Carter Burwell
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Carter Burwell (born November 18, 1955, in New York City) is a composer of film scores. He graduated from King School in Stamford, Connecticut,[citation needed] and Harvard College.
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[edit] Career
As a film composer, Burwell has had a long working relationship with the Coen Brothers, providing music for every film they have made (except for O Brother, Where Art Thou?, where he simply provided additional music to a score primarily composed by T Bone Burnett). He enjoys working with left-field directors and has also scored Spike Jonze's films. Among his best known non–Coen Brothers film scores are And the Band Played On (1993), Conspiracy Theory (1997), Hamlet (2000), The Spanish Prisoner (1997), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), and In Bruges (2008) and Twilight (2008).
Burwell, like most composers, studied piano. Starting lessons when he was 7, he studied Mozart mostly, but eventually quit.
In April 2005, Burwell composed and conducted music, performed by The Parabola Ensemble, for the plays "Sawbones" written and directed by the Coen Brothers, "Hope Leaves the Theater" written and directed by Charlie Kaufman and "Anomalisa" written and directed by Francis Fregoli. This was a segment of the sound-only production Theater of the New Ear, which debuted at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY with support from Sirius Satellite Radio, United Talent Agency and Sony Pictures.
Burwell married Christine Sciulli in 1999.[1]
[edit] Thick Pigeon
Burwell once played in a band named Thick Pigeon with Stanton Miranda. The group only released two albums, Too Crazy Cowboys and Miranda Dali. On Burwell's soundtrack for Psycho III, Miranda was a featured singer.
[edit] Selected filmography
- 1984: Blood Simple
- 1986: Psycho III
- 1987: Raising Arizona
- 1990: Miller's Crossing
- 1991: Barton Fink
- 1992: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- 1993: This Boy's Life
- 1993: Wayne's World 2
- 1993: Kalifornia
- 1993: And the Band Played On
- 1994: The Hudsucker Proxy
- 1995: Rob Roy
- 1995: A Goofy Movie
- 1996: Fear
- 1996: Fargo
- 1997: Conspiracy Theory
- 1997: The Spanish Prisoner
- 1997: The Jackal
- 1998: Velvet Goldmine
- 1998: The Big Lebowski
- 1998: Gods and Monsters
- 1999: Mystery, Alaska
- 1999: Three Kings
- 1999: Being John Malkovich
- 2000: Before Night Falls
- 2000: Hamlet
- 2002: The Man Who Wasn't There
- 2002: The Rookie
- 2002: Adaptation.
- 2003: Intolerable Cruelty
- 2004: The Ladykillers
- 2004: Kinsey
- 2004: The Alamo
- 2006: The Hoax
- 2006: Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
- 2006: The Fox and the Hound 2
- 2007: No Country for Old Men
- 2007: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
- 2008: In Bruges
- 2008: Burn After Reading
- 2008: Twilight
- 2009: Where the Wild Things Are
