Summer Film & TV Music

August 20, 2009 A few years later, an obscure avant-garde composer named Elliot Goldenthal was hanging around NYU in an effort to learn more about the film industry, and an unknown, London-based musician named Harry Gregson-Williams was about to make a life-changing connection with an up-and-coming composer named Hans Zimmer. Meanwhile, back in New York, another young, ambitious composer named Michael Giacchino was dividing his time between a marketing job at Disney and composition classes at Juilliard. Since then, all four have gone on to create music for some of the biggest films of the past decade, often working repeatedly with A-list directors and becoming the envy of the next generation of aspiring composers.

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