Jacob Groth

Jacob Groth ( born 1949 ) is a Danish composer. Since the late 1970s, he has more than 30 film and television projects contributed the music, including the International Emmy winning series Unit One - The Experts, The Eagle and Unge Andersen.

Biography

Jacob Groth devoted himself initially to rock music and played in the 1960s and 1970s in several bands, a named it after himself at the invitation of his childhood friend Rumle Hammerich he began in the late 1970's Music for the completion of projects from film students at the Danish Film School to compose. First experiences gained Groth at Søren Kragh- Jacobsen's feature film debut Vil du se min smukke Navle? (1978). His professional debut as a responsible film composer, he was a year later with Henning Kristiansens drama Charly & Steffen (1979).

The initial acquaintance with Kragh -Jacobsen led to a decade-long collaboration. Groth took over, among others, the background music to The boys from St. Petri ( 1991), The Hunting of the magical water wheel (1993) and Skagerrak (2003 ), while his children's film laburnum first time in 1989 to Robert, the price of the Danish Film Academy earned. Since the early 1980s, he took over the same job for his friend, filmmaker Rumle Hammerich (including Otto is a rhino, 1983; Fasadklättraren, 1991; Deadly Desire, 1992; wanted Grandpa, 1994;! Headhunters, 2009). Similarly, Groth was responsible for the jingles of Kragh- Jacobsen and Eric Hamm internationally award-winning DR- TV productions The Eagle and Unge Andersen.

Groth appreciates film compositions, as these give him greater artistic freedom and timeless as, for example, would be pop music. " Most of my work includes music that you would not notice. But that does not mean that the music is not important, it must be something that can not be an ordinary piece of music, because it would be too powerful. The music has to be almost transparent, transparent, in order to create a dialogue, "said Groth, 2005 in an interview. The work for him begins when writing the film script in collaboration with producer, director and screenwriters. Because of its different styles of music (for example, Blues for the TV series taxa; spherical, oriented on Icelandic mythology singing with The Eagle ), the composer referred to himself as a " mood chameleon ".

Since the television series taxa Groth also works regularly with the film and television director Niels Arden Oplev. For the drama Worlds Apart, Denmark's official entry for the nomination for the best foreign language film at the Academy Awards in 2009, he again received the prize of the Danish Film Academy awarded.

Groth's been the biggest international success was Oplevs feature film delusion. The soundtrack for the eponymous best-selling film based on Stieg Larsson, which should earn him a nomination for the European Film Awards, he presented in 2009 together with the Copenhagen athelas Symphony Orchestra during the " préludes Musicaux " in Cannes.

Filmography (selection)

Awards

European Film Awards

• 2009: nominated for Best Film Score for blindness

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