Ciaran Hope | |
---|---|
Born | Dublin, Ireland |
Citizenship | Ireland |
Occupation | Composer |
Spouse | Rebecca O'Mara |
Ciaran Hope (born 4 August 1974) is an Irish composer of orchestral, choral, and film music. He is the composer of Hollywood film soundtracks such as Screw Cupid, Truth About Kerry as well as the contemplative soundtrack for The Letters, based on the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. He has also worked extensively in contemporary music since graduating from Trinity College Dublin. He has written a violin concerto for Cora Venus Lunny, a clarinet quartet for the Czech Clarinet Quartet, and his vocal works have been performed internationally by choirs such as Pfizerphonics and Ireland's 2016 choir of the year, Voci Nuove. [1]
Growing up in the Meath village of Dunboyne, Hope was involved with music from early childhood: his mother Kitty played the violin and viola as well as teaching in the DIT College of Music (Chatham Row) and his sister Grainne is a professional cellist. [2] He studied music from a young age and developed a keen interest in clarinet and composition during his teenage years. He attended school at Castleknock College before completing B.A. and B.A.I. degrees in Mathematics and Engineering at Trinity College Dublin. Hope continued his composition studies under the supervision of Ladislav Kubik at the Czech American Summer Music Institute in the Prague Conservatory throughout his college years. [3] He later received a master's degree in Engineering and Music from Trinity College Dublin in 1998. After winning the IMRO Prize for composition at the RTÉ Musician of the Future competition for his solo clarinet piece Diptych, he moved to Los Angeles to attend the UCLA Film Scoring Program on a Fulbright Scholarship. [4] In 1999, he worked as part of the orchestrating team on the score of the Hollywood feature film The Insider , which was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. [5]
In 2012, his scores for Truth About Kerry (2010) and End of the Innocents (2011) were both nominated for a gold medal for Excellence in their respective categories at the Park City Film Music Festival. [6] In 2012 he also provided string arrangements for Irish band Senakah's album Human Relations which was produced by Cranberries guitarist and songwriter Noel Hogan, and recorded in 27 days in the former Bishop's Palace in Limerick. [7]
Having undertaken composer residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie artist's retreat in County Monaghan and the Cill Rialaig artist's retreat in County Kerry with the support of a 2011 Tyrone Guthrie Centre regional bursary award and a 2012 Cill Rialaig residency award, Hope spent four months as the 2013 Composer-in-residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris, where he worked on several pieces including a suite of music for children's orchestras based on a cultural tour of Paris and an opera about revolutionary Robert Emmet's time in France. [8] In 2013 he also began work on the orchestral score for the Hollywood film The Letters based on the life of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. [9] Recorded with the Macedonian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Mother Teresa's home town of Skopje, Macedonia, and with New Dublin Voices choir in her spiritual birthplace of Dublin, Ireland, the score was completed in the summer of 2014 and the film went on release in the US on 4 December 2015. [10] The score has also received many live performances, most notably in the Pantheon in Rome by PfizerPfonics. [11]
According to SonyMusicMasterworks.com and FilmMusicReporter.com, Sony Classical released a soundtrack album for the film in 2016, featuring 23 tracks from Hope's score and the Leona Lewis song "Run". [12] [13] Following the album's release, Hope took a career break to complete an MBA at the prestigious UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in 2017. [14] In a 2021 Linkedin article about "Creativity and its role in strategic thinking", Hope announced that he had accepted a senior role as Director in Innovation and Experience Design with Ernst & Young. [15]
He is married to Irish actress Rebecca O'Mara and is the brother-in-law of actor, Jason O'Mara. [16]
Discography | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Feature films | ||||
Year | Title | Director | Notes | Distributed by |
1998 | The Face of Alexandre Dumas: The Man in the Iron Mask [17] | William Richert | Composer: additional score | |
2000 | The Groom | Víctor Cárdenas | Short film | |
2002 | When Angels Cry | Narendra Reddy | Short film | |
2003 | Manfast [18] | Tara Judelle | Composer: additional music | |
2004 | Interrogation | Christopher Alexander | Short film | |
2005 | GRACE [19] | Antonia Scarpa | ||
Hollywood Horror | Bernt Amadeus Capra | |||
All In [20] | Reggie Jordan | |||
2006 | Little Star | David Plane | Short film | |
2007 | The Healing | Nancy Hendrickson | Short film | |
Martin Did It | Brian McNett | Short film | ||
LA Noir | Conrad Jackson | Short film | ||
2008 | Rend | Brian Lazarte (as Brian David Lazarte) | Short film | |
Screw Cupid [21] | Sanjeev Sirpal | Film1 Sundance Channel | ||
2010 | Truth about Kerry | Katie Torpey | Opus Distribution | |
Milk Carton | Sanjeev Sirpal | Short film | ||
Lovepocalypse | Sanjeev Sirpal | Short film | ||
Fresh Suicide | Anupam Barve | Short film | ||
2011 | End of the Innocents | Chesher Cat (as Deborah Chesher) | Short film | |
2014 | The Letters | William Riead | Freestyle Releasing, Cinema West Films | |
2016 | Roll Camera | Alannah Murray | Short film | |
Speedballs | Cody Farren | Short film | ||
Documentaries | ||||
Year | Title | Director | Notes | Distributed by |
2012 | Mud Pies & Kites: Death & Resurrection in Haiti [22] | Gerard Thomas Straub | ||
Television | ||||
Year | Title | Director | Notes | Distributed by |
2005 | Here! Family | Episodes: 1.2 & 1.3 | ||
2009 | Joni and Friends | Episodes: Ryan: A Legacy of Hope & Family Retreat | ||
Feature films | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Year | Title | Director | Role | Distributed by |
2002 | Virginia's Run | Peter Markle | Sound editing | Alliance Atlantis (Canada) & MGM Home Entertainment (United States) |
2005 | GRACE [23] | Antonia Scarpa | Re-recording mixer | |
All In [24] | Reggie Jordan | Re-recording mixer | ||
2006 | Little Star | David Plane | Re-recording mixer & Sound editor | |
2007 | The Healing | Nancy Hendrickson | Re-recording mixer & Sound editor | |
LA Noir | Conrad Jackson | Re-recording mixer & Sound editor | ||
2008 | Screw Cupid [25] | Sanjeev Sirpal | Re-recording mixer & Sound editor | Film1 Sundance Channel |
2010 | Milk Carton | Sanjeev Sirpal | Re-recording mixer & Sound editor | |
Lovepocalypse | Sanjeev Sirpal | Re-recording mixer & Sound editor | ||
iHeart | Sanjeev Sirpal | Re-recording mixer & Sound editor | ||
Documentaries | ||||
Year | Title | Director | Notes | Distributed by |
2001 | Friends Forever | Ben Wolfinsohn | Sound editor | |
2003 | Betty Blowtorch and Her Amazing True Life Adventures | Antonia Scarpa | Additional sound mixer | |
Television | ||||
Year | Title | Director | Role | Distributed by |
2005 | Here! Family Episodes: 1.2 & 1.3 | Re-recording mixer | ||
Discography | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Feature films | ||||
Year | Title | Director | Role | Distributed by |
1999 | Turbulence II: Fear of Flying | David Mackay | Assistant music editor (uncredited) | Trimark Pictures |
Held Up | Steve Rash | Assistant music editor | Trimark Pictures | |
The Insider | Michael Mann | Orchestrator (uncredited) | Spyglass Entertainment | |
2001 | Killer Bud | Karl T. Hirsch | Assistant music editor | Trimark Pictures |
2003 | Wrong Hollywood Number | José Antonio W. Danner | Additional music scoring mixer | |
Beat the Drum | David Hickson | Virgil Films & Entertainment | Music editor | |
The Devil and Daniel Webster | Alec Baldwin | Music editor (uncredited) | ||
2005 | All In [26] | Reggie Jordan | Orchestrator Musician: piano | |
GRACE [27] | Antonia Scarpa | Orchestrator Musician: woodwinds, piano | ||
Black Oasis | Andrew Lewis | Music scoring mixer | Vision Video | |
2006 | Little Star | David Plane | Orchestrator Music scoring mixer | |
2007 | The Healing | Nancy Hendrickson | Orchestrator Music scoring mixer | |
2008 | Screw Cupid [28] | Sanjeev Sirpal | Orchestrator Music scoring mixer | Film1 Sundance Channel |
2010 | Truth about Kerry | Katie Torpey | Orchestrator Music supervisor | Opus Distribution |
Milk Carton | Sanjeev Sirpal | Music supervisor | ||
iHeart | Sanjeev Sirpal | Music supervisor | ||
2011 | End of the Innocents | Chesher Cat (as Deborah Chesher) | Original score mixer | |
2012 | Mud Pies & Kites: Death & Resurrection in Haiti | Gerard Thomas Straub | Music scoring mixer Musician: woodwinds, piano | Pax et Bonum Communications |
What If | Christopher Papakaliatis | Pro Tools editing | Village Films | |
2014 | The Letters | William Riead | Music producer | Freestyle Releasing, Cinema West Films |
Dinner for few | Athanassios Vakalis | Pro Tools music editor | ||
Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer, pianist, librettist, musicologist, and filmmaker. He is known for numerous film scores, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano. He has written a number of operas, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; Letters, Riddles and Writs; Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs; Facing Goya; Man and Boy: Dada; Love Counts; and Sparkie: Cage and Beyond. He has written six concerti, five string quartets, and many other chamber works, many for his Michael Nyman Band. He is also a performing pianist. Nyman prefers to write opera over other forms of music.
Tyler Bates is an American musician, music producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer for film, television, and video game scores. Much of his work is in the action and horror film genres, with films like Dawn of the Dead, 300, Sucker Punch, Halloween and Halloween II and the John Wick franchise. He has collaborated with directors like Zack Snyder, Rob Zombie, Gennady Tartakovsky, Neil Marshall, William Friedkin, Scott Derrickson, James Gunn, Chad Stahelski and David Leitch. In addition, he is the lead guitarist of the American rock band Marilyn Manson, and produced its albums The Pale Emperor and Heaven Upside Down. He is Jerry Cantrell's touring/studio member.
The music of the Star Wars franchise is composed and produced in conjunction with the development of the feature films, television series, and other merchandise within the epic space opera multimedia franchise created by George Lucas. The music for the primary feature films was written by John Williams. Williams' work on the series included the scores of nine feature films, a suite and several cues of thematic material for Solo and the theme music for the Galaxy's Edge Theme Park. These count among the most widely known and popular contributions to modern film music, and utilize a symphony orchestra and features an assortment of about fifty recurring musical themes to represent characters and other plot elements: one of the largest caches of themes in the history of film music.
Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the film of the same name composed, orchestrated, and conducted by James Horner. The soundtrack was released by Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtrax on November 18, 1997.
Thomas Joseph Gerard Victory was a prolific Irish composer. He wrote over two hundred works across many genres and styles, including tonal, serial, aleatoric and electroacoustic music.
Ciarán Farrell is an Irish composer who has been active in his field since graduating from Trinity College Dublin in 1997. He has composed works for orchestra, ensemble, choir, and solo instruments, as well as for TV and film productions.
Truth about Kerry is a 2011 suspense film. It was written by Shaun O'Sullivan and Katherine Torpey, directed by Katherine Torpey, produced by Shaun O'Sullivan, Katie Torpey & Tony Zanelotti, and stars Stana Katic, Jessica Dean and Darren Keefe. The film was shot in County Kerry, Ireland, and in San Francisco, California, USA. The film premiered in 2010 at the LA Femme Film Festival in Los Angeles, where it won the Best Screenplay Award and later, received its European premiere, in 2011, at the inaugural Charlie Chaplin Film Festival in Waterville, County Kerry, Ireland.
Daniel Licht was an American soundtrack composer and musician, best known for writing the score of Showtime TV drama series Dexter.
New Dublin Voices, an award-winning chamber choir based in Dublin, Ireland, was founded by conductor Bernie Sherlock in October 2005. New Dublin Voices, whose concerts range in style and period from the medieval to the contemporary, takes special pleasure in exploring the music of living composers and has given many Irish premières, as well as numerous world premières of works by Irish composers. As well as giving concerts, New Dublin Voices is a regular participant in competitions, both internationally and at home in Ireland. The singers who make up New Dublin Voices come from many backgrounds, sharing in common high levels of experience and musicianship, a commitment to attracting new audiences, and above all a love of performing excellent choral music.
The Sound of Music: Music from the NBC Television Event, also known as The Sound of Music: 2013 NBC Television Cast, or sometimes simply The Sound of Music, is a soundtrack album for The Sound of Music Live! released by Sony Masterworks on December 3, 2013. Released in CD and digital download formats, the album includes studio recordings instead of live tracks; the live performance was broadcast two days after the album release. A bonus compilation of nine instrumental tracks from the score was available exclusively through Walmart outlets. The album peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200 and number 2 on the Billboard Soundtracks.
The Letters is a 2014 American biographical drama film directed and written by William Riead. The film stars Juliet Stevenson, Max von Sydow, Rutger Hauer and Priya Darshini. It was produced by Colin Azzopardi and Tony Cordeaux. It was released theatrically by Freestyle Releasing on December 4, 2015.
Jean-Michel Bernard is a French pianist, composer, educator, orchestrator, and music producer. He is well known for regularly writing, performing, and scoring for films, such as The Science of Sleep, Hugo, Paris-Manhattan, Ca$h, and Be Kind Rewind.
Rebecca O'Mara is an Irish actress. The Dublin-born actress grew up by the sea in Sandycove and is the voice actor for Caitlin in the children's television series Thomas & Friends.
The soundtrack for the 2018 American superhero film Deadpool 2, based on the Marvel Comics character Deadpool and distributed by 20th Century Fox, consists of an original score composed by Tyler Bates and a series of songs featured in the film. This includes an original single "Ashes", performed by Celine Dion. Bates had worked on all of director David Leitch's previous films before being hired to compose the score for Deadpool 2. In addition to the initial theatrical release of the film, beginning on May 18 in the United States, an extended cut of the film was released on home media on August 21 that featured additional music.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is the film score to the 2017 film of the same name, written, and composed by British composer Henry Jackman. The soundtrack was released digitally on December 15, 2017 through Sony Masterworks. A limited edition Vinyl which consisted of 300 copies was released on May 5, 2018. The score was nominated for the 2018 IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure/Thriller Film.
John Andrew Grush and Taylor Newton Stewart, known collectively as The Newton Brothers, are American film score composers, record producers, and multi-instrumentalists. Their works include scores for several films with director Mike Flanagan, having composed for every project of his since Oculus (2013), as well as various other films and television series. Despite the name, they are not related.
X-Men: First Class is the soundtrack album to the 2011 film X-Men: First Class. The film, directed by Matthew Vaughn, is based on the X-Men characters appearing in Marvel Comics, and is the fourth mainline installment in the X-Men film series and the fifth installment overall. Henry Jackman, who had worked with Vaughn in Kick-Ass (2010) composed the score, becoming the fourth composer to score for the series. The score consisted of pop and rock infused music, which is reminiscent of John Barry's themes from the 1960s.
War for the Planet of the Apes (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the score album for the 2017 film of the same name directed by Matt Reeves. The film is the sequel to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) and the third installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise. The film score is composed by Reeves' frequent collaborator Michael Giacchino, and was digitally released through iTunes and Amazon on July 14, 2017 by Sony Classical Records. It was later released in physical formats on July 28. The score received critical acclaim from critics and fetched numerous accolades.
Red Tails (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to the 2012 war film Red Tails, directed by Anthony Hemingway. The film's musical score is composed by Terence Blanchard with 28 original pieces from the score and four additional compositions from other musicians used in the film. Blanchard recorded the score two years ago and recorded the film's music at the Dvořák Hall in Rudolfinum at Prague for three days. The album was released through Sony Masterworks on January 17, 2012.
Romeo & Juliet is the score soundtrack to the 2013 film Romeo & Juliet, directed by Carlo Carlei; an adaptation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy and stars Douglas Booth and Hailee Steinfeld, as the eponymous principal characters. Abel Korzeniowski composed the film's orchestral score replacing James Horner, who was originally attached to score the film. The soundtrack was released through Sony Masterworks on 1 October 2013.