Lior Rosner is an Israeli-born film, TV and classical music composer, conductor, and theme branding expert.
Rosner created the theme for The Ellen DeGeneres Show . He was a nominee for an International Film Music Critics Association nominee award for “They’ll Remember You” an orchestral accompanied choral showpiece for the end titles from the movie Valkyrie.
Born in Israel, Rosner graduated with a degree in music composition and theory graduate from the Jerusalem Academy of Music And Dance He moved from to Los Angeles, where he studied graduate music at UCLA, and conducting at the USC Thornton School of Music.
Lior’s film scoring career began as a staff composer at Fox Entertainment. He provided scores for over 200 episodes of children TV shows and movies produced in conjunction with Saban Entertainment. His Saban compositions were often credited to Shuki Levy and Kussa Mahchi (an alias for Haim Saban), with Rosner typically only being listed in credits as a music producer. This was allegedly so the pair could the collect royalties, as Rosner and all composers working for this company had already agreed to give up the rights to their music prior to joining. [1] After this, he became a freelance composer, scoring for Disney/ABC. Rosen then created the theme and interstitial music for The Ellen DeGeneres Show. [2]
Rosner's film work includes the scores for Wedding Doll, Sins of Our Youth, The Geography Club and Seconds Apart . Other recent credits include music and arrangements X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Jack the Giant Slayer, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Valkyrie, [3] Superman Returns, Fantastic 4: The Rise of the Silver Surfer, Little Fockers, The Invasion, Cellular, Hide & Seek, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant
Rosner created scores for The Odds, The Losers, Battle Creek, The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway and additional music for the ABC show Forever.
More recent credits have included the revival of Will & Grace [4] [2] [5] and the Netflix series AJ and the Queen. [6] [7]
Rosner wrote the score for Sony video games SOCOM Fight Team Bravo 3 and Syphon Filter Dark Mirror.
Rosner, a former member of X-Ray Dog, also created and music for film and television trailers including, Games Of Thrones, The Imitation Game, Paddington, Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, The Zoo Keeper, Yogi Bear, Jack And Jill, Speed Racer, Walk the Line, Dreamer, Atonement, and Toy Story 3 .
Rosner has done music commercial brands: Mercedes Benz, Campari and Hitachi.
Rosner lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
In addition to his music scoring career, Rosner continues to enjoy writing classical music. His most recent recording, released on Bridge Records, is the album, Awake and Dream, featuring Soprano Janai Brugger, violinist Katia Popov (concertmaster of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra), pianist Steven Vanhauwaert, The Hollywood Studio Symphony with Rosner as composer, conductor and pianist.,
Also released is In Time of Silver Rain, Seven Poems by Langston Hughes, also features Janai Brugger and Rosner on piano. Rosner’s classical works have been performed live in concert by the Armadillo String Quartet, the Pacific composers forum and most recently by the Kaleidoscope Orchestra.
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