BLUE ROOM TALKS
JOHN POWELL
Germaine Franco
John Powell was catapulted into the realm of A-list composers by displaying an entirely original voice with his oft-referenced scores to the Matt Damon/”Bourne” film trilogy. He has become the go-to writer for family animated films, scoring such hits as “Shrek,” “Chicken
Run,” “Ice Age: The Meltdown,” “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” “Bolt,” “Rio,” “Happy Feet,” “Happy Feet 2,” “Kung Fu Panda,” “Kung Fu Panda 2,” “Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax” and “Ice Age: Continental Drift.”
His pulsating action music has provided the fuel for “Hancock,” “Green Zone,” “Stop Loss,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” and “The Italian Job.” Powell’s music has also sweetened the romance of “Two Weeks Notice” and “P.S. I Love You,” empowered “X-Men: The Last Stand,” lent tenderness to “I Am Sam” and gripping drama to “United 93.”
Powell’s infectious score for “How to Train Your Dragon” earned him his first Academy Award nomination. He received BAFTA nominations for “How to Train Your Dragon,” “Happy Feet” and “Shrek” and was nominated for a Grammy in 2008 for his work on “Happy Feet. Powell is the recipient of four Ivor Novello Awards for Best Original Film Score from the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, for “Shrek,” “Ice Age: The Meltdown,” “Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” and “How To Train Your Dragon.” This year, he completed the score to “RIO 2” for Fox and “How to Train Your Dragon 2” for Dreamworks Animation.
Powell will premiere a new Oratorio to commemorate WWI with the Philharmonia Orchestra in London in January of 2015.
A native of London, Powell
was an accomplished
violinist as a child, wrote
music for commercials out
of school, and assisted
composer Patrick Doyle in
the early 1990s. He moved
to the U.S. in 1997 he
scored the film Face-Off
and co-wrote the score for
“Antz,”. Powell quickly
became one of the most
desirable, versatile, and
exciting composers in town.
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John Powell will be giving our first talk as a Video Conference 14th May! Watch your emails!! Limited Capacity