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List Of Female Film Score Composers
The following is a list of female film score composers. * Anita Andreis, Croatian * Rachita Arora, Indian * Malini Awasthi, Indian * Lesley Barber (born 1962), Canadian * Elsa Barraine (1910–1999), French * Bebe Barron (born 1926), American * P. Bhanumathi (1925-2005), Indian * Bhavatharini, Indian * Björk (born 1965), Icelandic * Kathryn Bostic, American * Joanna Bruzdowicz (born 1943), Polish * Wendy Carlos (born 1939), American * Doreen Carwithen (1922–2003), British * Suzanne Ciani (born 1946), American * Dolores Claman (1927–2021), Canadian * Siobhán Cleary (born 1970), Irish * Lisa Coleman (born 1960), American * Miriam Cutler, American * Evelyne Datl, Canadian * Alokananda Dasgupta, Indian * Anne-Kathrin Dern (born 1987), German * Payal Dev, Indian * Saraswati Devi, Indian * Sussan Deyhim (born 1958), Iranian * Michelle DiBucci (born 1961), American * Violeta Dinescu (born 1953), Romanian * Elizabeth Drake, Australian * Anne Dudley (born 1956), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Andreis
Anita Andreis (Zganec) is a Croatian composer, singer-songwriter, musician and producer in the field of film music. Andreis has worked on a variety of films, theatre and ballet productions, both independent and commercial. She has won three Best Film Music Awards for her musical scores to the animation films ''Guliver'' and ''Bobo''. Early life Andreis was born in Zagreb, Croatia, where she grew up and completed her early education. As a young child, she started learning to play the guitar and a piano. A film fan, Andreis set her sights on becoming a film composer and began composing at a young age. She started by studying classical music forms and works of composers of classical music by attending private classes. Her formal education continued at Berklee College of Music, where she first specialised in "Production of Music for Film and Games". After being awarded a celebrity Scholarship of Michel Camilo she completed her Master studies of "Orchestration for Film and TV." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyne Datl
Evelyne Datl is a Canadians, Canadian musician, record producer, and composer of music for film and television. Datl has played piano/Keyboard instrument, keyboards in live performance and on recordings of many award-winning Canadian artists, notably Shirley Eikhard, Alannah Myles, Lorraine Segato and The Parachute Club. Her film and television work can be heard on the TV shows ''Adventures of Dudley the Dragon'', ''The Big Comfy Couch'' and ''What's for Dinner?'', as well as in several feature films (''Show Me (film), Show Me''), dramatic series (''Crimes of Passion (TV series), Crimes of Passion'') and documentaries. She has produced several artists as well as her own self-titled CD. She also appeared on the TV series ''Eric's World'' as a musician in the band from 1991 to 1995. References External linksOfficial site * Canadian women pianists Canadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germaine Franco
Germaine Franco is an American film composer, conductor, songwriter, arranger, record producer, and percussionist. Franco is the first woman to score a Disney animated feature film with ''Encanto'' (2021), for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe, an SCL Award, an Annie Award, and an Academy Award for Best Original Score. She is also the first Latina to be nominated for the latter award, as well as the first to join the music branch of the Academy. In 2018, Univision named Franco one of the Top 15 Latinas who are changing the world. Other film and television scores Franco has contributed to include '' Coco'' (2017), '' Tag'' (2018), '' Dope'' (2015), ''Vida'' (2018), ''Dora and the Lost City of Gold'' (2019), and ''Little'' (2019). Her work has been performed at concert halls such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall with The Los Angeles Master Chorale, The Puerto Rico Symphony, The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The National Symphony Orchestra, and The Chicago Philharmonic, among ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Fox
Felicity Wilcox (working as a film composer under the alias Felicity Fox) is an Australian composer and musician. Accolades Australian Film Institute Awards :Nominated. 1992 AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score for '' Redheads'' :Nominated. 2008 AACTA Award for Best Sound in a Documentary for ''The Oasis'' :Nominated. 2009 AACTA Award for Best Sound in a Documentary for ''The Choir'' ::With Phil Judd, Sam Hayward, David White ARIA Award :Nominated. 1999 ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album for ''Afrika - Cape Town to Cairo'' APRA Awards :Nominated. 1999 APRA/ AGSC Award for Best Soundtrack Album for ''Afrika - Cape Town to Cairo'' :Nominated. 2003 APRA/AGSC Award for Best Documentary Soundtrack Album for ''A Cave In The Snow'' :Winner. 1997 AGSC Award Best Original Song in a Feature Film for "Fistful of Flies". FIFREC FILM AWARD, FRANCE :Winner. 1993 BEST ORIGINAL MUSIC for 'LOYAL TO MY IMAGE' Discography Solo *''Moment'' (2018) - Psychopyjama *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samantha Fonti
Samantha Fonti (born 12 February 1973) is an Australian film composer and classically trained violinist. Fonti was raised and born in Sydney, Australia. She started her classical music training at the age of 3 and completed her Bachelor of Music degree as a violin major at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music in 2000. She also attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) graduate screen composition course in Sydney. She is best known for her emotive orchestral film scoring and, as a former session musician and multi-instrumentalist, performs on most of her scores. She was nominated for Best Original Score for the short film ''Moving Day'' at the St Kilda International Film Festival 2011 and was a finalist for APRA's Professional Development Awards in 2009. Her feature films credits include composing the score for ''Brush'', ''The 7th Hunt'', which screened at the New York City Horror Film Festival in 2008, and '' You Can't Stop the Murders'' as additional s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Farber
Sharon Farber is an Israeli composer. She was born in Bat Yam, Israel. Early career Farber began her musical career at the age of seven, as a classical pianist. After graduating from Thelma-Yelin High School for the Arts, she served in the Israel Defense Forces, and later worked as a theater composer and musical director in Israel. She won the first prize in Colors in Dance in 1992 for her music for choreography. In 1994, she moved to Boston, USA, upon receiving a scholarship from Berklee College of Music. During her studies, she won the first prize in the yearly Professional Writing Division Concert with her first string quartet. After graduating ''summa cum laude'' in 1997 (majoring in both classical composition and film scoring) she moved to Los Angeles to begin her professional career. Miss Farber was the recipient of the prestigious Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Internship in Film Scoring, as well as the mentorship program of the Society of Composers and Lyricists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Dudley
Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genres, as a film composer, and was one of the core members of the Synth-pop band Art of Noise. In 1998, Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for ''The Full Monty''. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of ''Les Misérables'', also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music. Career Dudley was born in Beckenham, Kent. She graduated with a master's in music from King's College London in 1978. Trained as a classical performer, she moved into the competitive commercial field as a session musician, where her professional relationship with Trevor Horn began. In 1982, Dudley made significant contributions to the Horn-produced ''The Lexicon of Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake is an Australian composer. Her film soundtrack credits include ''Road to Nhill'' and ''Japanese Story'' Discography Albums Awards and nominations AACTA Awards *Nominated. 1997 AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score for ''Road to Nhill'' *Winner. 2003 AACTA Award for Best Original Music Score for ''Japanese Story'' ARIA Award *Nominated. 2004 ARIA Award for Best Original Soundtrack, Cast or Show Album for ''Japanese Story'' Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards *Nominated. 1998 Best Music Score for ''Road to Nhill'' *Winner. 2003 Best Music Score for ''Japanese Story'' IF Awards *Nominated. 2004 Best Music for ''Japanese Story'' Screen Music Awards The APRA Music Awards in Australia are annual awards to celebrate excellence in contemporary music, which honour the skills of member composers, songwriters, and publishers who have achieved outstanding success in sales and airplay performan ... *Winner. 2004 Best Feature Film Score for ''Japanese Sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violeta Dinescu
Violeta Dinescu (born 13 July 1953, in Bucharest) is a Romanian composer, pianist and professor, living in Germany since 1982. Romania Violeta Dinescu began her studies of music in 1972 at the conservatory ''Ciprian Porumbescu'' in Bucharest, composition with Myriam Marbe. In 1978 she received her master's degree, ''with distinction''.Label TROUBADISC CDs and Biography She also received diplomas in the fields of , and |
Michelle DiBucci
Michelle DiBucci is an American composer born in 1961 who writes scores for opera, theater, dance, film, and TV. She has composed several of the scores featured in '' Wendigo'', ''Carrier'', ''Gêmeas'' and '' Creepshow''. She is primarily a theater composer, with more than 30 credits. Awards Her soundtrack for ''Wendigo'' won the WNYC New Sounds Listeners Poll: Best New Soundtracks. Her ballet, '' Charlotte Salomon: Der Tod und die Malerin'' (''Charlotte Salomon: Death and the Painter''), was premiered at Musiktheater im Revier in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, in 2015 under the direction and choreography of Bridget Breiner. The work was awarded the 2015 '' Der Faust'', Germany's highest prize for theater and dance, winning in the category of Best Choreography for Breiner. DiBucci's music-theater work, '' Basetrack Live'', had its New York premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Next Wave Festival, in 2014 and was deemed part of the "Best Theater of 2014" list by Charles Isher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sussan Deyhim
Sussan Deyhim (born December 14, 1958) is an Iranian American composer, vocalist, performance artist and activist. She is internationally known for her invention of a unique sonic/vocal language. LA Times quotes her as "One of Iran's most potent voices in exile". Early life Sussan Deyhim was born into a liberal Iranian family on December 14, 1958, in Tehran, Iran. She was the youngest of eleven children and her house was filled with every conceivable style of music, old and new. Growing up, Deyhim spent her summers at a special dance and arts camp at the Caspian Sea and at the Shirazz Festival. At the age of 13, she joined the Iranian National Ballet Company and was offered a scholarship to attend School of Performing Arts in Brussels. Deyhim won coveted admission into the Bejart Ballet in 1976 and moved to New York (1980) to pursue music. Her music remains true to the spirit of her ancient heritage while pointing to the future with a very personal and poetic dramatic sensibility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saraswati Devi (music Director)
Saraswati Devi, born Khorshed Minocher-Homji (1912 – 9 August 1980), was an Indian director of music and score composer who worked in Hindi cinema in the 1930s and 1940s. She is most noted for her score, ''Mein Ban ki Chiriyra Banke Bun Bun Bolun Re'' in Bombay Talkies's '' Achut Kanya'' (1936). She along with Nargis' mother & Sanjay Dutt's grandmother Jaddanbai is considered to be one of the first female music composers in Indian cinema. Early life and education Born in a Parsi family, she had a love for music. Realising this her father made her study Hindustani classical music under Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande who was specialised in Dhrupad and Dhamar style of singing. Later she joined Marris College (later Bhatkhande Music Institute) at Lucknow and studied music. Career With the setting up of an All India Radio station at Mumbai in the late 1920s she, along with her sister Manek, gave musical performances regularly. The programme, known as the Homji Sisters, was very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
