Christopher Young

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Christopher Young
Christopher Young
Christopher Young
Background information
Birth name Robert Gilchrist Ilsley Young
Born April 28, 1957 (1957-04-28) (age 51)
Red Bank, New Jersey, USA
Genre(s) Film score
Occupation(s) Composer
Years active 1982–present
Website http://www.christopher-young.com/

Christopher Young (born April 28, 1957) is an award-winning music composer for film and television. Many of his works were for horror movies, including Hellraiser, Tales from the Hood, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge and Urban Legend. Other works include Lucky You and Spider-Man 3, for which he received the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Dramatic Feature Film. He also made three cameo appearances in Spider-Man 3.

[edit] Biography

Christopher Young was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, USA. He graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music, and then completed his post-graduate work at North Texas State University. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles. A jazz drummer at first, hearing some of Bernard Herrmann's works convinced him to be a film composer. At the UCLA Film School, he studied under the famous David Raksin.

[edit] Filmography

  • Sleep Walking
  • Untraceable
  • Spider-man 3
  • Lucky You
  • Ghost Rider
  • Entrapment
  • Dark Ride (Themes Only)
  • The Grudge 2
  • The Exorcism of Emily Rose
  • At the Dusk (Incomplete Score)
  • Unfinished Life (Partially Used Score)
  • Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (cues used from Sweet November)
  • Beauty Shop
  • The Grudge
  • Hide & Seek (incomplete score)
  • Something the Lord Made
  • Spiderman 2 (additional music)
  • Somethings Gotta Give (additional music)
  • Runaway Jury
  • The Devil and Daniel Webster
  • The Core
  • Shade
  • The Tower
  • The Country Bears
  • Madison (themes only)
  • The Warden
  • The Shipping News
  • Dragonfly (incomplete score)
  • Scenes of the Crime
  • Bandits
  • The Glass House
  • Swordfish
  • Sweet November
  • The Gift
  • The Big Kahuna
  • Wonder Boys
  • Bless the Child
  • Ghost Rider

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