Cliff Eidelman | |
Birth Date: | 1964 12, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Birth Name: | Clifford Glen Eidelman |
Occupation: | Composer, conductor |
Clifford Glen Eidelman (born December 5, 1964) is an American composer and conductor who has scored films including , , and .
Eidelman began his formal training in violin at the age of eight and continued with multi-instrument training ranging from piano and guitar in genres such as jazz to classic music in his youth.[1] After studying music at Santa Monica College and the University of Southern California, he scored his first feature film Magdalene in 1989.
His breakthrough composition was the 1991 score to .[2]
In the years after, Eidelman continued to compose dramatic and epic scores such as .[3] As Eidelman's style of composing changed towards more sentimental and minimalistic scores, so did the films for which he scored.
Eidelman currently resides in Santa Monica, California and continues to score movies.