Jonathan Tunick

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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 cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. Including compositions for films such as The Bronx , Endlose Liebe and Find Me Guilty - The Mafia Trial .

life and career

Jonathan Tunick, born in New York City in 1938, first attended Bard College in New York , where he received his Bachelor of Arts. Two years later he graduated from 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 days he began to write songs and musicals for revues. In 1960 he orchestrated the revue From A to Z on Broadway . In 1968 he was hired as an orchestrator for the musical Promises, Promises by Burt Bacharach and Hal David , where he used the opportunity to use electronic music and rock beats. Tunick has worked as an arranger with numerous artists in the entertainment industry, but above all with the composer Stephen Sondheim , whose musicals he has orchestrated since 1970.

Since 1978, Jonathan Tunick has also composed the music for several film and television scores himself. Tunick wrote the music for films such as Daniel Petrie's crime drama The Bronx with Paul Newman , for Franco Zeffirelli's romantic love drama Endlose Liebe , for the fantasy 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 trial with Vin Diesel . In addition, during his career he orchestrated the music for over thirty other cinema productions, documentaries, television films or television series and, as arranger, has been responsible for the music for almost 60 musicals and stage shows, from Take Five to the revival of Promises, Promises in 2010.

Tunick is one of the few people in US show business to have won all four of the major US entertainment industry awards, the Grammy Award , the Emmy Award , the Tony Award and the Oscar . He won the latter in 1978 for the orchestration of Stephen Sondheim's film music The Smile of a Summer Night .

Jonathan Tunick is married to actress Leigh Beery.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

  • 1978: Columbo (TV series, episode 7x02)
  • 1978: The dearest stewardesses ( Flying High , TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 1979: Rendezvous Hotel (TV movie)
  • 1979: America 2100 (TV movie)
  • 1979: 3 by Cheever (miniseries, 2 episodes)
  • 1980: Swan Song (TV movie)
  • 1980: Blinded by the Light (TV movie)
  • 1980: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall (TV movie)
  • 1981: Comedy of Horrors (TV movie)
  • 1982, 1984: American Playhouse (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1985: The Enemy Twins ( Brotherly Love , Movie made for TV)
  • 1985: Incredible Stories ( Amazing Stories , TV Series, Episode 1x07)
  • 1986–1987: Disneyland (TV series, 2 episodes)
  • 1992: Murder is Her Hobby (TV series, 4 episodes)

literature

  • Jonathan Tunick. In: Film Composers Directory. , Lone Eagle Publishing, 2000, p. 257

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jonathan Tunick. In: Thomas S. Hischak: Stage it with music: an encyclopedic guide to the American musical theater. , Greenwood Press, 1993, p. 192
personal data
SURNAME Tunick, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer, arranger and orchestra player
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States