Oriole
Oriole at Derby Jazz Week 2007 Jonny Phillips
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Glenn Branca
Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is an avant-garde composer and guitarist. Branca studied theater at Emerson College in Boston in the early 1970s. While there, he began experimenting with sound as the founder of an experimental theater group called Bastard Theater. He moved to New York in 1976. His first encounter with the NYC music scene was with the N.DoDo Band whom he observed many times at their rehearsal space- Phil Demise's Gegenschein Vaudeville Placenter. This is where he first met jeffrey lohn who was playing electric violin with the N.
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Tristram Cary
Cary was educated at Westminster School in London, England and is the son of a pianist and the novelist, Joyce Cary, author of Mister Johnson. While working as a radar engineer for the British Navy during World War II, he independently developed his own conception of electronic and tape music, and is regarded as amongst the earliest pioneers of these musical forms. Following the war he created one of the first electronic music studios, later travelling around Europe to meet the small numbers of other early pioneers of electronic music and composition.
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Riverrun
riverrun is a side project by Daniel Land of the Manchester, UK shoegaze band Daniel Land & The Modern Painters. Taking its name from the first line of James Joyce
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Jamie Campbell Bower
Jamie Campbell Bower (born 22 November 1988) is a British actor and singer. His first screen role was Anthony Hope in Tim Burton's 'Sweeney Todd.' Bower attended Bedales School, a boarding school in England. He is a former member of the National Youth Music Theatre. He is also the lead singer for The Darling Buds.
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Sleepers
There are at least 6 bands / projects named Sleepers: 1. Sleepers is the recording and performance project of Silas Ciarán and Amanda Boutourline. It began as a solo outlet for Ciarán in early 2004, and was at this time geared towards Black and Doom Metal with flecks of ambient. It is now a full fledged crossover project, incorporating many different sources into one heap of sound. 2. Sleepers was a progressive new wave rock band from Gold Coast, Australia. They have changed their name to Awaken I Am.
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Alex North
Alex North (December 4, 1910 - September 8, 1991) was an American composer responsible for the first jazz-based film score (A Streetcar Named Desire). North was nominated for 15 Oscars, but did not win until receiving the lifetime achievement Academy Award in 1986. Among his many film scores are Spartacus, Cleopatra, Streetcar Named Desire, Death of A Salesman, Dragonslayer, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Viva Zapata.
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Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino (pronounced juh-kee-no) (born 1967, Riverside, New Jersey) is an American soundtrack composer who has composed several multi-award winning scores for many popular movies, television series and video games. He attended the Evening Division at the Juilliard School, as well as the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he acquired a degree in film production and a minor degree in History.
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Fabio Frizzi
Fabio Frizzi (born July 2, 1951) is an Italian composer, best known for his film scores he produced for the legendary Italian horror director Lucio Fulci. His soundtrack work, featured in films such as Zombi 2 (also known as Zombie Flesh Eaters), City of the Living Dead and The Beyond, is minimalistic and highly atmospheric, featuring heavy use of synthesizers and slow, repetitive rhythms.
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Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman (Hebrew: נטלי פורטמן; born June 9, 1981) is an Academy Award winning Israeli-American actress. Portman began her career in the early 1990s, turning down the opportunity to become a child model in favor of acting. Her first role came in the 1994 independent film Leon: The Professional, however her breakout role did not come until she was cast as Padmé Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.[1]
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