Mark Graham (orchestrator) explained

Mark Graham
Occupation:Orchestrator, conductor, collaborator
Birth Date:June 23, 1960
Genre:Film scores, soundtracks

Mark Graham (born June 23, 1960) is an orchestrator and conductor for film and television scores. He is the head of music preparation at JoAnn Kane Music Service.[1] Graham has worked with composers such as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, Alexandre Desplat, John Debney and Theodore Shapiro.[2]

Career

Mark Graham has orchestrated music for many films, including A Quiet Place,, Luck and Trumbo.[3] Graham has worked with composer John Williams since 1998. He was a music copyist and librarian on three prequels of the Star Wars franchise, and .[4]

Graham has worked with Alexandre Desplat as an orchestrator, conductor and music director for The Grand Budapest Hotel,[5] an orchestrator for The Secret Life of Pets and the music librarian for Godzilla (2014).[6]

Graham was an orchestrator for composer Alan Silvestri on and conducted the recording session at Abbey Road Studios.[7] He was the music librarian for Silvestri's score to .[8]

In 2017, he conducted an 85-piece ensemble from the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra for Rob Simonsen's score to Going in Style.[9]

Graham has been an orchestrator on many scores by composer Theodore Shapiro, including Ghostbusters (2016),[10] Why Him?,[11] Central Intelligence[12] and The Eyes of Tammy Faye.[13]

For composer John Debney, Graham has been a music librarian for Hotel for Dogs,[14] and an orchestrator for Luck[15] and Hocus Pocus 2. He was the head of music preparation for The Orville[16] and The Jungle Book (2016 film).[17]

Graham was the orchestrator for Dan Romer's score to the Pixar film Luca, and conducted the 82-piece orchestra that recorded the score at Fox's Newman Scoring Stage in 2021.[18]

Many film scores have been adapted for orchestra as a live-to-picture format by Graham, including scores to Jaws, Skyfall, Back to the Future and the Harry Potter and Star Wars franchise. Graham's adaptation of Mark Knopfler's score to The Princess Bride was premiered at the Hollywood Bowl in 2021 by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.[19]

In 2021, he began working with Robbie Robertson on the score to Killers of the Flower Moon. Throughout the scoring process, Robertson would record videos of him singing or playing guitar and send them to Graham for orchestration.[20] On November 9, 2023, Graham conducted segments of music to film at Royce Hall on the University of California, Los Angeles campus as a part of Deadline's Sound & Screen concert.[21]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Yoho . Scott . 2017-05-04 . May the Fourth Spotlight on Joann Kane Music . 2023-11-20 . Finale . en-US.
  2. Web site: graham . mark . Search results from Mark Graham . 2023-11-20 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  3. Web site: graham . mark . Search results from Mark Graham . 2023-11-20 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  4. Web site: Yoho . Scott . 2017-05-04 . May the Fourth Spotlight on Joann Kane Music . 2023-11-20 . Finale . en-US.
  5. Web site: THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL . 2023-11-20 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  6. Web site: Goldwasser . Dan . 2014-05-16 . Alexandre Desplat scores Godzilla . 2023-11-20 . ScoringSessions.com . en-US.
  7. Web site: Release "Avengers: Infinity War" by Alan Silvestri - MusicBrainz . 2023-11-20 . musicbrainz.org.
  8. Web site: Goldwasser . Dan . 2009-04-29 . Alan Silvestri scores Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian . 2023-11-21 . ScoringSessions.com . en-US.
  9. Web site: Goldwasser . Dan . 2017-04-07 . Rob Simonsen scores Zach Braff's Going in Style . 2023-11-20 . ScoringSessions.com . en-US.
  10. Web site: GHOSTBUSTERS (2016) . 2023-11-20 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  11. Web site: WHY HIM? . 2023-11-20 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  12. Web site: Goldwasser . Dan . 2016-06-17 . Theodore Shapiro and Ludwig Göransson score Central Intelligence . 2023-11-20 . ScoringSessions.com . en-US.
  13. Web site: 2021-10-29 . THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE – Theodore Shapiro . 2023-11-21 . MOVIE MUSIC UK . en.
  14. Web site: Goldwasser . Dan . 2008-09-04 . John Debney scores Hotel for Dogs . 2023-11-21 . ScoringSessions.com . en-US.
  15. Web site: G010004860514N Luck: Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film - VGMdb . 2023-11-21 . vgmdb.net . en.
  16. Web site: Goldwasser . Dan . 2017-09-08 . Broughton, McNeely and Debney score MacFarlane's The Orville . 2023-11-21 . ScoringSessions.com . en-US.
  17. Web site: The Jungle Book . 2023-11-21 . Walt Disney Music Credits . en-US.
  18. Web site: Comments . Eden Arnold . 2021-06-30 . Luca Score by Composer Dan Romer, the Music of Pixar's New Film . 2023-11-21 . bleedingcool.com . en.
  19. Web site: 2021-07-27 . 'The Princess Bride' fans at the Hollywood Bowl will hear live score for the first time . 2023-11-21 . Daily News . en-US.
  20. Web site: Greiving . Tim . 2023-11-13 . For his final work, with Martin Scorsese, Robbie Robertson found a personal connection . 2023-11-20 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.
  21. Web site: Lang . Robert . 2023-11-10 . Deadline's Sound & Screen Film Photo Gallery: Portraits and Performances . 2023-11-20 . Deadline . en-US.

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