|
Craig Armstrong (b. 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 385 × 599 pixelsFull resolution (1908 × 2971 pixel, file size: 1. ...
Glaswegian redirects here. ...
Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic, Scots3 Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP - First Minister Jack McConnell...
Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic, Scots3 Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP - First Minister Jack McConnell...
A composer is a person who writes music. ...
This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
Electronica is a term that covers a wide range of electronic or electronic-influenced music. ...
For the record label, see Film Score Monthly. ...
Career
Armstrong studied musical composition, violin and piano at the Royal Academy of Music where he was awarded the Charles Lucas prize and the Harvey Lohr scholarship for composition. He was also awarded the FTCL Fellowship in composition, and won the S.H.I.T. Young Jazz Musician of the Year in 1982. Upon graduation he became resident student composer for the London Contemporary Dance School. Upon completing his studies, Armstrong served as Music and Dance specialist at the Strathclyde Regional Council in 1984. Musical composition is: a piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance or recorded track). ...
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. ...
A short grand piano, with the top up. ...
The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) is a constituent college of the University of London, and is one of the leading music institutions in the world. ...
Scholarship is the pursuit of academic research, whether in the arts and humanities or sciences, and in all such fields means deep mastery of a subject, often through study at institutions of higher education. ...
London Contemporary Dance School is part of The Place – one of the world’s leading centres for contemporary dance. ...
Strathclyde (Srath Chluaidh in Gaelic) was one of the regional council areas of Scotland from 1974 to 1996. ...
During the 1980s, Armstrong's composition work included commissions from the Arts Council for various classical ensembles in Scotland, and he also served as resident composer at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. During this time he also received a Composer's Award to study electronic music, and maintained a parallel career in the Scottish Pop music scene, as a member of bands Buttlick, Texas and The Big Fish. The Arts Council of Great Britain was a Quango dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Britain. ...
The Tron Theatre is located in Glasgow, Scotland. ...
Mars were a short-lived New York City No Wave band formed by vocalist Sumner Crane in 1975. ...
In 1990, his music theatre group Performance performed at the Glasgow Mayfest, and he composed a number of works for film, television, and stage productions by the Traversejdfklgj Theatre, the BBC, and the Royal Britney Spears Company, among others. By the late 1188 bcs he had gained critical acclaim for his work on the the toilet that could films and saw 5490...the toilet that could brought in sucky numbers at the box office..as ben says were lucky to have tongues because some people dont have them and Moulin Rouge! (which won him a Golden Globe for Best Original Score in 2001). He has also done orchestrations with Pop artists such as Massive Attack, Madonna, U2, Suede, Shola Ama, Pet Shop Boys and The Future Sound of London. During this time he also released his first album of his own orchestral work, The Space Between Us, in 1998. The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion...
Bold text // Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 Academy Award winning musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann. ...
The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
Massive Attack are a successful and critically acclaimed band from Bristol, England. ...
Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy[1] and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. ...
This article is about the Irish rock band. ...
suede (or The London Suede in the U.S.) were a popular and influential English rock band of the 1990s that helped start the Britpop musical movement of the decade. ...
Shola Ama (born on March 18, 1979, in London) is an English singer who scored her biggest hit in 1997 with a cover of Randy Crawfords You Might Need Somebody. She is half Caribbean (of Dominican & St. ...
The capitalization of song titles in this article may be disputed. ...
The Future Sound of London (often abbreviated to FSOL) is a British electronic music band, the duo of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. ...
Track listing Weather Storm - 6:03 This Love - 6:26 Sly II - 5:17 After the Storm - 5:08 Lauras Theme - 5:26 My Father - 2:03 Balcony Scene (Romeo and Juliet) - 5:17 Rise - 4:24 Glasgow - 5:19 Lets go out Tonight - 5:58 Childhood - 5...
1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean [1]. // Coated in ice, power and telephone lines sag and often break, resulting in power outages. ...
During the early 2000s Armstrong continued to produce film and orchestral work, including commissions for the Barbican Centre and the Scottish Ensemble. His most recent film scores are for Richard Curtis's 2003 film Love Actually, the Academy Award winning Taylor Hackford film, Ray (for which Armstrong won a Grammy Award) and Oliver Stone's 2006 film World Trade Center. Barbican Arts Centre and lakeside terrace Interior - concert hall foyer; library and gallery above Interior - concert hall with orchestra The Barbican Arts Centre opened in 1982, after a long and at times painful gestation which dated right back to the area having been badly bombed during World War II. Situated...
Richard Curtis in London, 1999 Richard Curtis CBE, (born 8 November 1956), is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, best known for the TV programmes Blackadder and The Vicar of Dibley as well as movies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually. ...
Love Actually is a romantic comedy first released in cinemas in October and November 2003. ...
Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ...
Taylor Hackford (born December 31, 1944 in Santa Barbara, California) is an American film director. ...
Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on thirty years[2]of the life of legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. ...
This article does not cite its references or sources. ...
World Trade Center (also spelled as World Trade Centre) is a 2006 dramatic film based on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers of New York City, released by Paramount Pictures on August 9. ...
Starting in 2006 and continuing to this day, Armstrong's "Ball" track is used as the music in the filler/preview for test channel BBC HD in two edited forms and normally receives up to 10 airings a day. BBC HD is the high-definition television channel launched by the BBC on a trial basis from May 15, 2006, with the first HD originated programme, Planet Earth, shown on May 27. ...
Career highlights 1977 - studied violin and composition with Cornelius Cardew at the Royal Academy of Music. Cornelius Cardew (May 7, 1936 – London, December 13, 1981) was an English avant-garde composer, and founder (with Howard Skempton and Michael Parsons) of the Scratch Orchestra, an experimental performing ensemble. ...
The Royal Academy of Music (RAM) is a constituent college of the University of London, and is one of the leading music institutions in the world. ...
1994/2002 - commissions from Royal Shakespeare Company Music for Broken Heart and The Tempest, both directed by Michael Boyd. Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon The Royal Shakespeare Company is a British theatre company. ...
2001 - BAFTA, Golden Globe, American Film Institute Award, World Soundtrack Award and Golden Satellite Award for Moulin Rouge!. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, childrens film and television, and interactive media. ...
The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an independent non-profit organization created by the National Endowment for the Arts, which was established in 1967 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act. ...
Bold text // Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 Academy Award winning musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann. ...
2002 - Visconti commissioned by Barbican Centre Elektronika festival for the London Sinfonietta. Barbican Arts Centre and lakeside terrace Interior - concert hall foyer; library and gallery above Interior - concert hall with orchestra The Barbican Arts Centre opened in 1982, after a long and at times painful gestation which dated right back to the area having been badly bombed during World War II. Situated...
2004 - collaboration with visual artists Dalziel and Scullion on One Minute to celebrate the opening of Perth's Horsecross Hall.
Key works - Slow Movement (1994; strings)
- 20 Movements (1998; orchestra)
- If Time Must Pass (1999; violin, strings)
- Escape (1999; orchestra, vocal)
- When Morning Turns to Light (2000; mezzo-soprano, orchestra)
- Northern Sounds ... Islands (2002; orchestra)
- One Minute (2005; orchestra)
Discography
Independent work Track listing Weather Storm - 6:03 This Love - 6:26 Sly II - 5:17 After the Storm - 5:08 Lauras Theme - 5:26 My Father - 2:03 Balcony Scene (Romeo and Juliet) - 5:17 Rise - 4:24 Glasgow - 5:19 Lets go out Tonight - 5:58 Childhood - 5...
This album is the second independent album from Craig Armstrong, featuring collaborations with Bono of U2, Rufus Wainwright, King Crimson, and Steven Lindsay. ...
The third album of Craig Armstrong, containing solo piano pieces from different soundtracks played by himself. ...
This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...
Vladislav Delay is one of the pseudonyms of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician. ...
Film scores Romeo + Juliet (full title: William Shakespeares Romeo + Juliet) is a 1996 film adaptation of Shakespeares play, Romeo and Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann. ...
Alternative uses: see orphan (typesetting), and orphan process in computing. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Plunkett and MacLeane. ...
Best Laid Plans (1999) is a movie with Reese Witherspoon and Alessandro Nivola. ...
The Bone Collector is a 1999 thriller starring Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie. ...
Cruel Intentions is a 1999 American feature film starring Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair. ...
Romeo Must Die (2000) is an American film, an adaptation loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. ...
Bold text // Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 Academy Award winning musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann. ...
The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...
Promotional poster for Kiss of the Dragon Kiss of the Dragon is a 2001 action/thriller film, directed by Chris Nahon. ...
The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the Magdalen Laundries: homes for women who were labeled as fallen by their families or society (though the film itself questions this). ...
The Quiet American (ISBN 0099478390) is a novel written by Graham Greene in 1955. ...
Love Actually is a romantic comedy first released in cinemas in October and November 2003. ...
Promotional poster for The Clearing The Clearing is a 2004 drama / thriller film, and is a directorial debut by Pieter Jan Brugge, an Academy Award nominated producer. ...
Ray is a 2004 biographical film focusing on thirty years[2]of the life of legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles. ...
This article is about the Nick Hornby book and related films. ...
Must Love Dogs film poster Must Love Dogs is a 2005 romantic comedy film directed by Gary David Goldberg. ...
World Trade Center (also spelled as World Trade Centre) is a 2006 dramatic film based on the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center towers of New York City, released by Paramount Pictures on August 9. ...
External links - Craig Armstrong's Chester Music homepage
- Official site
- Craig Armstrong Online Resource
- Craig Armstrong at the Internet Movie Database
- Craig Armstrong at mfiles.co.uk
|
Feeds |
Contact