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Composer JOHN POWELL: From Star Wars to How to Train Your Dragon - Highlights

Composer JOHN POWELL: From Star Wars to How to Train Your Dragon - Highlights

Season 5 Published 5 years ago
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Composer John Powell is a multiple Annie Award winner for “Best Music in an Animated Feature Production” and “Best Original Score”. Since rising to prominence with his scores to the Matt Damon Bourne trilogy, he has become known for family animated films, scoring Shrek, Chicken Run, Ice Age (2 & 3), Bolt, Rio, Happy Feet (1 & 2) and Kung Fu Panda (1 & 2) and action music for Hancock, Green Zone, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Italian Job, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Solo: A Star Wars Story, among others.

Nominated for multiple Grammys, BAFTAs and other awards, his score for How to Train Your Dragon earned him his first Academy Award nomination. His concert music includes  "A Prussian Requiem", an oratorio to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of World War I which  premiered at The Royal Festival Hall.

· https://johnpowellmusic.com
· www.creativeprocess.info

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