Stephen Endelman
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Biography:
English-born composer Stephen Endelman began playing the clarinet at the age of seven, studied at The Purcell School of Young Musicians and London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and graduated from the Banff School of Fine Arts in Alberta, Canada. By the age of 18, Endelman had composed the music for the Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's "A Moon for the Misbegotten", and shortly thereafter moved to New York in 1992 to pursue and develop a career in film music. He made his film music debut in 1993, assisting composer Butch Barbella on Robert De Niro's "A Bronx Tale", and composed his first solo score, "Household Saints", later in the same year. Since then, Endelman has written music for a small number of high quality films, including popular titles such as "The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain" (1995), "Tom and Huck" (1995), "Flirting With Disaster" (1996), "Operation Condor" (1997) and the recent "De-Lovely" (2004), for which he adapted and arranged a number of songs by Cole Porter. In addition to his cinema work, Endelman has also written two operas, and is heavily involved with the work of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, for whom he wrote "Passport To The Universe", a public commission for them to commemorate the first Space Show, which was narrated by Tom Hanks, and "The Search For Life, Are We Alone", the second show, narrated by Harrison Ford. He has been the resident artist at the Metropolitan Opera Guild since 1993, and lives in New York.
Reviews:
De-Lovely, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Evelyn, O Jerusalem and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Filmography:
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009), Streets of Blood (2009), Free Style (2008), Redbelt (2008), Samurai Girl (2008), The Grand (2007), Home of the Brave (2006), O Jerusalem (2006), Phat Girlz (2006), The Net 2.0 (2006), Kings of the South Bronx (2005), Special Thanks to Roy London (2005), The Blue Butterfly (2004), De-Lovely (2004), And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003), Evelyn (2002), I'm With Lucy (2002), Ball in the House (2001), Bride of the Wind (2001), Blue Moon (2000), Two Family House (2000), Earthly Possessions (1999), Jawbreaker (1999), Finding Graceland (1998), The Proposition (1998), Keys to Tulsa (1997), City of Industry (1997), Kicked in the Head (1997), Operation Condor (1997), Cosi (1996), Flirting with Disaster (1996), Ed (1996), Tom and Huck (1995), Jeffrey (1995), The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain (1995), The Journey of August King (1995), Reckless (1995), The Desperate Trail (1994), Imaginary Crimes (1994), Postcards from America (1994), A Bronx Tale (1993), Household Saints (1993).
Highest Grossing Films as at end of 2008 (adjusted for inflation):
Tom and Huck ($39.6m), Flirting with Disaster ($23.9m), The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain ($18.0m), Operation Condor ($16.3m), De-Lovely ($15.6m), Phat Girlz ($7.4m), Ed ($7.2m), Jeffrey ($5.7m), Jawbreaker ($4.4m), City of Industry ($2.5m)
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