Dave Porter

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Dave Porter (also: David Porter ) is an American composer of film music .

Life

Dave Porter grew up on the east coast of the United States. He started taking piano lessons at the age of five and came into contact with classical music a lot. He later studied classical and electronic composition at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers north of New York . After graduation, he went to the metropolis and worked as a technical assistant in the studio of the composer Philip Glass, as well as for other commercial music producers. Eventually he and a few others founded their own production studio in Times Square and created music for commercials and documentaries. When the 2001 terrorist attacks began to decline, he decided to go to Hollywood .

It took him a few years to gain a foothold in Los Angeles. His involvement in the soundtrack for Motel and the documentary Bigger Stronger Faster rose to prominence in the mid-2000s and his breakthrough came with the successful Breaking Bad series , which ran from 2008 to 2013. Towards the end of the series, two soundtrack albums were also released and in 2013 he received the award for best television composer of the year from the ASCAP music authors' association .

He then wrote the music for the Better Call Saul series , an offshoot of Breaking Bad . From 2013 he was responsible for the soundtrack of another successful series, The Blacklist and in 2017 for the offshoot series The Blacklist: Redemption . He mainly composes for series, but also for films such as the comedies Term Life - Murderous Race and the Oscar-winning The Disaster Artist .

Porter has a son and a daughter.

Filmography (selection)

Discography

title Album details
Breaking Bad: Original Score from the Television Series
  • Published: August 28, 2012
  • Label: Madison Gate Records
  • Format: CD, vinyl, download
Breaking Bad: Original Score from the Television Series Volume 2
  • Published: September 22, 2013
  • Label: Madison Gate Records
  • Format: CD, vinyl, download
Flesh and Bone: Music from the Starz Original Series
  • Published: January 15, 2016
  • Label: Varèse Sarabande
  • Format: CD, vinyl
Better Call Saul (Original Score from the Television Series 1 & 2
  • Published: June 9, 2017
  • Label: Music on Vinyl
  • Format: vinyl, CD

Awards

  • ASCAP Composer's Choice Award for Best Television Composer of the Year (2013 for Breaking Bad )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Q&A With Breaking Bad's Composer Extraordinaire, Dave Porter , Xaque Gruber, Huffpost, June 11, 2013
  2. ↑ We Talked to Dave Porter, Breaking Bad's Composer , noisey, October 14, 2013
  3. ^ Dave Porter Discography . MTV . Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  4. ^ Dave Porter Discography . The Atlantic . Retrieved September 27, 2013.
  5. ↑ Dave Porter (5) - Flesh And Bone: Music From The Starz Original Series . Discogs. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  6. ↑ Dave Porter (5) - Better Call Saul (Original Score From The Television Series 1 & 2) . Discogs. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Porter, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Porter, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film music composer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century