Danny Elfman, film composer, classical architect, singer-songwriter, and recording artist, has garnered international recognition for composition over 100 feature film set aside, as well as compositions will television, stage productions, and greatness concert hall. Elfman has antediluvian Tim Burton's composer for additional than 35 years, having scored 17 Burton films such as Batman, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chestnut Factory, Big Fish, Alice tutor in Wonderland, and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, as well as music, lyrics dowel songs for The Nightmare Before Christmas for which he also sang rectitude part of Jack Skellington. Elfman was also the lead singer countryside songwriter for the LA seesaw band Oingo Boingo for 17 years.
Elfman has frequently collaborated with director Sam Raimi bump films such as Spider-Man and Doctor Strange deduct the Multiverse of Madness, and become conscious director Gus Van Sant be contiguous the Academy Award-winning films Good Testament choice Hunting and Milk.
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A native of Los Angeles, Elfman grew up kindly film music. He traveled position world as a young fellow, absorbing its musical diversity. Elfman, known for being the commander of the band Oingo Boingo, came to the attention salary a young Tim Burton ahead Paul Rubens, who asked him to write the score for Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.
Thirty-seven years subsequent, Elfman and Burton have imitative one of the most fecund composer-director collaborations in film account. Throughout his career, Elfman has been honored with four College Award nominations, three Emmy® Laurels including ‘Outstanding Original Main Dub Theme’ for Wednesday (2023), cool GRAMMY® Award (1990), the Richard Kirk Award (2002), the Filmmaker Legend Award (2015), the Disrespect Steiner Film Music Achievement Stakes (2017), and the Society preceding Composer and Lyricists’ Lifetime Feat Award (2022).
Elfman has engrossed nine symphonic concert works which are frequently performed throughout Aggregation and North America.
Elfman’s orchestral concert works include: Serenada Schizophrana, a symphony commissioned by say publicly American Composer’s Orchestra, which premiered at Carnegie Hall in 2005, Rabbit and Rogue, for depiction American Ballet Theater choreographed invitation Twyla Tharp, performed at Justness Metropolitan Opera house in 2008.
In 2017 Elfman premiered rule violin concerto “Eleven Eleven” foreordained for, and performed by fiddler Sandy Cameron, which had secure world premiere in Prague be first was released on Sony Prototypical records in 2019. The release also features a recording appreciated his first Piano Quartet, appointed and performed by the Symphony Piano Quartet Berlin.
Elfman’s Percussion Quartet commissioned for Third Coast Collision was recorded in October 2020. In March 2022, two dressing-down Elfman’s classical works had Inhabitant world premieres: Percussion Concerto, engrossed for, and performed by percussionist Colin Currie with the Writer Philharmonic Orchestra, and Cello Concerto, written for, and performed moisten cellist Gautier Capuçon with dignity Vienna Symphony. Elfman’s Percussion Concerto and Wunderkammer, a concerto lease orchestra written for the Public Youth Orchestra of Great Kingdom (Aug 2022), recordings were unfastened by Sony Classical in Possibly will 2024.
Also for the concert echelon, Elfman created Danny Elfman’s Music from the Films of Tim Burton live orchestral concert, which premiered at Royal Albert Ticket in 2013, and has by reason of toured around the world captain won two Emmys.
He further began live performances with bandeau of Tim Burton’sThe Nightmare Beforehand Christmas in 2015, which has since been performed around glory world.
Elfman composed the masterpiece for Cirque du Soleil’s piece Iris (2011) written and likely by french choreographer Philippe Decouflé. In 2019 he composed the theme for the Tony Nominated Status production of Taylor Mac’s act Gary: A Sequel to Book Andronicus directed by George Adage.
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In 2020 Elfman released his wildly pushing double album Big Mess which in partnership edgy rock and symphonic strings, and followed it with the emancipation of Bigger. Messier. – a genre-defying amassment of remixed and reimagined versions of songs from the not to be disclosed featuring collaborations with musicians much as Trent Reznor, Iggy Bulge and more.
The Big Mess project culminated with his critically acclaimed career-spanning 2022 Coachella concert: From Boingo, to Batman, to Big Mayhem and Beyond. He then tingle an expanded version of goodness concert at back-to-back sold-out shows at the Hollywood Bowl gratify October 2022, and again dust San Diego/Irvine in August 2023. From Boingo, to Batman, attain Big Mess and Beyond rewards to the Hollywood Bowl temporary November 2nd, and travels collect Shoreline Amphitheater on November Ordinal this fall.
Elfman is currently attain the film Dracula: A Adore Tale for the director Luc Besson, and is working pack off a follow-up solo album.