Film score composers

Allah Rakha Rahman (born Friday January 6, 1967 as A.S. Dileep Kumar in Chennai, India) is a popular Indian film music composer. He is a native Tamilian. He made his debut in 1992 with Mani Ratnam's Tamil movie, Roja (Rose), which was subsequently dubbed into many languages. Ram Gopal Verma's Rangeela (Colorful) (1995) was the first Hindi movie to have Rahman as the music director. He is a recipient of the Padma Shri. ...more on Wikipedia about "A. R. Rahman"

Aaron Copland ( November 14 1900 – December 2 1990) was an American composer of concert and film music. Instrumental in forging a uniquely American style of composition, he was widely known as "the dean of American composers." Copland's music achieved a difficult balance between modern music and American folk styles, and the open, slowly changing harmonies of many of his works are said to evoke the vast American landscape. He incorporated percussive orchestration, changing meter, polyrhythms, polychords and tone rows. Outside of composing, Copland often served as a teacher and lecturer. During his career he also wrote books and articles, and served as a conductor, most frequently for his own works. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aaron Copland"

Adam Berry is an Emmy-nominated television and film composer. His credits include South Park , Kim Possible, The Buzz on Maggie, Beethoven's Fifth, Hood Rat, Balto 2, Balto 3, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command etc ...more on Wikipedia about "Adam Berry"

Alanis Menken (born July 22, 1949) is a Jewish-American Broadway and film music composer. He has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1951-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. Menken is best known for his work on several Disney animated features, including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. His first successful work was the 1982 Off-Broadway musical Little Shop of Horrors. To date, Menken has received eight Academy Awards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Menken"

Alan Silvestri (b. March 26, 1950, New York City) is an American film composer. He is known for his numerous collaborations with director Robert Zemeckis, including his work on Forrest Gump (1994), the Back to the Future trilogy (1985,1989–1990), Contact (1997), Cast Away (2000), Romancing the Stone (1984), The Polar Express (2004), and others. He received Oscar nominations for Best Original Soundtrack for Forrest Gump and Best Song for "Believe" on The Polar Express Soundtrack, and a Grammy Award nomination for the music from Cast Away. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Silvestri"

Alastair King (born 1967) is a British composer, perhaps best known for his music for film and television. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alastair King"

Alex Wurman, (born October 5 1966), is a composer hailing from Chicago. Mr. Wurman has written many film scores, including those for Hollywood Homicide, Anchorman, and March of the Penguins. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alex Wurman"

Alexandre Tansman ( June 12, 1897, Łódź– November 15, 1986) was a prolific composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life. His music is primarily neoclassical, drawing on his Polish and Jewish heritage as well as his French musical influences. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexandre Tansman"

Alfred Newman ( March 17, 1900 – February 17, 1970) was a major Jewish-American composer of music for films. He received 45 Academy Award nominations (a record in the music categories), winning 9 times; in 1940 he was nominated for 4 different films. He also composed the familiar fanfare which accompanies the studio logo for 20th Century Fox, where he headed the music department. He was active until the end of his life, scoring Airport shortly before his death. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Newman"

Alfred Garyevich Schnittke ( Russian: Альфре́д Га́ррьевич Шни́тке, November 24, 1934 – August 3, 1998) was a Russian- German Jewish composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred Schnittke"

André Previn (born April 6, 1929)¹ is a prominent pianist, orchestral conductor, and composer. (Previn himself is unsure in which year he was born, as his birth certificate was lost when he emigrated to the United States.) ...more on Wikipedia about "André Previn"

Andrew Hewitt is a composer for film and television. He was nominated for a BAFTA award for Best New Composer for Film and TV of 2004 for his score to Garth Marenghi's "Darkplace". ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrew Hewitt"

Angela Morley (born March 10, 1924) is a composer and conductor who wrote the theme tune and incidental music for Hancock's Half Hour and also wrote and conducted music for The Goon Show. She attributes her entry into successful composing and arranging largely to the influence and encouragement of the Canadian light music composer Robert Farnon. Morley wrote the score for the 1978 film version of Watership Down. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angela Morley"

Angelo Badalamenti (born March 22, 1937) is a music composer, best known for his movie soundtrack work for surrealist movie director David Lynch. ...more on Wikipedia about "Angelo Badalamenti"

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Ann Ronell ( December 28, 1906 or 1908 Omaha, Nebraska - December 25, 1993) was a Jewish-American composer and lyricist best known for the jazz standard " Willow Weep For Me" (1932). She is a former student of Walter Piston. She was married to producer Lester Cowan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ann Ronell"

Anne Dudley (born 1956-05-07) is an orchestral composer and pop musician and was the BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association between January 2002 and January 2005. She has worked in both the classical and pop genres. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anne Dudley"

Antoine Duhamel, born July 30, 1925 is a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher. ...more on Wikipedia about "Antoine Duhamel"

Aram Ilich Khachaturian ( Armenian: Արամ Խաչատրյան, Aram Xačatryan; Russian: Аpaм Ильич Xaчaтypян, Aram Il'ič Hačaturjan) ( June 6, 1903 – May 1, 1978) was a composer of classical music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aram Khachaturian"

Basil Poledouris (born August 21, 1945, in Kansas City, Missouri) is a film soundtrack composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Basil Poledouris"

Bear McCreary (b. February 17, 1979) is a classically trained composer and musician living in Los Angeles, California. He studied under Elmer Bernstein and has composed original music for over thirty films including Jon Chu's musical short When the Kids are Away. He is currently scoring his second season of the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bear McCreary"

Benjamin Frankel ( January 31 1906 – February 12 1973) was a British composer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benjamin Frankel" The Ultimate www.shortopedia.com Machine. Film_score_composers

Bernard Herrmann ( June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was a composer, best known for his film scores, particularly for those directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He wrote the scores for Citizen Kane, Cape Fear and Taxi Driver as well as for the original radio broadcast of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds. He also wrote scores for television programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bernard Herrmann"

Brad Fiedel (born March 10, 1951 in New York, New York) is an American film composer. Although he is most known for his electronic scores for The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, both directed by James Cameron, Fiedel works in a variety of genres. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brad Fiedel"

Brian Easdale ( 10 August 1909 - 30 October 1995) was a composer born in Manchester, England. His works include the operas Rapunzel (1927), The Corn King (1935, not released until 1950) and The Sleeping Children (1951). He was well-known for his orchestral works ( Five pieces for Orchestra, Six Poems, Tone Poem) and also composed film and theatre music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brian Easdale"

Brian Tyler is a composer who has written, arranged, and conducted musical scores for television and film. His television work includes the 2003 Sci-Fi channel miniseries Children of Dune and his film work includes the 2005 supernatural action film Constantine. He is also signed with Sony Music as a songwriter. His composition "Fourth Floor (score)" was featured on the soundtrack to the 2001 film The Fast and the Furious. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brian Tyler (composer)"

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