Jonathan Elias
Jonathan Elias ( born 1956 in New York City ) is an American film composer.
Life
Elias, who from the age of six had piano lessons, studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and the Bennington College in Vermont. In 1979 he made his debut as a film composer with the music to Ridley Scott's Alien. Since 1986, he also composed music for popular music groups such as John Taylor of Duran Duran (1988 album Big Thing ), BB King, Alanis Morissette, James Taylor and Yes.
In 1990 inspired by photos Edward S. Curtis ' his first album Requiem for the Americas: Songs from the Lost World, in which among others Toni Childs, Michael Bolton, Patti Scialfa and Jon Anderson participated.
1992 Elias went to California, where, inter alia, the music for Chaplin and The Singing Detective emerged. 1999 his nine-part choral symphony The Prayer Cycle premiered. On the performance of Alanis Morissette, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Ofra Haza participated from Israel, the Pakistani Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Salif Keita from Mali and the Tibetan Yungchen Lhamo. As a continuation of the work Prayers originated in Silence, which was premiered by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and the soloists Sting, Salif Keita, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan and Jonathan Davis.
Discography
- The Prayer Cycle ( March 23, 1999 Sony Classical)
- American River (album ) | American River ( August 24, 2004 Decca Records)
- The Prayer Cycle II (2008, Universal Classics Group) - upcoming
- Big Thing (1987 ), Duran Duran
- Gutterboy (1990) Gutterboy
- Bulletproof Heart (1990 ), Grace Jones
- Union ( 1991), Yes
- The Futurist (2004 ), Robert Downey, Jr.