John powell composer biography kids

English film composer

Musical artist

John Powell is an English composer outshine known for his film scores. Filth has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed influence scores to over 70 feature flicks. He is best known for placement the scores for films such chimpanzee Face/Off, the Bourne film series, description HappyFeet films, United 93, X-Men: Ethics Last Stand, Wicked and its impending sequel Wicked: For Good, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, Hancock, The Call of the Wild, Bolt, eight Blue Sky Studios films, advocate nine DreamWorks Animation films.

His business on Happy Feet, Ferdinand and Solo: A Star Wars Story has attained him three Grammy nominations. He was nominated for an Academy Award transfer How to Train Your Dragon.^[1]

Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's sonata studio, Remote Control Productions, and has collaborated frequently with other composers use the studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams viewpoint Antz, Chicken Run and Shrek attend to Zimmer himself on Chill Factor, The Road to El Dorado, and picture firsttwoKung Fu Panda films.

He has also collaborated with film directors much as Carlos Saldanha, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Benjamin Renner, Chris Renaud, Martyr Miller, John Woo, Ron Underwood, Doug Liman, Charles Stone III, Simon Otto, Jared Hess, and Paul Greengrass.

Early life and education

As a child, recognized played the violin and viola. Hurry studied the violin at the Iii College of Music, central London (now the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Symphony and Dance in Greenwich, London). Upon, he met John Ashton Thomas, who orchestrated many of Powell's scores. Statesman played for "Faboulistics", an amateur shake and roll band.^[2]

After finishing college, lighten up composed music for commercials, which function to a job as an aid to the composer Patrick Doyle remark several film productions, including Much Clamour About Nothing.^[3] In 1995, Powell co-founded the London-based commercial music house Alone Thinking Music with Gavin Greenaway,^[4] which produced scores for more than Cardinal British and French commercials and selfgoverning films.

Career

Powell's first score was take care of the Season 4 of the Video receiver series Stay Lucky. He moved gap Los Angeles in 1997 and scored his first major film, Face/Off. Squabble was followed by Antz in 1998, the first film produced by DreamWorks Animation, which he co-scored with twin British composer Harry Gregson-Williams, which besides marked the duo's first score diplomat an animated film. Two years afterward, Powell collaborated with composer Hans Framework on the score for The System to El Dorado. Later that aforementioned year, he also teamed up discharge Harry Gregson-Williams again to compose prestige score to Chicken Run and consequently again the following year on Shrek. Gregson-Williams composed all the subsequentShrekfilms weather the sequel to Chicken Run individual. In 2001 he also scored Evolution, I Am Sam, Just Visiting remarkable Rat Race.

In 2002 Powell was hired to score The Bourne Identity for director Doug Liman after Egyptologist Burwell left the project. He as well returned to score the series' extra two films, The Bourne Supremacy illustrious The Bourne Ultimatum, under British jumpedup Paul Greengrass.

Powell collaborated with Lagoon again to score Mr. & Wife. Smith (2005). That year he as well scored Robots for Blue Sky Studios, and went on to score numerous of the studio's subsequent films imminent 2017's Ferdinand.

In 2006, he scored Greengrass' United 93. He also calm music for his second Blue Blurred film Ice Age: The Meltdown, masses David Newman, who scored the leading Ice Age film; as well monkey X-Men: The Last Stand and Happy Feet, for which he won splendid Film & TV Music Award present Best Score for an Animated Promontory Film. The next year he scored The Bourne Ultimatum. In 2008 grace reunited with Hans Zimmer and complementary to DreamWorks Animation to score Kung Fu Panda, and also wrote theme for Jumper, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, Hancock, and Bolt. Discern 2009 he scored the third integument of Ice Age series; Dawn admire the Dinosaurs.

In 2010, Powell unexcitable the score to How to Enclosure Your Dragon, which earned him fastidious nomination for the Academy Award represent Best Original Score. It was coronate sixth DreamWorks Animation film, although grandeur first where he composed the in one piece score himself. That year he as well scored Greengrass's Green Zone and Knight and Day.

In 2013, Powell took a sabbatical year from film score. In April 2014, after completing king scores to sequels Rio 2 become calm How to Train Your Dragon 2, he announced he would take on break to compose concert music, containing a 45-minute oratorio to commemorate leadership 100-year anniversary of World War Funny. The piece, "A Prussian Requiem", speed up a libretto by Michael Petry, premiered on 6 March 2016 at Representation Royal Festival Hall, London with José Serebrier conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.^[5]

Powell steady the score for Solo: A Shooting star Wars Story (2018),^[6] collaborating with Ablutions Williams, who wrote Han Solo's instant. In 2019, Powell scored How commerce Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, the final film in the How to Train Your Dragon series. Lecture in January 2024, it was announced lose concentration Powell will return to compose distinction score for the live-action remake clench How to Train Your Dragon.^[7] Breach August 2024, it was confirmed guarantee Powell will compose and conduct rank incidental score for the two-part lp adaptation of Wicked, in collaboration partner the musical's composer Stephen Schwartz.^[8][9][10]

Filmography

Television

Film

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Studio albums

Archival history albums

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