Featured Artists
John Towner Williams
(born February 8, 1932)
is an American composer, conductor, and
pianist. With a career spanning over six
decades, he has composed some of the most
popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed
film scores in cinematic history, including those of the Star Wars series, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the Indiana Jones series and many others.
I don’t make a particular distinction between high art and low art. Music is there for everybody. It’s a river we can all put our cups into and drink it and be sustained by it. –John Williams
Thomas Montgomery Newman
(born October 20, 1955)
is an American composer best known for his
many film scores. Newman has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards and three Golden Globes, and has won two BAFTAs, six Grammys and an Emmy Award. Newman was honored with the Richard Kirk award at the 2000 BMI Film and TV Awards. The awards given annually to a composer who has made significant success in film and television music.
The experience of a film is immersive, and music is supposed to underline and help that experience –Thomas Newman
Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou
(born 29 March 1943)
known professionally as Vangelis, is a Greek
musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire, also composing scores for the films Blade Runner Missing, Antarctica, The Bounty, 492:Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. Vangelis is one of the most valued figures in electronic music.
My main language is music, and my teacher is nature. –Vangelis