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Geoff Zanelli (born September 28, 1974) is an Emmy winning composer working primarily in the medium of film and television music. His early career was notable for scoring additional music on roughly 30 film scores written by Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, Klaus Badelt and Steve Jablonsky including Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, The Last Samurai, Pearl Harbor, Equilibrium and Hannibal. He has since moved on to more solo work, including his 2006 Emmy-winning score for Steven Spielberg's miniseries Into The West, as well as the films Secret Window, House of D and the upcoming films Disturbia and Delgo. is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the 1974 Gregorian calendar. ... An Emmy Award. ... Hans Florian Zimmer (born September 12, 1957) is an Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe award-winning film score composer from Germany. ... Harry Gregson-Williams (born December 13, 1961) is a Grammy-nominated British film score composer. ... For the geologist and U.S. explorer, see John Wesley Powell, for the Mayor of Toronto see John Powell (politician). ... Klaus Badelt Born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1968 is a German composer, best known for composing film scores. ... Steve Jablonsky is a music composer for film, television and video games. ... Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a movie of adventure and romance set in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century. ... The Last Samurai is an action/drama film written by John Logan and Edward Zwick & Marshall Herskovitz based on a story by Logan. ... This article is about the harbor in Hawaii. ... Equilibrium is a 2002 action/science fiction film written and directed by Kurt Wimmer. ... Hannibal, the son of Hamilcar Barca, (247 BC – ca. ... Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946)[1] is an American film director and producer. ... Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks which began as a six-week event on June 10, 2005 on Turner Network Television (TNT). ... Secret Window is a 2004 thriller starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. ... In House of D, which was David Duchovnys directorial debut, Duchovny plays an American artist living in Paris, who reminisces about growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1970s. ... Disturbia is a 2007 thriller film from DreamWorks Pictures, starring Shia LaBeouf as a depressed teen placed under house arrest who thinks he witnesses a murder while spying on his suspicious neighbor. ... Delgo is the name of: Delgo, Sudan - the Sudanese town. ...


He is from Westminster, California, is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, currently writes from Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, and has worked with filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Edward Zwick, John Woo, David Duchovny and Michael Bay. Location of Westminster within Orange County, California. ... Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. ... Sir Ridley Scott (born November 30, 1937 in South Shields, County Durham) is an influential Academy Award-nominated English film director, and producer. ... Jerome Leon Bruckheimer (born September 21, 1945) is a film and television producer in the genre of action, drama, and science fiction. ... Gregor Verbinski (b. ... Jeffrey Katzenberg (born December 21, 1950 in New York City) is an American film producer and Chief Executive Officer of DreamWorks Animation SKG. He is perhaps most famous for his period as studio chairman at The Walt Disney Company, and for producing the movie Shrek (2001). ... Edward Zwick (born October 8, 1952 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film director and film producer. ... For other uses, see John Woo (disambiguation). ... David William Duchovny (born August 7, 1960) is a Golden Globe Award-winning American television and film actor perhaps best known for his role as Fox Mulder on The X-Files. ... Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. ...


Aside from film and television scores, Zanelli has also worked with recording artists, writing string arrangements for the bands Mest, Story of the Year, and for Robbie Williams. He has also been credited as a guitarist/bassist/synthsist on the song "I'm Not Dead" from recording artist P!nk. Mest was a pop punk band from Blue Island, Illinois. ... Story of the Year (a. ... For footballers with the same name, see Robbie Williams (footballer). ... Alecia Moore (born September 8, 1979), better known by her stage name Pink (also written as P!nk), is a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter who first gained prominence in North America in early January of 2000. ...


Biography

Zanelli began his musical career as a guitar player for numerous bands in California. While attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music on scholarship, Zanelli dual majored in Film Scoring and Music Production/Engineering. He was the recipient of both the Doug Timm Award in recognition of his film scoring work and the Music Production and Engineering Scholar Award prior to graduating Magna Cum Laude. Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ...


Zanelli then met Academy Award-winning film composer Hans Zimmer in 1994 and moved to Los Angeles to join Zimmer’s studio team. He became the assistant engineer on the debut album from Goldfinger, working with Grammy Award-winning producer Jay Rifkin for Media Ventures affiliate Mojo Records. His engineering background also proved valuable as an assistant engineer on Hans Zimmer's Academy Award-nominated score for The Preacher's Wife. For other uses, see Goldfinger. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Biography Jay Rifkin is the grammy and tony award winning producer, together with producing and composing partner Hans Zimmer, created Media Ventures, a multifaceted entertainment group that includes music, new media, film and television. ... Media Ventures is the former joint-venture between Hans Zimmer and Jay Rifkin. ... Mojo Records is currently part of Universal Records. ... The Preachers Wife is a 1996 film directed by Penny Marshall and produced by Debra Martin Chase. ...


Zanelli's experience led to working with British composer John Powell on his first Hollywood feature, Face/Off, directed by John Woo. Throughout the following years, Zanelli was called on as a composer and arranger for Powell on many feature films, including The Prince of Egypt and Forces of Nature. He later teamed with Harry Gregson-Williams and Powell to write additional music for Antz and Chicken Run. This led to more collaborations, this time with Hans Zimmer on Hannibal, the Golden Globe-nominated scores for Pearl Harbor and The Last Samurai and Pirates Of The Caribbean: The Curse Of The Black Pearl, as well as Pirates of The Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest. Face/Off is a 1997 film directed by John Woo starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage. ... For other uses, see John Woo (disambiguation). ... The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 Academy Award-winning American animated film, the first traditionally animated film produced and released by DreamWorks. ... This page has been deleted, and should not be re-created without a good reason. ... Antz is a computer-animated film produced by DreamWorks. ... This article is about the movie. ... The Golden Globe Awards are American awards for motion pictures and television programs, given out each year during a formal dinner. ...


He has since moved on to more solo work, scoring David Duchovny's feature directorial debut House Of D, David Koepp’s Secret Window and Steven Spielberg's Golden Globe Nominated Into The West for Dreamworks/TNT, which also received 16 Emmy nominations. Zanelli won an Emmy for his score for Into The West, one of two Emmy wins for the show. David Koepp (born June 9, 1963 in Pewaukee, Wisconsin) is an American screenwriter and director. ... This article is about the film studio. ... Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of Time Warner. ...


Filmography (as principal composer)

2008

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2005 Hitman is a 2007 film adaptation of the video game series Hitman. ... Delgo (2005) is an upcoming animated feature film by an Atlantas Fathom Studios, in independent house. ... Disturbia is a 2007 thriller film from DreamWorks Pictures, starring Shia LaBeouf as a depressed teen placed under house arrest who witnesses a murder while spying on his suspicious neighbors. ...

2004 Into the West is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks which began as a six-week event on June 10, 2005 on Turner Network Television (TNT). ...

2001 In House of D, which was David Duchovnys directorial debut, Duchovny plays an American artist living in Paris, who reminisces about growing up in Greenwich Village in the 1970s. ... Secret Window is a 2004 thriller starring Johnny Depp and John Turturro. ...

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  • Article about Zanelli's Emmy win for Into The West
  • Soundtrack.net's coverage of the recording of Zanelli's score for Disturbia


 
 

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