- James Shearman is an English conductor, orchestrator, and composer. He is perhaps best known for his contributions to film scores including those for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Aladdin, Thor, Manchester by the Sea, Beauty and the Beast, and numerous others. He has collaborated frequently with composer, Patrick Doyle. In addition to his conducting and orchestration, Shearman is also a songwriter, having co-written the title track from Charlotte Church's 2000 album, Dream a Dream (among other songs). He regularly conducts notable orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra. Shearman was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2015.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Wikipedia
- James Shearman is a British composer, conductor and orchestrator. He is widely recognized as a premier conductor and orchestrator of film scores, having contributed to over 80 feature films including Beauty and the Beast (Disney), Manchester by the Sea (Amazon), Cinderella (Disney), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (FOX), Brave (Pixar), Bridget Jones's Diary (Working Title), Thor (Marvel), Shakespeare in Love (Universal), Gosford Park (Capitol), Murder on the Orient Express (FOX), and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Warner Bros).
In addition to his work in film soundtracks, Shearman regularly performs in the concert hall, conducting both film and concert music with some of the worlds leading orchestras including the Philharmonia Orchestra, ORF Vienna Radio Orchestra, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, City of Prague Philharmonic, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Shearman made his Royal Festival Hall début (2014) as guest conductor with the Philharmonia Orchestra in it's 'Philharmonia at the movies: Sci-Fi' concert series with a diverse program from Bach and Strauss, to Williams and Zimmer.
Shearman was born in England. He studied composition and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he won two composition prizes. In his final year of studies, as part of the Academy's annual music festival, Shearman was commissioned to compose a piece honouring the career of legendary film composer John Williams. The piece was premiered as part of the British Film Festival 1996 to John Williams himself, who was impressed with the composition and it's accomplished orchestration. Shearman has since orchestrated and/or conducted for many of Hollywood's Academy Award winning and/or nominated composers including Elliot Goldenthal, Mark Isham, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Alan Menken, John Powell, Hans Zimmer, and most notably Patrick Doyle, whom he has a particularly long standing and successful collaboration.
Recent highlights of the 2017/18 season include sharing the conducting duties with legendary American conductor John Mauceri for the televised Hollywood in Vienna 10th anniversary gala concert Fairytales with Danny Elfman. Conducting the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra in a program that included British film music plus Holst's The Planets in Doha Qatar, and conducting a program of Mozart with the City of Prague Philharmonic for the Czech premiere of the Prague Shakespeare Company's English language version of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer.
Recent Film highlights include Orchestrating Alan Menken's score for Beauty and the Beast (Disney 2017) and conducting and co-orchestrating Patrick Doyle's score for Kenneth Branagh's Murder on the Orient Express (FOX).
Shearman is also a composer who has written film scores, concert music, an original musical and several Gold and Platinum album selling classical cross-over songs. He co-wrote the U.S. platinum selling song Dream a Dream (Sony Classical) recorded by Charlotte Church, which sold over 1.6 million copies in the U.S alone.
In 2015 Shearman was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, awarded to former Academy students who have distinguished themselves within the music profession. He resides in London, UK.- IMDb Mini Biography By: james-shearman
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