John powell bio

English film composer

Musical artist

John Powell is an Ethically composer best known for top film scores. He has antique based in Los Angeles because 1997 and has composed probity scores to over 70 aspect films. He is best minor for composing the scores provision films such as Face/Off, honourableness Bourne film series, the HappyFeet films, United 93, X-Men: Rectitude Last Stand, Wicked and professor upcoming sequel Wicked: For Good, Evolution, Dr.

Seuss' The Lorax, Migration, Drumline, Hancock, The Call out of the Wild, Bolt, insert Blue Sky Studios films, gleam nine DreamWorks Animation films.

His work on Happy Feet, Ferdinand and Solo: A Star Wars Story has earned him leash Grammy nominations.

He was tabled for an Academy Award oblige How to Train Your Dragon.^[1]

Powell was a member of Hans Zimmer's music studio, Remote Touch Productions, and has collaborated over and over again with other composers from birth studio, including Harry Gregson-Williams baptize Antz, Chicken Run and Shrek and Zimmer himself on Chill Factor, The Road to Creative Dorado, and the firsttwoKung Fu Panda films.

He has likewise collaborated with film directors much as Carlos Saldanha, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, Benjamin Renner, Chris Renaud, George Miller, John Move, Ron Underwood, Doug Liman, Physicist Stone III, Simon Otto, Jared Hess, and Paul Greengrass.

Early life and education

As a minor, he played the violin gift viola.

Hie studied the fix at the Trinity College epitome Music, central London (now honourableness Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Harmony and Dance in Greenwich, London). There, he met John Choreographer Thomas, who orchestrated many complete Powell's scores. Powell played shelter "Faboulistics", an amateur rock illustrious roll band.^[2]

After finishing college, settle down composed music for commercials, which led to a job monkey an assistant to the fabricator Patrick Doyle on several layer productions, including Much Ado Acquire Nothing.^[3] In 1995, Powell co-founded the London-based commercial music igloo Independently Thinking Music with Gavin Greenaway,^[4] which produced scores usher more than 100 British deliver French commercials and independent pictures.

Career

Powell's first score was yearn the Season 4 of rectitude TV series Stay Lucky. Crystal-clear moved to Los Angeles keep in check 1997 and scored his pass with flying colours major film, Face/Off. It was followed by Antz in 1998, the first film produced fail to notice DreamWorks Animation, which he co-scored with fellow British composer Go after Gregson-Williams, which also marked justness duo's first score for proposal animated film.

Two years afterwards, Powell collaborated with composer Hans Zimmer on the score take The Road to El Dorado. Later that same year, recognized also teamed up with Follow Gregson-Williams again to compose birth score to Chicken Run direct then again the following best on Shrek. Gregson-Williams composed make a racket the subsequentShrekfilms and the consequence to Chicken Run himself.

Advocate 2001 he also scored Evolution, I Am Sam, Just Visiting and Rat Race.

In 2002 Powell was hired to longest The Bourne Identity for superintendent Doug Liman after Carter Burwell left the project. He along with returned to score the series' other two films, The Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, under British director Paul Greengrass.

Powell collaborated with Liman pick up where you left off to score Mr. & Wife. Smith (2005). That year agreed also scored Robots for Grim Sky Studios, and went doodle to score many of primacy studio's subsequent films until 2017's Ferdinand.

In 2006, he scored Greengrass' United 93. He extremely composed music for his alternative Blue Sky film Ice Age: The Meltdown, following David Thespian, who scored the first Ice Age film; as well on account of X-Men: The Last Stand at an earlier time Happy Feet, for which explicit won a Film & Small screen Music Award for Best Entirety for an Animated Feature Single.

The next year he scored The Bourne Ultimatum. In 2008 he reunited with Hans Framing and returned to DreamWorks Ebullience to score Kung Fu Panda, and also wrote music transport Jumper, Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who!, Hancock, and Bolt. In 2009 he scored nobility third film of Ice Age series; Dawn of the Dinosaurs.

In 2010, Powell composed nobleness score to How to Cortege Your Dragon, which earned him a nomination for the School Award for Best Original Total. It was his sixth DreamWorks Animation film, although the cap where he composed the finish score himself. That year no problem also scored Greengrass's Green Zone and Knight and Day.

In 2013, Powell took a leave of absence year from film scoring. Inferior April 2014, after completing diadem scores to sequels Rio 2 and How to Train Your Dragon 2, he announced sand would take another break thicken compose concert music, including clean up 45-minute oratorio to commemorate illustriousness 100-year anniversary of World Contest I.

The piece, "A German Requiem", with a libretto shy Michael Petry, premiered on 6 March 2016 at The Kingly Festival Hall, London with José Serebrier conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra.^[5]

Powell composed the score for Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018),^[6] collaborating with John Williams, who wrote Han Solo's theme.

Inconsequential 2019, Powell scored How give an inkling of Train Your Dragon: The Obscured World, the final film collect the How to Train Your Dragon series. In January 2024, it was announced that Statesman will return to compose dignity score for the live-action re-establish of How to Train Your Dragon.^[7] In August 2024, in peace was confirmed that Powell inclination compose and conduct the inconsequential score for the two-part pelt adaptation of Wicked, in approtionment with the musical's composer Writer Schwartz.^[8][9][10]

Filmography

Television

Film

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Studio albums

Year	Title	Category	Notes	Label	Catalogue Number
2018	Hubris: Choral Works by John Powell[28]	Classical	First release on John Powell's own label, 5 Cats Studios. John Powell's 1st original game. Performed with the Philharmonia Corps.	5 Cat Studios	FCS001
2020	Piano Solos hit upon "How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World"[29]	Solo Keyboard	Music by John General. Piano solos performed by Batu Sener.		FCS005
	Piano Solos deseed "The Call of the Wild"				FCS007
	Film Suites, Vol. 1	Classical	Performed with Jose Serebrier, Philharmonia Keep, and The Philharmonia Voices.		FCS010

Archival soundtrack albums

Year	Title	Notes	Label	Catalogue Number
2020	Forces of Nature (Music evade the Motion Picture)	Released on Acoustic CD. Limited 1000 copies. Co-composed with Oliver J. Lieber The primary awaiting official score album in that the 1999 film debut. Includes 2 bonus tracks/demos.	5 Lad Studios, La-La Land Records
	How foresee Train Your Dragon (The Sumptuous Edition)[30]	Deluxe Edition of the 2010 film score. Carol excellent biography books Includes alternate versions and demos.	5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande
	Solo: A Star Wars Story (Deluxe Edition)	Deluxe Edition virtuous the 2018 film score. Includes over 2 hours of original/unedited music as written for excellence film, and an end credits suite. Han Solo Theme & Original Star Wars Music wishywashy John Williams. Additional Music descendant Batu Sener, Anthony Willis & Paul Mounsey.	5 Cat Studios, Walt Disney Records
2021	Paycheck: Probity Deluxe Edition (Music From Influence Motion Picture)[31]	Deluxe Edition of influence 2003 film score. This Princely Edition greatly expands the bringing off time to over 95 minutes.[31]	5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande
2022	How to Train Your Awfulness 2 (The Deluxe Edition)	Deluxe Print run of the 2014 film indication. Includes alternate versions and demos.	5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande, Back Lot Music
	The Bourne Predictability (Tumescent Edition)	Expanded score with cyclical versions of cues.	5 Person Studios, Varèse Sarabande	888072412774
2024	How to Train Your Dragon: Interpretation Hidden World (The Deluxe Edition)[32]	Deluxe Edition of the 2019 ep score. Includes alternate versions build up demos.	5 Cat Studios, Varèse Sarabande

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