Chris Egan (musician)

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Chris Egan is a British composer, orchestrator, conductor and musical director who has worked extensively on film, television and theatre music, as well as live concerts. [1]

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Career

Film

Egan worked on the scores for Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them , Ethel & Ernest , and Napoleon. [2] He is also a score composer debut for the 2022 British Canadian France film Fireheart & The Prince Directed by Cameron Van Hoy and Written by David Mamet, starring Nicolas Cage, Scott Haze, Andy Garcia, J.K Simmons and Giancarlo Esposito

Television

His work on music for television includes Pole to Pole for Disney + and National Geographic, Tiny World for apple tv, In the Womb animal babies for Disney+, The Spanish Princess for Starz, The Halcyon ITV, Cilla ITV Man Down Channel 4 seasons1 - 4 starring Greg Davis, Rick Mayall, Stephanie Cole, Roisin Conaty & Mike Wozniak, Upstairs Downstairs BBC, Horton and the Lady and Britannia High. [2] [3]

Theatre

Egan has worked on musical direction and orchestration for a number of musical theatre productions. He has written new music for High Noon The New West end play Written by Eric Roth Directed by Thea Sharrock, starring Billy Crudup, Denise Gough, Rosa Salazar and Billy Howle.

Egan arranged and wrote original music for The Bodyguard Directed by Thea Sharrock, he wrote original music for The Water Babies, End Of The Rainbow on Broadway , The Pajama Game, I Can’t Sing, Dance ‘Til Dawn, Kiss Me Kate, Crazy For You, Witches Of Eastwick, Grease, and Footloose . [2]

Concert

Egan has Orchestrated the Above and Beyond acoustic albums 1-3 and conducted their Hollywood Bowl Concert. Egan has also been Elaine Paige's musical director for her concert performances. [4] [5] He also worked on her series for Sky Arts, The Elaine Paige Show . He has been the musical director for Shirley Bassey and Lionel Richie. [2]

Production music

Egan has written and produced music for the production music house Audio Network. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Thompson, W.; Davis, C. (2016). Carl Davis: Maestro. Faber Music Limited. p. 4. ISBN   978-0-571-59005-6 . Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 www.dewynters.com, DEWYNTERS |. "The Bodyguard Musical". The Bodyguard Musical. Archived from the original on 4 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  3. ↑ "TV and film composer Chris Egan talks techniques and using Spectrasonics". Time+Space. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Elaine Paige In Concert | Review | The Stage". The Stage. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  5. ↑ "Elaine Paige: Page by Page by Paige (Royal Albert Hall)". WhatsOnStage.com. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
  6. ↑ "Chris Egan Music: Listen, Buy & Download Tracks by Chris Egan". Audio Network. Retrieved 4 April 2018.
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