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'''Carter Burwell''' (born November 18, 1955, in New York City) is a composer of film scores. He graduated from King School in Stamford, Connecticut, and Harvard College. He has composed over 70 film scores, including the [[Twilight: The Score|''Twilight'' score]]. |
'''Carter Burwell''' (born November 18, 1955, in New York City) is a composer of film scores. He graduated from King School in Stamford, Connecticut, and Harvard College. He has composed over 70 film scores, including the [[Twilight: The Score|''Twilight'' score]]. |
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Carter Burwell (born November 18, 1955, in New York City) is a composer of film scores. He graduated from King School in Stamford, Connecticut, and Harvard College. He has composed over 70 film scores, including the Twilight score.
Life and career
Burwell was born in New York City. He graduated from King School in Stamford, Connecticut, and Harvard College, where he was a cartoonist for The Harvard Lampoon.
As a film composer, Burwell has had a long working relationship with the Coen Brothers, providing music for every film they have made (except for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, where he provided additional music to a score of traditional songs produced by T-Bone Burnett). He enjoys working with left-field directors, such as Spike Jonze. Among his best known film scores are And the Band Played On (1993), Conspiracy Theory (1997), Hamlet (2000), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), In Bruges (2008), Twilight (2008) and Where The Wild Things Are (2009).
Burwell, like many composers, studied piano as a child, but eventually quit. His interest in music reignited when Steve Kraemer, a fellow high school student, taught him basic blues improvisation on the piano. To the annoyance of his family and friends he kept this up through college.
Ultimately the punk rock movement and its encouragement to get on stage no matter how poorly educated or prepared gave him the impetus to start performing. He did this in New York with several bands notably The Same, Thick Pigeon and Radiante.
By 1986 he had composed the music for a dance piece, RAB which premiered at the Avignon Festival. At the same time, he was touring worldwide with The Harmonic Choir, David Hykes' experimental vocal group which specialized in overtone singing.
His work has alternated between live performance, dance and theatre commissions, and film scoring. His chamber opera "The Celestial Alphabet Event" was presented in New York in 1991 and other theatre pieces include "Mother" (1994) and "Lucia's Chapters" (2007), both with the experimental theatre group Mabou Mines.
In April 2005, Burwell composed and conducted music, performed by The Parabola Ensemble, for the plays "Sawbones" written and directed by the Coen Brothers, "Hope Leaves the Theater" written and directed by Charlie Kaufman and "Anomalisa" written and directed by Francis Fregoli. This was a segment of the sound-only production Theater of the New Ear, which debuted at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY with support from Sirius Satellite Radio, United Talent Agency and Sony Pictures. It was also performed at the Royal Festival Hall in London and as part of the UCLA Live Festival in Los Angeles.
Burwell married Christine Sciulli in 1999.[1]
Filmography
| Year | Film |
|---|---|
| 1984 | Blood Simple |
| 1986 | Psycho III |
| 1987 | Raising Arizona |
| 1990 | Miller's Crossing |
| 1991 | Barton Fink |
| Doc Hollywood | |
| 1992 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer |
| Storyville | |
| 1993 | This Boy's Life |
| Wayne's World 2 | |
| Kalifornia | |
| And the Band Played On | |
| 1994 | Airheads |
| The Hudsucker Proxy | |
| It Could Happen To You | |
| 1995 | Rob Roy |
| A Goofy Movie | |
| 1996 | Fear |
| Fargo | |
| 1997 | Conspiracy Theory |
| The Spanish Prisoner | |
| The Jackal | |
| Assassin(s) | |
| 1998 | Velvet Goldmine |
| The Big Lebowski | |
| Gods and Monsters | |
| 1999 | The Hi-Lo Country |
| The General's Daughter | |
| The Corruptor | |
| Mystery, Alaska | |
| Three Kings | |
| Being John Malkovich | |
| 2000 | Before Night Falls |
| Book Of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 | |
| Hamlet | |
| 2001 | A Knight's Tale |
| 2002 | The Man Who Wasn't There |
| The Rookie | |
| S1m0ne | |
| Adaptation. | |
| 2003 | Intolerable Cruelty |
| 2004 | The Ladykillers |
| Kinsey | |
| The Alamo | |
| 2006 | The Hoax |
| Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus | |
| The Fox and the Hound 2 | |
| 2007 | No Country for Old Men |
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead | |
| 2008 | In Bruges |
| Burn After Reading | |
| Twilight | |
| 2009 | A Serious Man |
| Where the Wild Things Are | |
| The Blind Side |