Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick ( born April 19, 1938 in New York City, New York) is an award winning American composer, conductor and arranger in film and theater. He created some musical works for the cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. Including compositions for movies such as The Bronx, Endless Love and Find Me Guilty - The Mafia process.

Life and career

Jonathan Tunick, born in 1938 in New York City, first visited the Bard College in New York, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts. Two years later he joined the Juilliard School of Music in 1960 with a Master 's degree. He studied composition under Paul Nordoff, Vittorio Giannini and Leonard Bernstein. During his student years he began to write songs and musicals for revues. In 1960 he orchestrated the revue From A to Z on Broadway. He was hired as an orchestrator for the musical Promises, Promises by Burt Bacharach and Hal David in 1968, where he took advantage of the possibilities of electronic music and rock beats to use. As an arranger Tunick has worked with numerous artists in the entertainment industry together, but especially with the composer Stephen Sondheim, whose musicals he orchestrated since 1970.

Since 1978, Jonathan Tunick also composed the music for the film itself and television scores. Tunick wrote the music for such films as Daniel Petrie's crime drama The Bronx with Paul Newman, for Franco Zeffirelli romantic love drama Endless Love, for the Fanatsy drama I Am the Cheese, for Bob Balaban's drama The Last Good Time or for Sidney Lumet's crime comedy Find Me Guilty - The Mafia process with Vin Diesel. In addition, he orchestrated in his career the music for over thirty other film productions, documentaries, TV films or television series and worked as an arranger since 1957 the music for nearly 60 musicals and stage shows, of Take Five through to the revival of Promises, Promises in 2010.

Tunick is one of the few people in the U.S. music business who managed the same to win all four major awards, the Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, a Tony Award and an Oscar, the latter he won in 1978 for the orchestration of Stephen Sondheim's film music The smile a summer night.

Jonathan Tunick is married to actress Leigh Beery.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

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