This public conversation between Toru Takemitsu and Karsten Witt (General Manager of the “Konzerthaus” in Vienna) took place during the Contemporary Music Festival on Nov.4, 1993. The interview was recorded and transcribed by Wolfgang Breyer, and edited for publication by Randall D. Larson. You were born in 1930 and started to study composition at the…
Trevor Jones emerged as a composer of note when he scored THE DARK CRYSTAL in 1982. While he had previously composed the music for EXCALIBUR the year before, that music was overshadowed by excessive use of operatic chorales and it wasn’t until Jim Henson’s elaborate puppet fantasy that Jones’ music shone in its own symphonic…
Composer Trevor Morris has recently been put into the spotlight of film music collectors via his haunting and highly original scores for the Showtime television series THE TUDORS which has had huge success all around the world. His music for this series literally made the film music community sit up and take notice and also…
Tuomas Kantelinen, is one of the brightest stars within the cosmos of film scoring, his highly original and innovative music has ingratiated numerous movies and television productions. Born on September 22nd in Finland, he won the Finnish Jussi Award for Best Film Music in 1997 and 1999 and was awarded the Finnish Art Critics’ award…
Vincent Gillioz was raised in the French speaking city of Geneva, Switzerland. He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, earning a dual bachelor’s degree - Summa Cum Laude - in Film Scoring & Performance. Upon graduation from Berklee, Vincent returned to Europe to study composition and orchestration at the Geneva Conservatory of Music…
Xavier Capellas, born in Barcelona, Spain, started his music career as a jazz pianist and took a detour towards composition in his twenties, studying Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music and the University of Southern California. Since 1990, Capellas has been composing for films and TV, and worked with directors such as Montxo Armendáriz…
Composer, musician Zaalen Tallis, was born in Perth, Western Australia. Amongst other things Zaalen is a composer of film music and has worked on numerous shorts and features. He writes scripts, takes an active role in making movies and also plays in bands; he is an individual who lives for the world of creativity. He…
Zacarías M. de la Riva studied at the Berklee College of Music (Boston) where he accomplished a double major in Composition and Film Scoring (1997). Back in Spain, he began his career with novel directors and composed his first scores for different short films, and his first feature film JAIZKIBEL (by Ibon Cormenzana). In 2000,…
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