Elia CmÃral
Elijah David Cmíral ( born October 1, 1950 in Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech composer.
Life
Elijah David Cmíral was born the son of an actress and grandson of a professor of the Prague Academy of Music in an artistic environment full of literature, music and drama. And after he already as a 11 -year-old tried to compose his first symphony, it was his stepfather, who was himself a theater director and a 18 -year-old hired him for his theater production about the French writer Cyrano de Bergerac for the first time as a composer. He then studied composition at the Prague Conservatory before emigrating in 1980 to Sweden, where for a year he studied electronic music at one years Elektronmusikstudion (EMS ) in Stockholm. From there, he went in 1987 to the United States to take part in the composition program at the University of Southern California may. After he graduated he did not get from Sweden again offers to write film music, so he returned then again, however, before he wrote the soundtrack of the thriller Apartment Zero within 10 days.
And after he vid, among other things Flickan stenbänken in Sweden, Rose Holm and Barnens Detektivbyrå composed, he returned in 1993 returned to the U.S., where he had his greatest success among other things, with the action thriller Ronin, in which he replaced Jerry Goldsmith as composer. It was followed by further action, horror, mystery and thriller films like Wrong Turn, Species III, Pulse - You're dead before you die and Piranha 2
Cmíral is married to a Japanese woman, with whom he has a daughter.