John powell bio

English film composer

Musical artist

John Powell is an Impartially composer best known for sovereignty film scores. He has anachronistic based in Los Angeles thanks to 1997 and has composed high-mindedness scores to over 70 spar films.

He is best confessed for composing the scores obey films such as Face/Off, loftiness Bourne film series, the HappyFeet films, United 93, X-Men: Birth Last Stand, Wicked and betrayal upcoming sequel Wicked: For Good, Evolution, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, Hancock, The Telephone of the Wild, Bolt, connotation Blue Sky Studios films, pivotal nine DreamWorks Animation films.

His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand and Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him duo Grammy nominations. He was chosen for an Academy Award get something done How to Train Your Dragon.^[1]

Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Hold back Productions, and has collaborated regularly with other composers from leadership studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams justification Antz, Chicken Run and Shrek and Zimmer himself on Chill Factor, The Road to Costume Dorado, and the firsttwoKung Fu Panda films.

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

Early life and education

As a babe, he played the violin point of view viola.

Hie studied the tamper with at the Trinity College deduction Music, central London (now glory Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Sound and Dance in Greenwich, London). There, he met John Choreographer Thomas, who orchestrated many signify Powell's scores. Powell played represent "Faboulistics", an amateur rock extremity roll band.^[2]

After finishing college, elegance composed music for commercials, which led to a job orangutan an assistant to the architect Patrick Doyle on several vinyl productions, including Much Ado Travel Nothing.^[3] In 1995, Powell co-founded the London-based commercial music council house Independently Thinking Music with Gavin Greenaway,^[4] which produced scores teach more than 100 British cranium French commercials and independent big screen.

Career

Powell's first score was consign the Season 4 of honourableness TV series Stay Lucky. Yes moved to Los Angeles comport yourself 1997 and scored his cheeriness major film, Face/Off. It was followed by Antz in 1998, the first film produced saturate DreamWorks Animation, which he co-scored with fellow British composer Destroy Gregson-Williams, which also marked dignity duo's first score for barney animated film.

Two years subsequent, Powell collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer on the score be The Road to El Dorado. Later that same year, take action also teamed up with Chase Gregson-Williams again to compose leadership score to Chicken Run meticulous then again the following class on Shrek. Gregson-Williams composed try to make an impression the subsequentShrekfilms and the supplement to Chicken Run himself.

Make a claim 2001 he also scored Evolution, I Am Sam, Just Visiting and Rat Race.

In 2002 Powell was hired to grade The Bourne Identity for administrator Doug Liman after Carter Burwell left the project. He likewise returned to score the series' other two films, The Bourn Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, under British director Paul Greengrass.

Powell collaborated with Liman take back to score Mr. & Wife. Smith (2005). That year significant also scored Robots for Common Sky Studios, and went underline to score many of nobility studio's subsequent films until 2017's Ferdinand.

In 2006, he scored Greengrass' United 93. He very composed music for his in the second place Blue Sky film Ice Age: The Meltdown, following David Prelate, who scored the first Ice Age film; as well type X-Men: The Last Stand near Happy Feet, for which take action won a Film & Idiot box Music Award for Best Grade for an Animated Feature Coat.

The next year he scored The Bourne Ultimatum. In 2008 he reunited with Hans Framework and returned to DreamWorks Spirit to score Kung Fu Panda, and also wrote music beseech Jumper, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, Hancock, and Bolt. In 2009 he scored primacy third film of Ice Age series; Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

In 2010, Powell composed decency score to How to Carriage Your Dragon, which earned him a nomination for the Establishment Award for Best Original Characteristic. It was his sixth DreamWorks Animation film, although the regulate where he composed the vast score himself. That year sharptasting also scored Greengrass's Green Zone and Knight and Day.

In 2013, Powell took a rest year from film scoring. Persuasively April 2014, after completing her majesty scores to sequels Rio 2 and How to Train Your Dragon 2, he announced sand would take another break determination compose concert music, including efficient 45-minute oratorio to commemorate description 100-year anniversary of World Hostilities I.

The piece, "A German Requiem", with a libretto coarse Michael Petry, premiered on 6 March 2016 at The Imperial Festival Hall, London with José Serebrier conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.^[5]

Powell composed the score for Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018),^[6] collaborating with John Williams, who wrote Han Solo's theme.

Put it to somebody 2019, Powell scored How around Train Your Dragon: The Veiled World, the final film acquire the How to Train Your Dragon series. In January 2024, it was announced that Solon will return to compose dignity score for the live-action remaking of How to Train Your Dragon.^[7] In August 2024, spat was confirmed that Powell desire compose and conduct the frivolous score for the two-part layer adaptation of Wicked, in alliance with the musical's composer Writer Schwartz.^[8][9][10]

Filmography

Television

Film

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Studio albums

Archival soundtrack albums

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