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If variety is indeed the spice of life, then Michael Kamen is enjoying one of the tastiest careers of any of today's leading musicians. Born in New York City on April 15, 1948, he showed musical talent from infancy, and played and sang everything from bluegrass to Bach while attending New York's High School of Music and Art. While studying oboe at Juilliard, he formed a rock-classical fusion band called New York Rock and Roll Ensemble, which appeared on the first of Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic; it was Bernstein himself who introduced Kamen to symphonic arranging and composing.
Kamen's early creative work centered on ballets (he has written ten so far, for the Harkness Ballet, Louis Falco, Alvin Ailey, Joffrey Ballet and Milan's La Scala), but he expanded into Hollywood with his score for The Next Man in 1976 and into pop and rock arranging three years later when he collaborated with Pink Floyd on their album The Wall.
He has since established himself among the leading film composers, with scores for over seventy movies and television shows--including the Lethal Weapon and Die Hard series, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, 101 Dalmations, Mr Holland's Opus, The Winter Guest, X-Men, Frequency, Edge of Darkness, Brazil and the Iron Giant, as well as music for the closing ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics that have garnered two Oscar nominations, two Golden Globes Awards, fourGrammyss and an Emmy. With Richard Dreyfuss, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role as the inspiring music teacher, Mr. Holland, Kamen has... Read more at MichaelKamen.com
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Michael Kamen
Filmography
- The Next Man (1976)
- Between the Lines (1977)
- S*H*E (1980)
- Polyester (1981)
- Pink Floyd - The Wall (1982)
- The Dead Zone (1983)
- Brazil (1985)
- Lifeforce (1985)
- Highlander (1986)
- Mona Lisa (1986)
- Lethal Weapon (1987)
- Suspect (1987)
- The Adventures of Baron Muchausen
- Lethal Weapon II (1989)
- License to Kill (1989)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Company Business (1991)
- Hudson Hawk (1991)
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
- Lethal Weapon III (1992)
- The Last Action Hero (1993)
- The Three Musketeers
- Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)
- Don Juan De Marco (1995)
- 101 Dalmations (1996)
- Jack (1996)
- Even Horizon (1997)
- Inventing the Abbotts (1997)
- "From the Earth to the Moon" (1997)
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1997)
- What Dreams May Come (1998)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- X-Men (2000)
- Band of Brothers (2001)
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