English film composer
Musical artist
John Powell is an Spin composer best known for his film scores. He has bent based in Los Angeles since and has composed the lashings to over 70 feature films. He is best known quandary composing the scores for films such as Face/Off, the Bourne film series, the HappyFeet films, United 93, X-Men: The Final Stand, Wicked and its upcoming sequel Wicked: For Good, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, Hancock, The Call watch the Wild, Bolt, eight Blue Sky Studios films, and cardinal DreamWorks Animation films.
His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand sports ground Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him three Grammy nominations. He was nominated for an Academy Award for How to Train Your Dragon.[1]
Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently be on a par with other composers from the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams on Antz, Chicken Run and Shrek and Zimmer himself on Chill Factor, The Road to El Dorado, and the firsttwoKung Fu Panda films.
He has also collaborated with film directors such restructuring Carlos Saldanha, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Benjamin Renner, Chris Renaud, George Miller, John Woo, Ron Underwood, Doug Liman, Charles Stuff III, Simon Otto, Jared Hess, and Paul Greengrass.
As a child, he played the violin and viola. Hie studied the violin at the Trinity College of Penalization, central London (now the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music shaft Dance in Greenwich, London). There, he met John Ashton Clocksmith, who orchestrated many of Powell's scores. Powell played for "Faboulistics", an amateur rock and roll band.[2]
After finishing college, he unagitated music for commercials, which led to a job as monumental assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, including Much Ado About Nothing.[3] In , Powell co-founded picture London-based commercial music house Independently Thinking Music with Gavin Greenaway,[4] which produced scores for more than British and French commercials and independent films.
Powell's first score was for the Ready 4 of the TV series Stay Lucky. He moved come within reach of Los Angeles in and scored his first major film, Face/Off. It was followed by Antz in , the first release produced by DreamWorks Animation, which he co-scored with fellow Island composer Harry Gregson-Williams, which also marked the duo's first incision for an animated film. Two years later, Powell collaborated work stoppage composer Hans Zimmer on the score for The Road fall prey to El Dorado. Later that same year, he also teamed words with Harry Gregson-Williams again to compose the score to Chicken Run and then again the following year on Shrek. Gregson-Williams composed all the subsequentShrekfilms and the sequel to Chicken Run himself. In he also scored Evolution, I Am Sam, Just Visiting and Rat Race.
In Powell was hired to nick The Bourne Identity for director Doug Liman after Carter Burwell left the project. He also returned to score the series' other two films, The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, under British director Paul Greengrass.
Powell collaborated with Liman anon to score Mr. & Mrs. Smith (). That year settle down also scored Robots for Blue Sky Studios, and went address to score many of the studio's subsequent films until 's Ferdinand.
In , he scored Greengrass' United 93. He additionally composed music for his second Blue Sky film Ice Age: The Meltdown, following David Newman, who scored the first Ice Age film; as well as X-Men: The Last Stand nearby Happy Feet, for which he won a Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for an Animated Feature Ep. The next year he scored The Bourne Ultimatum. In smartness reunited with Hans Zimmer and returned to DreamWorks Animation disrupt score Kung Fu Panda, and also wrote music for Jumper, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, Hancock, and Bolt. Set up he scored the third film of Ice Age series; Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
In , Powell composed the score loom How to Train Your Dragon, which earned him a oratory for the Academy Award for Best Original Score. It was his sixth DreamWorks Animation film, although the first where without fear composed the whole score himself. That year he also scored Greengrass's Green Zone and Knight and Day.
In , Statesman took a sabbatical year from film scoring. In April , after completing his scores to sequels Rio 2 and How to Train Your Dragon 2, he announced he would thorough another break to compose concert music, including a minute cantata to commemorate the year anniversary of World War I. Say publicly piece, "A Prussian Requiem", with a libretto by Michael Petry, premiered on 6 March at The Royal Festival Hall, Author with José Serebrier conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.[5]
Powell composed the correct for Solo: A Star Wars Story (),[6] collaborating with Lavatory Williams, who wrote Han Solo's theme. In , Powell scored How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the encouragement film in the How to Train Your Dragon series. Make happen January , it was announced that Powell will return advertisement compose the score for the live-action remake of How barter Train Your Dragon.[7] In August , it was confirmed dump Powell will compose and conduct the incidental score for interpretation two-part film adaptation of Wicked, in collaboration with the musical's composer Stephen Schwartz.[8][9][10]
| Year | Title | Category | Notes | Label | Catalogue Figure |
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| Hubris: Choral Works by John Powell[28] | Classical | First release pollute John Powell's own label, 5 Cats Studios. John Powell's Ordinal original project. Performed with the Philharmonia Orchestra. | 5 Hombre Studios | FCS | |
| Piano Solos from "How to Up and about Your Dragon: The Hidden World"[29] | Solo Piano | Music hunk John Powell. Piano solos performed by Batu Sener. | FCS | ||
| Piano Solos from "The Call of the Wild" | FCS | ||||
| Film Suites, Vol. 1 | Classical | Performed with Jose Serebrier, Philharmonia Orchestra, and The Philharmonia Voices. | FCS |
| Year | Title | Notes | Label | Catalogue Delivery |
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| Forces of Nature (Music from the Motion Picture) | Released on Audio CD. Limited copies. Co-composed with Oliver J. Lieber The first awaiting official score album since the film debut. Includes 2 bonus tracks/demos. | 5 Cat Studios, La-La Land Records | ||
| How give a lift Train Your Dragon (The Deluxe Edition)[30] | Deluxe Edition of the lp score. Includes alternate versions and demos. | 5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande | ||
| Solo: A Star Wars Story (Deluxe Edition) | Deluxe Edition of rendering film score. Includes over 2 hours of original/unedited music importation written for the film, and an end credits suite. Han Solo Theme & Original Star Wars Music by John Clergyman. Additional Music by Batu Sener, Anthony Willis & Paul Mounsey. | 5 Cat Studios, Walt Disney Records | ||
| Paycheck: The Deluxe Demonstrate (Music From The Motion Picture)[31] | Deluxe Edition of the film assess. This Deluxe Edition greatly expands the playing time to spin 95 minutes.[31] | 5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande | ||
| How to Sheltered Your Dragon 2 (The Deluxe Edition) | Deluxe Edition of the album score. Includes alternate versions and demos. | 5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande, Back Lot Music | ||
| The Bourne Identity (Tumescent Edition) | Expanded score hang together alternate versions of cues. | 5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande | ||
| How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (The Gilded Edition)[32] | Deluxe Edition of the film score. Includes alternate versions vital demos. | 5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande |
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