Composer Profile – Page 3 – Film Music Institute

Peter Calandra, New York City-based composer has recently scored ESPN’s ‘Pat XO’ in which a special screening will occur at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, Sunday 4/21 and Saturday 4/27

04Mar2013

Interview with Alex Heffes

By Daniel Schweiger
March 4, 2013
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Impactfully playing love, and the postwar culture clash of “Emperor”

07Jan2013

Interview with Atli Örvarsson

By Daniel Schweiger
January 7, 2013
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A witch-hunting the Icelandic composer goes with Hansel and Gretel

03Dec2012

Interview with Fernando Velázquez

By Daniel Schweiger
December 3, 2012
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Nothing is “Impossible” for this Spanish composer when playing emotion amidst catastrophe for a true-life disaster film

05Nov2012

Interview with Thomas Newman

By Daniel Schweiger
November 5, 2012
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Nobody does it better when straddling experimental and mainstream scoring in Hollywood. Now Thomas Newman talks about getting his big action score shot for “Skyfall”

02Oct2012

Interview with Nathaniel Méchaly

By Daniel Schweiger
October 2, 2012
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The French composer is back in Luc and Liam’s company with a very special set of action scoring skills for scoring “Taken 2”

04Sep2012

Interview with Marcelo Zarvos

By Daniel Schweiger
September 4, 2012
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A rising composer of quality dramas hears the lush, lying sound of “The Words”

06Aug2012

Interview With Anton Sanko

By Daniel Schweiger
August 6, 2012
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An indie composer finds a new world of orchestral horror after opening a Dybbuk Box

02Jul2012

Interview with “Savage”‘s Adam Peters

By Daniel Schweiger
July 2, 2012
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An ex-Bunnyman hops between two alt. score borders in his feature scoring debut for Olvier’s Stone’s return to savage form

01May2012

Interview with Alan Silvestri

By Daniel Schweiger
May 1, 2012
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A composer who excells in larger-than-life heroism assembles his powers to play Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

11Apr2012

Interview with David Julyan

By Daniel Schweiger
April 11, 2012
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The “Descent” composer scores the ultimate horror of manipulation

05Mar2012

Interview with Javier Navarrete

By Daniel Schweiger
March 5, 2012
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The Spanish composer fights with Hollywood’s Greek Gods to take on “The Wrath of the Titans”

06Feb2012

Interview with Jeff Grace

By Daniel Schweiger
February 6, 2012
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One of horror scoring’s creepiest composers scares up some ghosts with “The Innkeepers”

17Jan2012

Interview with Dickon Hinchliffe

By Daniel Schweiger
January 17, 2012
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The English alt. rock leader of Tindersticks puts his eclectic spin on scoring as he rises in the Hollywood mainstream with “Winter’s Bone” and “Rampart”

05Dec2011

Interview With Howard Shore

By Daniel Schweiger
December 5, 2011
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From “Hugo”’s magic of the movies to the delicate angst of “Dangerous”’ psychotherapy and a live “Lord of the Rings” performance, ‘tis the season for Howard Shore

08Nov2011