso concert pianist, she gained millions of fans across the globe starring in the viral sensation Player Piano, executive produced by Marvel Comics' Stan Lee.- Producer
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Sylvia Fine was born on 29 August 1913 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for The Five Pennies (1959), The Moon Is Blue (1953) and Vegas Vacation (1997). She was married to Danny Kaye. She died on 28 October 1991 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Composer
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Since scoring Deja Vu (Vanessa Redgrave, Stephen Dillane) for director Henry Jaglom in 1997, film composer Gaili Schoen has scored an eclectic variety of feature films, including Paramount Classics' Festival in Cannes (Ron Silver, Maximilian Schell) and Porchlight Entertainment's Mothers and Daughters (Sally Kirkland, Tom Bosley.) Schoen scored the PBS documentary Annie Leibovitz: A Life Through A Lens, alongside composer James Newton Howard, with bluesy guitar solos by Michael Monagan. She wrote a full orchestral score for the feature film Noble Things, which starred country singer Lee Ann Womack and Ryan Hurst. Her score for the documentary The Ghost of War featured clarinet solos by Maura Monagan and Scott Operman, and cello solos by Naill Ferguson. Gaili is known for creating warm, passionate scores which she credits to her insistence on using real musicians on every project.- Composer
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Drum & Lace, aka Sofia degli Alessandri-Hultquist, is an artist and composer from Florence, Italy. Her music has been described as being genre-fluid and having a "chameleon-like nature" (A Closer Listen), melding together sampled field recordings, lush layers of synths, chamber instruments and electronic beats. She draws inspiration from film music, music concrete and nature to create textural electronica, often blending unlikely sounds with one another.
Drum & Lace's musical education started at Berklee College of Music, where she studied in the Film Scoring & Composition program, before continuing her masters at New York University (Music Technology / 3D Audio). Her background in both scoring and band worlds have lead to her composition work including music for film/tv, as well as music for dance, theater, and other mixed media.
Notable film and television work includes AppleTV+ Original Series 'Dickinson', 20th Century Studios' period-comedy 'Rosaline'', NBC's 'Good Girls' and drama 'Summering' (Sundance 2022). Drum & Lace's upcoming releases in 2023 include LGBTQ+ feature romantic comedy 'Red White & Royal Blue' for Amazon Studios, which is based on the NY Times best-selling novel by Casey McQuiston (and directed by TONY award winning playwright Matthew Lopez), and Lionsgate horror 'Cobweb' directed by Samuel Bodin (Netflix's Marianne), whose screenplay by Chris Thomas Devlin was included in 2018's The Black List survey.
In 2022, Drum & Lace released her debut LP Natura on ambient vinyl label Past Inside the Present, which features appearances from the London Contemporary Orchestra (LCO) and Italian drummer Valentina Magaletti. This marked her first LP after a string of EPs, singles and soundtrack releases in previous years under the Drum & Lace moniker. Natura draws greatly from the juxtaposition of natural and artificial sounds, exploring this concept through manipulated field recordings, voice, modular synth and string ensemble. It was mixed by Paul Corley (Liminal / Sigur Ros) and mastered by Joshua Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv). Her most recent release, Frost EP, is a collection of ambient works that explore the use of voice and electronic textures to create hypnotic and soothing soundscapes.- Composer
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Angela Morley was born on 10 March 1924 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. She was a composer, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Watership Down (1978) and The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella (1976). She was married to Christine Parker and Beryl Stott. She died on 14 January 2009 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.- Composer
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Elisabeth Lutyens was born on 9 July 1906 in Bloomsbury, London, England, UK. She was a composer, known for My Nights with Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975), Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960) and The Terrornauts (1967). She was married to Edward Clark and Ian Glennie. She died on 14 April 1983 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.- Composer
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One of the UK's most successful female music ambassadors, Debbie is in demand as a composer and conductor.
Over the past 25 years, there are probably few people in the UK who have not heard one of Debbie's film or television scores. Whether watching Stephen Fry bring Oscar Wilde to life on the big screen, hearing the latest political commentary on a Sunday morning with Andrew Marr, revelling in the Tudor world of Thomas Cromwell in "Wolf Hall" or marvelling as Mark Williams's Father Brown solves another audiences have revelled in Debbie's iconic themes of beauty and passion, love and laughter.
Debbie has won a TRIC Award for THE GOOD GUYS and an RTS Award for WARRIORS, and has been nominated for two Ivor Novello Awards for WILDE and DEATH OF YUGOSLAVIA. In 2016 she was awarded the Best Composer, Drama award for WOLF HALL at the RTS West Awards. She has appeared as Kirsty Young's castaway on Desert Island Discs, and as an expert guest on the TV broadcasts of The Proms. She has presented two series of Sounds And Sweet Airs - an exploration of the history of female composers - on Classic FM.
Debbie was one of 11 composers chosen to write "New Water Music" for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Pageant in 2012. She was also commissioned to compose the Overture and Finale music for the Queen's 90th Birthday Celebration in May 2016 and is the appointed composer of The Pageant at the Royal Windsor Horse Show.
Debbie is currently Classic FM's Composer in Residence. Her most recent album The Glorious Garden, a collaboration with Alan Titchmarsh, spent three weeks at number 1 in the UK Classical chart.
Debbie was commissioned to compose the signature music for Viking Cruises in 2016, and in March 2017 she was made Godmother to their river ship Viking Herja.
In the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2018 Debbie was appointed OBE for services to music.
In April 2019 Debbie accepted the post of President of Making Music - the first female President in the charity's history - and she is Patron of Soundabout, the charity which has pioneered the use of music, rhythm and sound to give disabled children a voice and a way to express themselves.
Debbie's most recent release - THE MYTHOS SUITE - a collaboration with Stephen Fry, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios with the National Symphony Orchestra and released by Decca Records in February 2020, achieving #1 in the UK Classical Music Charts.- Composer
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Deborah Mollison is an award winning composer, songwriter and pianist who is perhaps best known for her score to East is East which was one of the most commercially successful independent British movies ever produced in the UK. Deborah 's impressive diversity of style is born of a love of the adventure of writing music. Her rapid speed of composition and ability to be original within any given musical genre is matched by her skills of orchestration, arranging and conducting . Deborah began composing at the age of seven, when it was discovered that she was gifted with an acute sense of perfect pitch. At the age of 13 she was accepted to study composition, pianoforte and flute at the Royal Academy of Music.
Deborah then went on to study film scoring at the University of California and Los Angeles with Don Ray, Jerrold Immel and Jerry Goldsmith. Following this, Deborah gained her doctorate at Middlesex University where she specialized in researching cognitive thought patterning in musical composition.
With a body of classical work, which includes commissions from the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia, Deborah continues to compose concert music and was inspired greatly by her lessons with composer Elisabeth Lutyens.
In May 2007 Deborah was awarded an ARAM from the Royal Academy of music.
Deborah has scored for film and television on both sides of the Atlantic including the US feature, The Boys of Sunset Ridge, the Carlton drama series The Thing About Vince with Timothy Spall and No Tears featuring Brenda Fricker which won the award for Best Mini-Series at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival in 2002.
Deborah has worked extensively for the BBC and Channel 4 on documentary series including Wild Weather, Better Designs and Secrets of the Ancients. More recently Deborah has revisited her comedy writing to complete two series of Uncle Max and the action comedy, A Spring in her Step.
As a songwriter whilst signed to Rondor Music in the late nineties, then subsequently to Universal Music publishing. Deborah worked with an impressive list of writers including Nick Kershaw, Rick Astley, Marti Pellow, Sam Brown, Chris Difford, Brian Kennedy, Kim Appleby and Tony Swain. Deborah has written songs for a few of her TV shows, including Uncle Max series one.
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Deborah Lurie was born on 9 March 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is a composer, known for Safe Haven (2013), Dear John (2010) and Captain Marvel (2019).- Actress
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Deborah Harry was born Angela Trimble on July 1, 1945 in Miami, Florida. At three months, she was adopted by Catherine (Peters) and Richard Smith Harry, and was raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. In the 1960s, she worked as a Playboy Bunny and hung out at Max's Kansas City, a famous Warhol-inhabited nightspot. Her professional singing career started in 1968 with a folk band called The Wind in the Willows. She sang backup on their first (and only) album. The band broke up shortly after failing to achieve commercial success or critical acclaim. In 1973, she met Chris Stein, who became her longtime boyfriend. They created Blondie in 1974 after they both were in the Stilletoes, a theatrical "girl group" band. Blondie struggled for a few years, then went on to be one of the most successful bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but the group broke up in 1982.
Harry has released five solo albums, acted in several movies and television series and a few commercials (Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans, Sara Lee, Revlon). She has done many benefit shows in support of AIDS charities, a Broadway show ("Teaneck Tanzi"), poetry readings, and been one of the most notorious characters in the New York downtown scene. As of 1995, she was doing shows in the United States and Europe with the Jazz Passengers and Elvis Costello, filming two new movies (Heavy (1995) with Liv Tyler and Evan Dando and Drop Dead Rock (1995) with Adam Ant) and topping the dance charts with two newly remixed Blondie singles ("Rapture" and "Atomic"). Several Blondie tribute albums have been released and a Blondie remix album titled "Remixed, Remade, Remodeled" came out in 1995.Blondie band-leader- Composer
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Kyls Burtland is known for When the Camera Stopped Rolling (2021), Here Come the Habibs! (2016) and Touch (2014).- Music Department
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Nora Orlandi was born on 28 June 1933 in Voghera, Lombardy, Italy. She is a composer and actress, known for Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004), Double Face (1969) and The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968).- Composer
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Samantha Fonti is known for Moving Day (2010), The 7th Hunt (2009) and You Can't Stop the Murders (2003).- Composer
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The elder of Basil Poledouris' two daughters, Zoë was born on August 25, 1973 in Los Angeles. Zoë grew up interpreting her father's music with movement on ice as a competitive figure skater. At the age of nine years, she performed a piece on the recorder for her father which became the melody for "the orgy", which was featured in Conan the Barbarian (1982). Zoë received co-writing credit and become one of the youngest members of BMI. Following her graduation from Bennington College, Zoë presented demos of her songs to friend and film composer Christopher Tyng, who helped to further produce her songs. One of these songs, a curious dance number called "Into It", was chosen by director Paul Verhoeven to be performed in Starship Troopers (1997), a film in which Zoë also makes a cameo appearance with Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards. Other films that feature samples of Zoë's work include Cecil B. Demented (2000) and Shadow of Doubt (1998). Down and Out with the Dolls (2001) not only features Zoë's score music but also features her in a starring role.- Composer
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Doreen Carwithen was born on 15 November 1922 in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. She was a composer, known for Break in the Circle (1955), The Men of Sherwood Forest (1954) and Three Cases of Murder (1954). She was married to William Alwyn. She died on 5 January 2003 in Forncett St Peter, Norfolk, England, UK.- Actress
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Britta Phillips wanted to pursue a career in music and decided to move to New York City when she was 19. Her dad did jingles in New York, and through his connections, she was able to audition for the cartoon series JEM, and was hired to sing the lead voice of JEM. The series ran from 1985 - 1988, and towards the end of JEM, Britta landed her first movie role in Satisfaction, and was still flying to Atlanta during filming to record the last few songs for JEM.- Actress
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Julie Delpy was born in Paris, France, in 1969 to Albert Delpy and Marie Pillet, both actors.
She was first featured in Jean-Luc Godard's Detective (1985) at the age of fourteen. She has starred in many American and European productions since then, including Disney's The Three Musketeers (1993), Killing Zoe (1993), Three Colors: White (1994), and the "Before" series, alongside Ethan Hawke: Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013).
She graduated from NYU's film school, and wrote and directed the short film Blah Blah Blah (1995), which screened at the Sundance Film Festival. She is a resident of Los Angeles.- Music Artist
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Lady Gaga, born Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is an American songwriter, singer, actress, philanthropist, dancer and fashion designer.
Gaga was born on March 28, 1986 in Manhattan, New York City, to Cynthia Louise (Bissett), a philanthropist and business executive, and Joseph Anthony Germanotta, Jr., an internet entrepreneur. Her father is of Italian descent; and her mother, who is from West Virginia, is of half Italian and half French, English, German, and Scottish ancestry. Gaga was able to sing and play the piano from a young age. She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart from age 11 where was bullied for her appearance (she was small and plumper than other girls with large front teeth) and eccentric habits.
By the age of 14, Gaga was performing at open mike nights in clubs and bars. By age 17, she had gained early admission to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In addition to sharpening her songwriting skills, she composed essays and analytical papers on art, religion, social issues and politics. At the age of 19 Gaga withdrew from her studies and moved out of her parents' home in order to pursue a musical career. During this time she started a band which began to gain local attention.
After a brief partnership with talent scout Rob Fusari, which resulted in the creation of her stage name, Gaga was signed to Def Jam Records in 2006; however she was dropped from the label after just three months. Devastated, Gaga returned home, and became increasingly experimental: fascinating herself with emerging neo-burlesque shows, go-go dancing at bars dressed in little more than a bikini in addition to experimenting with drugs.
Gaga met performance artist Lady Starlight during this time; after a performance at Lollapalooza Festival in 2007 Gaga was signed by Vince Herbert to Streamline Records, an imprint of Interscope Records. Having served as an apprentice songwriter under an internship at Famous Music Publishing, which was later acquired by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Gaga subsequently struck a music publishing deal with Sony/ATV. As a result, she was hired to write songs for Britney Spears and labelmates New Kids on the Block, Fergie, and the Pussycat Dolls. At Interscope, singer-songwriter Akon recognized her vocal abilities when she sang a reference vocal for one of his tracks in studio; Akon then convinced Interscope-Geffen-A&M Chairman and CEO Jimmy Iovine to form a joint deal by having her also sign with his own label Kon Live, making her his "franchise player."
In 2008 Gaga released her first album 'The Fame' to lukewarm radio play; Gaga toured around Europe and in gay clubs in the US to promote the album - however it was not until her first hit 'Just Dance' came to mainstream attention in 2009 that Gaga exploded onto the music scene.
Since then Gaga has gained numerous awards and nominations for a string of hits; her first album spawned several more smash hits 'Paparazzi', 'Loveame' and 'Poker Face'); while touring the album Gaga wrote 'The Fame Monster', an EP examining the darker side to her new-found fame. The Fame Monster was released in 2009 and won multiple awards, spawning her most iconic single 'Bad Romance' as well as 'Telephone' and 'Alejandro'. During this time Gaga came under increased public and critical scrutiny for her eccentric and often bizarre style choices. Gaga embarked on her second tour, The Monster Ball; upon finishing in May 2011, the critically acclaimed and commercially accomplished tour ran for over one and a half years and grossed $227.4 million, making it one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time and the highest-grossing for a debut headlining artist. Concerts performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City were filmed for an HBO television special. The special accrued one of its five Emmy Award nominations and has since been released on DVD and Blu-ray.
In 2011 Gaga released her second full-length album 'Born this Way'; the album was received vastly more critically than her previous two for touching on themes of politics, sexuality, and religion. Despite this, the album's songs were praised critically, and Born This Way sold 1.108 million copies in its first week in the US, debuting atop the Billboard 200, and topping the charts in more than 20 other countries. In addition to exceeding 8 million copies in worldwide sales, Born This Way received 3 Grammy Award nominations, including her third consecutive for Album of the Year. In March 2012, Gaga was ranked fourth on Billboard's list of top moneymakers of 2011, grossing $25,353,039 dollars, which included sales from Born This Way and her Monster Ball Tour.
At the end of April 2012, Gaga's Born This Way kicked off in Korea - the tour would last 2 years and take the singer to every continent of the globe. However in February 2012 the tour was abruptly canceled; Gaga had a labral tear in her right hip which she had been nursing secretly for several weeks in the hopes that she would be able to continue the tour. After a performance in Toronto left her unable to walk and in considerable pain, she was taken to hospital for surgery and the tour was canceled. Through to Jan. 17, the tour had grossed $168.2 million and moved 1.6 million tickets to 85 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore, with the Asian, European, and South American legs already completed in 2012. The North American leg, which was to wrap the tour and was almost completely sold out, would have likely put the tour at more than $200 million gross, easily in the top 20 tours of all time and probably in the top 15, according to Billboard. As it stands, Gaga finished sixth among all touring artists in 2012, with a gross of $125 million and attendance of more than 1.1 million, according to Boxscore.
Gaga wrote her third album, ARTPOP, released in 2013. Gaga made her acting debut in Robert Rodriguez's Machete Kills (2013), the sequel to his 2010 film Machete, and also appeared in Rodriguez's sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014). In 2018, she starred with Bradley Cooper, who also directed, in A Star Is Born (2018). Gaga received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the role.- Actress
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Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan was born in Ballybricken, a town 8 miles outside Limerick on Sept. 6, 1971. Her parents are Eileen and Terrance. Terrance was in a wheelchair due to a motorcycle accident. Dolores was the youngest of seven children, and one of two girls. In the late eighties, Dolores met up with her band members-to-be. Feargal Lawler of Parteen, and Mike and Noel Hogan of Moycross gave Dolores the music to their future hit "Linger". She came back the next day with lyrics. It took some time for The Cranberries to take off, very emotionally impacting Dolores who was overcome with frustration. Their debut album, "Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We" is a quote-Dolores said it while the band members were part of an audience at a concert. It was in America where the Cranberries first found satisfying success - when they returned to their native Ireland, success was awaiting them there as well.
Dolores' life went from railing against war and childhood strife (she was always an avid child advocate) and condemning disrespectful lovers, to deciding that she is "Free to Decide". The mother of three children, her family life brightened up her music. She died in London on 15 January 2018.- Composer
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Maribeth Solomon is known for Earth: Final Conflict (1997), Adderly (1986) and Babar: The Movie (1989).- Music Artist
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Diane was born in Van Nuys, California, USA on September 7, 1956 to parents David and Flora Warren. She become a prolific writer in her neighborhood, writing songs every day and eventually surpassing 1,000 of them. Her dad (an insurance salesman) took Diane to see publishers who said she had potential, but to come back and see them in the future. After signing with producer Jack White, circa 1983, the partnership produced her songs "Solitaire" and "Hot Night", which was recorded by Laura Branigan for the Ghostbusters (1984) soundtrack. It was also the beginning of a long line of film song projects, which produced many Oscar and Golden Globe nominations. After a legal battle with producer Jack White, Diane started her own publishing company called "Real Songs" in the late 80s. The company has the rights to all her songs and makes deals with hundreds of artists (and record companies) who record them.- Composer
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Emmy nominated and award winning composer and singer/songwriter Kathryn Bostic is known for her work on film, TV, theater, and symphonic music. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy. Kathryn is a recipient of numerous fellowships and awards including the prestigious Time Warner-Sundance Fellowship, Sundance Fellowship for Feature Film Scoring, BMI Conducting Fellowship, Sundance Fellowship for Documentary Film Scoring.- Composer
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Rachita Arora is known for Har Kisse Ke Hisse: Kaamyaab (2018), Shubh Mangal Savdhan (2017) and The Brawler (2017).- Music Department
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Composer and conductor Eimear Noone made history in 2020 at the 92nd Academy Awards when she became the first woman to conduct the orchestra at the Oscars.
Recently, Eímear composed the score for the animated feature film, 'Two by Two: Overboard', which topped the UK Box Office in October 2020.
An award-winning Irish composer and conductor Eimear splits her time between composing music for video games, feature films, Television, and commercials, and conducting classical and game music concerts. Most recently, Eimear composed and conducted for the iconic video game, World of WarCraft and its new expansion, Warlords of Draenor. The score for "WoD" received the 2014 Hollywood Music in Media Award for "Best Video Game Score" and was nominated for 5 Annual Game Music Awards, and the ASCAP Composer's Choice Award for Game Score. Eimear also composed the score for the feature film, The Donner Party (2009) starring Crispin Glover, among others. As a conductor she has led many of the world's great ensembles such as The Philadelphia Orchestra (The Mann Center), The Dallas Symphony (Myerson Hall), The Royal Philharmonic (Hammersmith Apollo Theatre), The Sydney Symphony (Sydney Opera House), and The National Symphony (Wolf Trap), just to name a few. Arguably the world's current premier conductor of video game scores (both in the studio and in the concert hall), her credits include the most respected in the genre, including games such as Heroes of The Storm, StarCraft II, Diablo III, Reaper of Souls, Hearthstone, Overwatch, and many more. Diablo III, as one example, smashed the record of game sales by selling over 3.5 million copies in the first 24 hours alone. It also won the 2012 GDC award for best audio - which includes the award for music, - the 2012 Hollywood Music in Media Award for Best Original Score, and a 2013 BAFTA Nomination for Best Original Score.
Recent studio conducting responsibilities include leading the orchestra for Electronic Dance Music legend BT's newest release, "Electronic Opus" as well as the score for the just-released Gus Van Sant film Sea of Trees, staring Mathew McConaughey. She has also conducted for Rock & Roll Hall of Famer, Gladys Knight. In March of 2015, she joined with BT to perform the music from "Electronic Opus" live as part of Miami Music Week. In the live performance of video game music, currently Eimear is a conductor for the touring show Video Games Live. Prior to this, for two years, Eimear toured as the principal conductor for The Zelda Symphony, a full four - movement symphony created from the themes from the iconic video game, The Legend of Zelda. In 2011, Eimear recorded the Zelda Symphony 25th Anniversary CD, released by Nintendo as part of their newest Zelda game, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Eimear also conducted for the series of 3D music videos that Nintendo released with their 3DS. These videos were filmed during the actual recording sessions for this Zelda game - the first time a game score had been filmed in 3D while it was being recorded. Bootlegs of the videos have garnered over 10 million YouTube viewings.
In 2011, Eimear conducted and co-produced This is Ireland, a live show with her husband, Emmy-nominated composer, Craig Stuart Garfinkle, at Royce Hall, LA for St. Patrick's Day. Featuring orchestra, gospel choir, actors, and soloists, the show starred Irish performers Pierce Brosnan and Roma Downey. Following on from the success of its premier, This is Ireland is being developed for a possible tour and television broadcast.
Although best known for these contemporary performances, Eímear's background is solidly in classical music. Recent concerts include her conducting works as varied as Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov), The Firebird (Stravinsky), The New World Symphony (Dvorak), and more. As another example of her classical experience, Eimear had the pleasure of conducting the orchestra for the Los Angeles Ballet in their inaugural production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker in 2007. The LA Times said of the performance: "...The score was again given loving care by Eimear Noone and her orchestra" - L. Segal - The L.A. Times, January 2007 Before relocating to California, for four years Eimear conducted and composed for the Dublin City Concert Orchestra, an ensemble she co-founded at the age of 21 for the performance and promotion of film music and repertoire used in films. The three honorary patrons of the orchestra were John Boorman, Elmer Bernstein and Noel Pearson. The orchestra and symphonic chorus held a sell out series of concerts at the National Concert Hall in Dublin and earned much attention from the Irish national press. The Irish Independent described her debut performance: "...In one movement the audience rose to its feet in a standing ovation reminiscent of Riverdance. It was magic, the response of the audience... people left exhilarated and in tears."- Composer
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Wendy Carlos, one of the great innovators in synthesized and electronic music, was born as Walter Carlos in Rhode Island on November 14, 1939. She underwent a sex-change operation in 1972, details of which she revealed during a surprise Playboy interview in 1979. Walter's last credited release is "Sonic Seasonings" (1972). Wendy's first credited release is the "Tron" soundtrack (1982), which was released on CD in 2002.- Actress
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Vivian Kubrick was born on 5 August 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Full Metal Jacket (1987), Shooting 'Full Metal Jacket' (1986) and Boots Oyson: sa katawan mo ... aagos ang dugo! (1989).- Composer
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Composer and pianist Marika Takeuchi, a native of Japan, began studies in classical music at 3. In addition to the piano, she played violin & horn for several years. She began studying composition & building a career as a composer at 18 at the Shobi Music College in Tokyo. Her early career includes composing for Japanese national radio & Universal Music Japan.
In 2009, she moved to the U.S. to study film scoring at the Berklee College of Music. She has scored several inspiring, independent short films. She released her first album "Night Dream" in 2011 and her single "The Arctic Light" has been featured in an Australian TV commercial, the Norwegian Tourism Board's official website as well as several other ads & short films.
After graduating from Berklee in 2012, she has been actively working on a wide variety of projects as a composer, pianist, orchestrator, arranger, copyist & educator. Her album "Impressions" (2013), was nominated for Best Neo-Classical Album at the 10th annual ZMR Awards. She then released her album "Rain Stories" in November 2014. Her new album "Colors in the Diary" was released in April 2016. It's produced by the Grammy-winning producer Will Ackerman & features cellist Eugene Friesen as well as Boston Symphony Orchestra violinist Si-Jing Huang.
She released a single Found in June 2018, another 1 Night Time & her latest album Melding in July 2018.- Composer
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Suzanne Ciani was born on 4 June 1946 in Indiana, USA. She is a composer, known for Super 8 (2011), The Stepford Wives (1975) and The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981).- Composer
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Lydia Ainsworth is an internationally acclaimed singer, composer, and producer. In 2015 her debut album Right from Real was nominated for a Juno award for best electronic album and shortlisted for the Polaris Prize. In 2017 Lydia's second LP, a still bolder set of electro art pop titled Darling of the Afterglow brought with it headlining tours of North America, Europe and Japan as well as support tours with Perfume Genius. Her 2019 third album, the self-released Phantom Forest, is a lush dream world of art and dance pop that she wrote and produced. Shortly after its release, she created string remixes of some of Phantom Forest's tracks, further showcasing her compositional skills and knack for reinvention. Her composition 'Diamonds Cutting Diamonds' from this collection was chosen for use in a worldwide Apple iPhone campaign. That same year, "Earth Song," her collaboration with Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, appeared in the last episode of Season 3 of Stranger Things. Lydia's original scores for film and commercials have screened at festivals such as Sundance, Cannes, and Hot Docs. "Lydia Ainsworth's pop experiments sound like they're made for big screens. Close your eyes (... ) and let the considerable power of her orchestral strings, horns, and dense harmonies transport you to a dark cinema, where surreal images tumble like falling skies, and it's not quite clear what comes next" - Jenn Pelly, Pitchfork- Additional Crew
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Danielle Marie Egnew was born in Billings, Montana on February 28th 1969, a town settled into by her farming great-grandparents who immigrated to America from Italy. Now a multi-award-winning Psychic / Medium, Artist, Actress, and Producer, Danielle Egnew's name can be found in the areas of television, film, music, radio, and print, in the genres of both performance and production. She has been the subject of magazine cover stories and front-page newspaper headlines highlighting her diverse career, as well as being featured in books about the music industry on Billboard Publishing.
Named "Psychic of the Year" by UFO's & Supernatural Magazine (Issue 3), as well as "Most Noted UFOlogist" (UFOs & Supernatural Magazine, Issue 4), Danielle Egnew is world renowned for her array of spiritual abilities. Applying her skill set which encompasses Angelic Communication ,Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Clairsentience, Empathy, Psychometry, Mediumship, Remote Viewing, Profiling, Spirit Guide Channeling, Extra-Terrestrial Interpretation and Tonal Healing, even outside-the-box spiritual ministry, Danielle Egnew has worked as a Professional Psychic and Medium both in the private sector and the media since 2004.
Danielle is a vetted alumni member of "Best American Psychics" and the national crime-solving organization "Find Me". Her forward-thinking perspectives on consciousness have been featured in the Washington Post and The Huffington Post. She has authored two books, "True Tales of the Truly Weird: Real Paranormal Accounts from a Real Psychic", which debuted on Amazon's top 20, and "Daily Spiritual Insight: 365 Lessons for Lifetime Growth", channeling angelic messages.
Her often disarming and approachable demeanor nearly masks someone whose vast knowledge of spiritual practices and paranormal phenomenon has landed her in the expert seat on more than one panel and production team. Along with her reputation of assisting law enforcement on cold cases with great success, she has been featured as on-camera talent on several television projects (ABC, NBC, USA, TNT) including 2019's season of "American Mystery" on Travel Channel, an appearance on the Psychic's version of "The Weakest Link" alongside five other Psychics and Astrologers recruited nationwide. She has been a paranormal content consultant on a number of paranormal television programs including CW's hit series "Supernatural", Lifetime's "America's Psychic Challenge", and the blockbuster film "Man of Steel". Danielle is in production with her own TV docuseries in which she stars, entitled "The Road Angel".
Danielle Egbw's career was born in the music industry, after she left a full-ride Musical Theater scholarship at the University of Arizona in 1988 to pursue music. She has been signed to multiple record labels since 1991. She is known in music history for being one of the first women in rock music to come out as openly lesbian during the grunge scene in Seattle.
Formerly fronting the all-female band Pope Jane in the 90's, her riveting onstage personae, red lipstick and long blonde curls redefined the idea of a "lesbian singer", adding to swell of the 90's Lilith Fair movement. Egnew's distinctive and powerful voice and ability to hold long, sustained notes, gathered her a loyal following during Pope Jane's epic four-hour-long concerts.
Her prolific songwriting habit lent her to penning songs not only for herself, but other artists, across the genres of rock, pop, country, folk and even film scores. Other musicians have reported Danielle as being "one of the kindest, coolest and most talented people I've ever worked with," stated Merle Haggard writer John Scott G.
Danielle also showed an enormous talent for producing and mixing. She went on to produce and record numerous other solo albums and other artists. Danielle co-owned two record labels, Maurice The Fish Records in Tacoma, WA with Raymond Hayden (2008-2018), and Tin Star Records in Sheridan, WY with Roy Pack (2012-2014). Her vision was to bring fresh local sounds from lesser-heard markets to an international audience.
A former voting member of the Grammy Recording Academy, Danielle was named as one of the "Ten Most Powerful Lesbians in Music" and chosen as "Most Likely To Turn You Into An Obsessed Fan" twice over by the editor of Curve Magazine. Her acoustic music project with Pope Jane drummer Kristen Coyner, entitled Backseat Bordello, was released July of 2010 and the album "End Times Diner" was heralded by Top40-Charts.com as "Intelligently written and marvelously mixed." Danielle also produced Pope Jane Bassist Holly Shawver's solo endeavor, The Holly Shawver Project, released in 2011.
Her music has gathered many awards over the years. Danielle's 2017 album "You've Got To Go Back the Way that You Came" won "Best Country Recording" in the Native American Music Awards (NAMMYs). In 2008 , her album "Red Lodge" was nominated as "Best Folk Recording" at the 2008 NAMMYs. In 2007 she took home the "Best Keyboardist" award at the All Access Music Awards in Los Angeles, while being simultaneously nominated for Best Overall Songwriter and Best Female Rock Vocalist) . This was a humbling repeat performance from the All Access Music Awards in 2006 while winning Best Female Guitarist and enjoying nominations in the Best Female Pop / Alternative Vocalist, and Best Overall Songwriter categories.
Danielle Egnew is also a film director. Both Danielle's pop and orchestral works appear in several TV and film projects, including her own feature film for which she wrote, produced, directed, and starred, the 2010 paranormal documentary "Montgomery House: The Perfect Haunting" (Ave Vox Entertainment), the film, having been heralded by Hollywood Today "the real-life Paranormal Activity".
Onstage, Danielle continued in her theatrical roots, honored to be part of several VDAY celebrity charity cast productions of "The Vagina Monologues" from the 2007 West LA cast of with Jennifer Beals, Alexandra Hedison, and others, and the New York 2006 cast alongside Ally Sheedy, Kathryn Erbe and many talented others.
As a writer, Danielle has penned screenplays, stage plays and sketch comedy, having her original screenplays optioned by Los Angeles production entities and her original dramatic plays produced on main stages in Montana, Arizona, and Seattle. On a comedic note, Danielle performed as a stand-up comic on the southwest circuit in college while writing and performing as a sketch comedy troupe member with famed college comedy group Comedy Corner, whose other notable alumni include writer Alex Baze (Saturday Night Live), actress Nicole Johnson (Mad TV), and actor Paul Goebel (Beat the Geeks, Will and Grace).
On talk radio, Danielle has anchored shows focusing on spirituality, paranormal phenomenon, and social commentary since 2004. Her weekly podcast, "InPsight Radio" (2018-present), is available on the Patreon platform for subscription, or in archives on iTunes, Spotify, Google Play, TuneIn and Stitcher.
Danielle Egnew lives in her home state of Montana with her wife, their teenage daughter, and their three dogs - Angelo, the mini American Eskimo, and Rubin and Sebastian, the Pomeranians.- Music Department
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Lydia Kavina is a composer, professional thereminist, and master teacher of the theremin. At age 9, Lydia began her study of the instrument with Professor Theremin, a first cousin of her grandfather. Her stage career as theremin player began at age 14. She studied musical theory and composition in Moscow at the Tschaikovsky State Conservatory. She has given over 600 performances in Russia, Europe, the USA and Brazil.- Music Department
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Bhavatharani R. was born on 23 July 1976 in Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. She was a composer and actress, known for Bharathi (2000), Azhagai Irukirai... Bayamai Irukiradhu (2006) and Mankatha (2011). She was married to R. Sabariraj. She died on 25 January 2024 in Sri Lanka.- Music Department
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Charlie Chan is known for Me Myself I (1999), The Monkey's Mask (2000) and McLeod's Daughters (2001).- Composer
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Ichiko Hashimoto is known for RahXephon (2002), RahXephon: The Motion Picture - Pluralitas Concentio (2003) and Tezuka's Barbara (2019).- Composer
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Janette Mason is a versatile composer with an ability to combine the latest technology with her natural flair for orchestration to create a diverse array of atmospheres and moods. Her adaptable, thoughtful approach enable her to respond imaginatively to a variety of commissions; from documentary film Paris was a Woman, the Documentary series' The Debt Machine and her latest commission, the Score for, The Calling, starring Brenda Blethyn and Susannah York. Drawing upon her eclectic influences and experience of working with top rock acts such as Pulp and Oasis, Janette forges her own original style combining acoustic and orchestral instruments. Fueled by a sense of humor and love of all things kitsch, Janette's compositions have also turned up on the Drew Carey Show, Sex and the City, the recent comedy hit feature film Zack and Miri Make a Porno, alongside advertisements for The Royal Bank of Scotland and Vanish Carpet Cleaner.
Originally training in classical piano and flute and attaining a Masters in Composition for Film and TV from the London College of Music, Janette turned professional at nineteen and cut her teeth in theater and TV, most memorably as keyboard player/MD for Jonathon Ross' Saturday Zoo and Antoine De Caunes' Le Show.
An 'inspired and inspiring' keyboard player and improviser, Janette has performed with a diversity of artists from legendary singer/songwriter Robert Wyatt, jazz artists Claire Martin, Ian Shaw, Lea DeLaria to top pop acts Suzanne Vega and Seal.
As a pianist and arranger Janette has many albums under her belt, including, Ian Shaw's Drawn to All things and Lea DeLaria's The Live Smoke Sessions which made the Grammy ballot in 2009.
Janette runs Fireball Music Productions alongside a successful performing career. Her debut album Din and Tonic was singled out for special praise,and her current release Alien Left Hand was nominated for A Parliamentary Jazz Award in the Best CD category 2010.- Music Department
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Janice Torre was born on 17 August 1914 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was a writer, known for The Alcoa Hour (1955), Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) and Song of My Heart (1948). She died on 21 February 1985.- Music Department
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Claire van Kampen was born on 3 November 1953 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. She is a composer and director, known for Days and Nights (2014). She has been married to Mark Rylance since 21 December 1989. She was previously married to Chris van Kampen.- Soundtrack
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Valentine Leone was born in Italy in 1975 and raised in Toronto, Canada. She was accepted and studied music in The Royal Conservatory of Toronto. She worked with Jellybean Benitez on Atlantic's "Spilling the Beans" and composed songs for several albums for BMG, RCA,CBS, A&M, Polydor and Columbia. She produced and scored the short film, "Ruth". Valentine is presently acting in two Canadian television shows. Jennifer Finnegan's hit song "One Beat Away", was written by Valentine.- Composer
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Elena Kats-Chernin was born on 4 November 1957 in Tashkent, Uzbek SSR, USSR [now Uzbekistan]. She is a composer, known for Mary and Max (2009), Michelle's Story (2015) and The Devious Path (1928).Menschen am Sonntag(1930) aka kaetz-Chernin- Composer
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Lindsay Cooper was born on 3 March 1951 in Hornsey, England, UK. She was a composer and actress, known for Orlando (1992), The Gold Diggers (1983) and Spy Trap (1972). She died on 18 September 2013 in London, England, UK.- Actress
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Jill Wisoff is an American film composer, songwriter, and actress, born in Queens, NY. She holds a B. A. in theater from Bennington College and an M. F. A. in Writing with a concentration in fiction from the New School. Living in the Bronx prior to two years in Frankfurt, Germany, while her physician father completed his army service, she completed first grade in Miami, eventually settling on Long Island with her parents and two siblings. She played flute and piccolo in Herricks public school marching bands, studied voice and composition in Manhattan School of Music's preparatory division, and taught folk guitar at Connecticut's Buck's Rock Work Camp. Her professional acting career began in musical stock at Long Island's Gateway Playhouse as company member and children's theater director. After attending the Neighborhood Playhouse, she performed in the Rocky Horror Disco Show in clubs of the era, including Ice Palace and Les Mouches, as a formative member of Creatures of the Night. She appeared in Obie-winning Theater for the New City's street theater while assistant to the producers, and in various productions off-off Broadway, including Leonard Melfi's Rosetti's Apologetics at TNC. As lead guitarist in bands during the burgeoning NYC punk scene, she eventually joined the all-girl reggae group Steppin' Razor in the early eighties while moonlighting as bassist in the New York Frets, a tristate country cover band. Her musical Phantom of the Disco was staged at the New York Theater Ensemble where she later directed Joan Crawford's Children, an ensemble piece created with an improvisational group. Introduced to NYU teaching assistant Todd Solondz, whom she music-assisted on an early film short, she would act and compose for his first feature films. In 1989 she toured as bassist and back-up singer in Johnny Thunders band, known as the Oddballs, throughout Europe, Canada, and the Midwest. In the Nineties, she was dramaturg and director of Southern playwright Stephen Jackson's debut production of Lethal Dose: 100 at American Theater for Actors, which won the Jean Dalrymple award, performed extensively with indie band The Con Artists, and continued to score for film and television. Into the new millennium, she script doctored and wrote screenplays for various producers, before her film directorial debut with Creating Karma.- Composer
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Mica Levi is a musician and composer born in Guildford, UK and living in South East London.
She has previously written music for films including Under The Skin (2014, dir. Jonathan Glazer), Jackie (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín), Monos (2018, dir. Alejandro Landes), Zola (2020, dir. Janicza Bravo) and Mangrove (2020, dir. Steve McQueen).- Producer
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Monica Dominique was born on 20 July 1940 in Västerås, Västmanlands län, Sweden. She is an actress and composer, known for Linus eller Tegelhusets hemlighet (1979), Repmånad eller Hur man gör pojkar av män (1979) and Höjdhoppar'n (1981). She is married to Carl-Axel Dominique.- Dulcie Holland is known for Pearlers of the Coral Sea (1960), The Shearers (1950) and The Melbourne Wedding Belle (1953).
- Marian McPartland was born on 20 March 1918 in Slough, Berkshire, England, UK. She was married to Jimmy McPartland. She died on 20 August 2013 in Port Washington, New York, USA.
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Sonia Wieder-Atherton was born in 1961 in San Francisco, California, USA. She is a composer and actress, known for Fosse (2020), La crise (1992) and A Couch in New York (1996). She was previously married to Chantal Akerman.- Music Department
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Christine Ott is a french composer, pianist, multi-instrumentist and 'ondist', one of the few Ondes Martenot masters in the world. "When, in 1928, Maurice Martenot creates for the first time the 'Ondes' that are to make him famous, he does not suspect that 80 years later, a small red-haired smuggler will strive to cross borders to his invention, ancestor of synthesizer. (Les Inrockuptibles, fr). Ott has published three albums: Solitude Nomade in 2009, Only Silence Remains in 2016, and an original soundtrack imagined on Murnau's Tabu in 2017. She wrote the original music for the feature film 'The End of Silence' (dir. Roland Edzard) in 2011 as well as several original scores for silent films (Nanook of The North, Lotte Reiniger's movies). She also collaborated with Yann Tiersen (on Amélie Poulain and Tabarly), Tindersticks (on 35 Shots of Rums and Bastards by Claire Denis), Oiseaux-Tempête (for Lea Fehrer's The Ogres), Syd Matters and Radiohead. In 2016, Tindersticks, Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott performed the music for Stuart A. Staples' Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith, whose O.S. and DVD were published under the City Slang / BFI label.- Composer
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Geri Allen was born on 12 June 1957 in Pontiac, Michigan, USA. She was a composer and actress, known for Drugstore Cowboy (1989), Kansas City (1996) and Afterglow (1997). She was married to Wallace Roney. She died on 27 June 2017 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.- Composer
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Carla Bley was born on 11 May 1936 in Oakland, California, USA. She was a composer, known for Deadly Circuit (1983), American Playhouse (1980) and Wear (2015). She was married to Michael Mantler and Paul Bley. She died on 17 October 2023 in Willow, New York, USA.- Composer
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Riki Lindhome was born in Coudersport, Pennsylvania but grew up primarily in Portville, New York (about 80 miles south of Buffalo). Her first break came when Tim Robbins cast her in his hit play, "Embedded", which played at the Public Theater in New York City, Riverside Studios in London and The Actor's Gang Theater in Los Angeles. Shortly after, Clint Eastwood cast her in her first film role, as "Mardell Fitzgerald" in Million Dollar Baby (2004). She also wrote and directed the award-winning short, Life Is Short (2006). Since then, she has found work in film, TV and commercials and performs in the LA-based comedy duo, Garfunkel & Oates, with Kate Micucci.- Costume and Wardrobe Department
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Azalia Snail started as a poet/writer in New York City, as well as a musician during the heyday of the indie/lo-fi rock music scene. She toured extensively through the 1990s with bands like Low, Trumans Water, and The Grifters and has jammed with Beck, The Black Heart Procession, Sportsguitar, and others. In late 1999, she moved to Los Angeles for new adventures and to work in film, becoming a costume designer for independent cinema. She has a few scripts in various stages of development. She was awarded an LA Weekly Music Award in 2000 for "Best New Genre."- Composer
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A versatile and multi award-winning American pianist, violinist, and composer, Jennifer Thomas performed as a soloist with symphonies and orchestras before striking out on her own as a successful recording artist in 2007. Jennifer's compositions and classical covers have found favor on the Billboard classical and classical crossover charts, and her music has been used in film, television, as well as in the sporting world as her music is a particular favorite in the international sport of figure skating and was featured in both the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games and 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
A native of Seattle, Washington, Jennifer began her formal musical training at home at the age of five-her mother is also a pianist and composer. She studied piano at Brigham Young University-Idaho, where she performed with the school's piano ensemble and played violin in its symphony. Upon graduating, the in-demand multi-instrumentalist performed with Salt Lake City's Murray Symphony, the Temple Square Concert Series, and the Oregon Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, and worked for the Seattle Symphony in their educational department. During this time Jennifer began composing her own pieces, drawing on her deep knowledge of classical music to craft instrumental works that were both steeped in tradition, and experimental and cinematic
Thomas has released 6 studio albums to date, the latest being The Fire Within featuring the English Session Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London, and Yamaha Entertainment in Nashville-which debuted at number three on the Billboard classical chart, number two on the Classical Crossover Chart, and #24 on the Heatseekers Chart (all genres).
Jennifer's music has been enjoyed in concert halls coast to coast from Carnegie Hall to Benaroya Hall both in solo format and with large symphony orchestras. Both her music and videos have garnered numerous awards and recognitions across the globe for her unique cinematic style, as well as earning over a half-billion worldwide streams on various streaming platforms, including being in the top 0.05% most listened to artists on Pandora. She is an active member of the Recording Academy (National Academy of Recording Arts Sciences), a member of the Alliance of Women Film Composers, an ascap member, and proud to be a Yamaha endorsed artist.
Jennifer produces all of her music independently, and is also represented by the Avex Entertainment Record Label in Asia.
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AllMusic: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jennifer-thomas-mn0001511229The Unoficials(2018) My Choice (2019)
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Umm Kulthum was born on 4 May 1904 in Tammay al-Zahayrah, Daqahliyah, Egypt. She was an actress and composer, known for Wedad (1936), Nashid al-Amal (1937) and Aydah (1942). She died on 3 February 1975 in Cairo, Egypt.- Music Artist
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On Saturday, June 15th, 1996, an era in jazz singing came to an end, with the death of Ella Fitzgerald at her home in California. She was the last of four great female jazz singers (including Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, and Carmen McRae) who defined one of the most prolific eras in jazz vocal style. Ella had extraordinary vocal skills from the time she was a teenager, and joined the Chick Webb Orchestra in 1935 when she was 16 years old. With an output of more than 200 albums, she was at her sophisticated best with the songs of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, of George Gershwin, and of Cole Porter. Her 13 Grammy awards are more than any other jazz performer, and she won the Best Female Vocalist award three years in a row. Completely at home with up-tempo songs, her scat singing placed her jazz vocals with the finest jazz instrumentalists, and it was this magnificent voice that she brought to her film appearances. Her last few years, during which she had a bout with congestive heart failure and suffered bilateral amputation of her legs from complications of diabetes, were spent in seclusion.- Lee Pui Ming was born in 1956 in Hong Kong, China. She is a composer, known for Thick Lips Thin Lips (1994), The Way We Are (2021) and Thank God I'm a Lesbian (1992).or Pui Ming Lee?
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Noriko Matsueda was born on 18 December 1971 in Tochigi, Japan. She is a composer, known for Chrono Trigger (1995), The Bouncer (2000) and Final Fantasy X-2 (2003).- Composer
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Mary Finsterer is known for Live Free or Die Hard (2007) and South Solitary (2010).- Actress
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Member of Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame Amy Denio composes for modern dance, film, theater and TV. She has a four-octave vocal range and plays guitar, bass, alto sax, clarinet and accordion. She has written more than 400 works and has produced over 50 recordings solo and in collaboration with artists worldwide. She operates her own recording studio, record label and publishing company, Spoot Music. She has won many awards and artistic fellowships for her prodigious output.
Her song cycle for chamber Orchestra 'Truth Is Up For Grabs' is composed for 21 instruments, and is created in collaboration with video artist James Drage. The first iteration in 2017 was supported by 4Culture in Seattle. In October, 2019 she presented the expanded and complete production at the Chapel Performance Space in Seattle, which was funded in part by Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts and Culture. She is producing short films from this work.
Other recent chamber works include a commission from Seattle Theater Group to compose a sound track for silent film 'Variete' (Dupont, 1925) which was premiered at the Paramount Theater in February 2019. She was also commissioned by Kino Lorber to score and performing/producing the sound track for 'A Daughter of the Law' (Cunard, 1921) which is included in their 'Women Pioneers of Cinema' DVD boxed set.
She has also created several multi-media works in collaboration with her internationally recognized group, the all-women Tiptons Saxophone Quartet. Shop of Wild Dreams was produced in collaboration with Croatian painter Daniel Zezelj and film maker Aric Mayer, and 'Mythunderstandings' involved Saanich Tribe story teller and musician Paul 'Che-oke-ten' Wagner and film maker Adam Sekuler
She scored 'The Naked Proof' (Hook, 2003), which premiered at SIFF, as well as several stop-motion animated films by Thomas Edward. She also makes short documentary films.
She's received the New York City Bessie Award for her soundtrack to David Dorfman Dance's piece 'Sky Down', many grants for projects from 4Culture, Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs and the Seattle Mayor's Award. She's been awarded fellowships at Civitella Ranieri in Italy and from Artist Trust to live in Ireland.
Denio has played concerts and taught musical workshops in festivals, clubs, squats, prisons, churches, sanctuaries, and subways on 6 continents ~ solo and with historic American rock trio Tone Dogs, her all-women sax quartet The Tiptons, Balkan group Kultur Shock, and many other international projects. Her compositions have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and from the top of Metro buses in Seattle.- Music Department
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Deborah Hurwitz is known for #Stuck (2014) and Elmopalooza! (1998).- Actress
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Melba Liston was born on 13 January 1926 in Missouri, USA. She was an actress and composer, known for Smile Orange (1976). She died on 23 April 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actress
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Veronika Harcsa was born on 8 October 1982 in Budapest, Hungary. She is an actress and composer, known for Zuhanórepülés (2007), Para (2008) and Night Falls (2023).- Actress
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Caroline Henderson was born in Stockholm (Sweden) but has lived in Copenhagen (Denmark) since 1983. She is known for her work on Always Yours (2007), Max Pinlig (2008) and Gooseboy (2019).
Caroline Henderson is starring as a series regular in 'Vikings: Valhalla' - the new Netflix Original spin-off series to 'Vikings'. Caroline portrays the role of JARL HAAKON, a great warrior and tolerant leader, who rules Kattegat with a steady hand. She's a powerful mentor to Freydis, who is drawn to her wisdom. She has appeared in several feature films, including 'Max Pinglig', in the role of the car mechanic SNEHVIDE, and 'Der var engang en dreng (som fik en lillesøster med vinger)', and in the Spanish feature film 'Tuya Siempre' who won three awards at the Malaga Film Festival.
In theater, she has both composed and performed on stage. In the early '90s, Caroline was associated with Dr. Dante and participated in among others the first Gasolin theater concert in 1994. Caroline starred in the Howard Barker play 'Død, død, meget død' under the direction of Jacob Schokking and to the great excitement of the critics, in Peter Langdal's production of Don Juan at the Betty Nansen Theater and in the Reumert-nominated dance performance 'Love Songs'.
In 2012, she made her own theater concert performance 'Jazz, Love & Henderson' at Østre Gasværk, which was seen by 20,000 spectators.
On television, Caroline Henderson has, among other things hosted the program series 'Midnatsjazz' on DR2, and participated in 'Smagsdommerne'. In 2012, she played the role of the mechanic Kim in 'Julestjerner, Wikke & Rasmussen's acclaimed Christmas calendar on DR.
Caroline Henderson was born in Stockholm, grew up in Philadelphia, New York, and Paris, and moved to Denmark in 1983. Already as a teenager, she sang in various jazz bands, and in 1989 she had her breakthrough in Denmark when she and Maria Bramsen formed the band RayDeeOh.
In 1995, Caroline Henderson's first solo album Cinemataztic was released. In 2013, she releases her 12th album in the year 2020. The records have also been released abroad, and over the years Caroline Henderson has received several nominations and won eight Danish Music Awards. Caroline Henderson tours both at home and abroad and has acted as a representative of Denmark on several official occasions, among others. a. during the Queen's state visit to Tanzania.
Caroline Henderson is Knight of Dannebrog.- Actress
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Composer and pianist who has made many records, she was educated at the Music Academy of Dairen and the Berklee School of Music (the latter on scholarship). She studied with Margaret Chaloff. She was piano soloist with the Japan Philharmonic, and a pianist in dance bands from 1948, forming the Toshiko-Mariano Quartet with her husband Charles Mariano. Her compositions include "A Jazz Suite for Strings, Woodwinds" (which received the Mademoiselle Award); "My Elegy"; and "Silhouette". Her popular songs include "Long Yellow Road" and "Between Me and Myself".- Composer
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Majken Christensen is known for #TheAssignment (2013).