Christopher Young
Christopher Young (* 28. April 1957 in Red Bank , New Jersey ) is an American composer of film music .
Life
He received a bachelor's degree in music from Massachusetts Hampshire College and continued his studies at North Texas State University before moving to Los Angeles in 1980 . There, he worked as a jazz - drummer , but soon oriented new and studied at the UCLA Film School with film music composer David Raksin .
Christopher Young has been working as an independent composer for film music since 1982 and has composed film scores for over 110 films to date . Young, who was a big fan of science fiction and horror films as a teenager, found the soundtrack through a record entitled The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann , which he found in a record store where Young was a regular in his hometown of Red Bench bumped. The composer Bernard Herrmann wrote the soundtrack for important films such as Psycho by director Alfred Hitchcock and The Journey to the Center of the Earth .
He won a Saturn Award in 1990 for his work on Hellbound - Hellraiser II . For the films Tempting Trap , Password: Swordfish and Der Fluch - The Grudge , he each won a BMI Film & TV Award .
Filmography (selection)
- 1981: The Dorm That Dripped Blood
- 1982: The pack freaks out at Highpoint (Highpoint)
- 1985: Nightmare II - Die Rache (A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 2: Freddy's Revenge)
- 1985: Barbarian Queen
- 1986: Ragman (Trick or Treat)
- 1986: Invasion from Mars (Invaders from Mars)
- 1987: Hellraiser - The Gate to Hell (Hellraiser)
- 1987: Flowers in the Attic (Flowers in the Attic)
- 1988: Hellbound - Hellraiser II (Hellbound: Hellraiser II)
- 1988: BAT-21 - In the middle of the fire (Bat * 21)
- 1989: Die Fliege 2 (The Fly II)
- 1989: Barbarian Queen II (Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back)
- 1989: Hider in the House (Hider in the House)
- 1992: Rapid Fire - Unarmed and extremely dangerous (Rapid Fire)
- 1992: Jennifer 8 (Jennifer Eight)
- 1993: Stephen Kings Stark (The Dark Half)
- 1994: Nightmare Lover (Dream Lover)
- 1995: Murder in the First
- 1995: Species
- 1995: Copykill (Copycat)
- 1995: Virtuosity
- 1996: Marilyn - Your Life (Norma Jean & Marilyn)
- 1997: Murder in the White House (Murder at 1600)
- 1997: Agent Null Null Nix (The Man Who Knew Too Little)
- 1998: Judas Kiss
- 1998: Dark Legends (Urban Legend)
- 1998: Icy Silence (Hush)
- 1998: Rounders
- 1999: Entrapment (Entrapment)
- 1999: The Big Kahuna (The Big Kahuna)
- 2000: The WonderBoys (Wonder Boys)
- 2000: The Gift - The Phantom gift (The Gift)
- 2001: Password: Swordfish (Swordfish)
- 2001: The Glass House
- 2001: Ship News (The Shipping News)
- 2001: bandits! (Bandits)
- 2003: The Core - The inner core (The Core)
- 2003: Shade
- 2003: The verdict - everyone is for sale (Runaway Jury)
- 2003: Shortcut to Happiness - The Devil is in the Detail (The Devil and Daniel Webster)
- 2004: A work of God (Something the Lord Made)
- 2004: The Grudge (The Grudge)
- 2004: Spider-Man 2 (collaboration)
- 2005: Beauty Shop
- 2005: The Exorcism of Emily Rose (The Exorcism of Emily Rose)
- 2006: The Curse - The Grudge 2 (The Grudge 2)
- 2007: Ghost Rider
- 2007: Spider-Man 3
- 2007: Glück im Spiel (Lucky You)
- 2008: Sleepwalking
- 2008: Untraceable
- 2008: Scarecrow
- 2009: Drag Me to Hell
- 2009: Creation
- 2009: The Curse of the 2 Sisters (The Uninvited)
- 2010: When in Rome - Five men are four too many (When in Rome)
- 2011: Priest
- 2011: The Rum Diary
- 2012: Sinister
- 2013: Killing Season
- 2013: A Madea Christmas
- 2014: The Monkey King
- 2014: The Single Moms Club
- 2014: Deliver Us from Evil (Deliver Us from Evil)
- 2016: The Monkey King 2
- 2019: Cemetery of the cuddly toys
literature
- Christopher Young - "Suspense Journey to Hollywood". Interview with Dominik Rolewicz. In: Cinema Musica. Issue 4 / May 2006, pp. 11–15.
Web links
- Christopher Young in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Christopher Young website (officialchristopheryoung.com)
- Christopher Young's website (chrisyoung-filmmusic.info)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Video interview with composer Christopher Young in the documentary Der Höllenkomponist - Hellcomposer , directors: Michael Felsher and David Gregory, 19 minutes, 2007, produced by Anchor Bay Entertainment + Red Shirt Pictures + Starz Home Entertainment, included in the bonus material of the five-disc bluRay box Clive Barker's Hellraiser Trilogy , (Disc 1), 2018, Turbine Medien GmbH, Münster + Lakeshore International, Beverly Hills (USA)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Young, Christopher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Red Bank , New Jersey , USA |