Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer, one of very few persons to have won all four major American show business awards: the Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy. He also has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations three times and won a Drama Desk Special Award in 1982. The bulk of his work has arisen from his involvement in theatre, and he is associated especially with the musicals of Stephen Sondheim.

Tunick was born in New York City and is married to actress Leigh Beery.

Work

Stage

Filmography

• The Twelve Chairs - 1970 - musical director, orchestrator
• Blazing Saddles - 1974 - orchestrator
• Young Frankenstein - 1974 - orchestrator
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother- 1975 - orchestrator
• A Little Night Music - 1977 - composer orchestrator, conductor
• Columbo: Murder Under Glass - 1978 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Flying High - 1978 - (television) - composer, conductor
• 3 by Cheever: O Youth and Beauty! - 1979 - (television) - composer, conductor
• 3 by Cheever: The 5:48 - 1979 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Rendezvous Hotel - 1979 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Swan Song - 1980 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Blinded by the Light - 1980 - (television) - composer, conductor
• The Jilting of Granny Weatherall - 1980 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Fort Apache the Bronx - 1981 - composer, conductor
• Endless Love - 1981 - composer, conductor
• Reds - 1981 - orchestrator
• The Shady Hill Kidnapping - 1982 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Night of 100 Stars - 1982 - (television) - music arranger
• Sweeney Todd - 1982 - (television) - orchestrator
• Alice in Wonderland - 1983 - (television) - composer, conductor
• I Am the Cheese - 1983 - composer, conductor
• Murder, She Wrote - 1984 - (television) - series composer, conductor
• Concealed Enemies - 1984 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Brotherly Love - 1985 - (television) - composer, comductor
• Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories - 1985 - (television) - series composer, conductor
• The B.R.A.T. Patrol - 1986 - (television) - composer, conductor
• You Ruined My Life - 1987 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Into the Woods - 1991 - (television) - orchestrator
• Love And War - 1991-3 -(television) - series composer, conductor
• Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall - 1993 - (television) - orchestrator
• The Last Good Time - 1994 - composer
• The Birdcage - 1996 - music arranger and adapter, composer, conductor
• Hey, Mr Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh - 1998 - (television) - orchestrator
• The Fantasticks - 2000 - music adaptor and arranger, conductor
• Find Me Guilty - 2006 - composer, conductor
• Sweeney Todd (Tim Burton film) - 2007 - music adaptor and orchestrator

Awards

• 1977 Oscar - Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score - A Little Night Music
• 1997 Tony Award, Best Orchestrations, for Titanic
• 1988 Grammy, Best Instrumental Arrangement, "No One Is Alone", performed by Cleo Laine
• 1982 Emmy - Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction - Night of 100 Stars
• 1994 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations - Passion
• 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations - Titanic
• 2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations - Lovemusik

References

External links

• Jonathan Tunick at the Internet Broadway Database
• Jonathan Tunick at the Internet Movie Database