Mark Isham

Mark Isham’s musical path did not run in a straight line toward film composition. However, his early experiences in the Oakland and San Francisco Symphonies as well as the time spent with Van Morrison, Art Lande and Pharoah Sanders left him ready and able to deal with whatever compositional challenges came his way. Though he…

Mark Isham on Scoring October Sky

How did you get the assignment to score OCTOBER SKY? Have you worked with director Joe Johnston before? I have, actually, on a theatrical commercial for an electric car. ILM did some really cool special effects. I won a CLEO and several other people won CLEOs for that. So we had met on that. We…