Brad Fiedel
Brad Ira Fiedel ( born March 10, 1951 in New York) is an American film composer. Fiedel composed the music for nearly 100 feature and television films, as well as some television series.
Life and work
At the age of six he began playing the piano. In the 1970s, he accompanied on keyboards the pop duo Hall & Oates on tour. During this time he began to work as a composer for television and for smaller film productions.
His most famous work is the music for the films The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day by Canadian director James Cameron. The music for Terminator was produced with synthesizers and an electronically amplified violin. This mode of production was due in part to a limited budget, which allowed no symphony orchestra. Despite a much higher budget for Terminator 2 fiddle produced the music for this film again now done electronically, this time with the help of samplers, with whom he sounds ( for example, machinery) digitized and used as sound material. With this production, he stood up against the mainstream of orchestral film music, which appeared to him not suitable for this film. Of this he had to convince the initially skeptical Cameron.
Fiedel is married to the actress Ann Dusenberry and lives in Santa Barbara, California, where he is particularly involved in voluntary work for the local Waldorf school.
Awards
- ASCAP Film and Television Music Award for Terminator 2: Judgment Day and True Lies.