Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938, New York City, New York) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer, one of twelve people to have won all four major American show business awards: the Tony, Oscar, Emmy and Grammy.

He has worked with all of the other eleven people. His principal instrument is the clarinet. He also 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. He graduated from the LaGuardia Performing Arts High School, and holds degrees from Bard College and the Juilliard School.

Personal life

Tunick is married to actress Leigh Beery.

Work

Stage

• Take Five (co-composer) - 1957
• From A to Z - 1960
• All in Love - 1961
• Promises, Promises - 1968
• Here's Where I Belong - 1968
• Dames at Sea - 1969
• Company - 1970
• The Grass Harp - 1971
• Follies - 1971
• MASS - 1971
• The Selling of the President - 1972
• Sondheim: A Musical Tribute - 1973
• A Little Night Music - 1973
• Smith - 1973
• A Chorus Line - 1975 ("Opening," "Nothing," "At The Ballet," "...And," "What I Did For Love")
• Goodtime Charley - 1975
• The Frogs - 1975
• Pacific Overtures - 1976
• Ballroom - 1978
• Sweeney Todd - 1979
• Merrily We Roll Along - 1981
• Endless Love (composer) - 1981
• Nine - (musical supervisor) 1982
• Nine - 1982
• Alice in Wonderland - (musical supervisor) 1982
• Baby - 1983
• Dance a Little Closer - 1983
• The Wind in the Willows - (musical supervisor) 1985
• Into the Woods - 1987
• Nick & Nora - 1991
• Phantom - 1992^[1]
• A Grand Night for Singing - 1993
• Company (re-orchestrated) - 1993
• Sweeney Todd (re-orchestrated) - 1993
• Passion - 1994
• The Petrified Prince - 1994
• Patti LuPone on Broadway - 1995
• Company - 1995
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (re-orchestrated; originals by Sid Ramin and Irwin Kostal) - 1996
• Martin Guerre - 1996
• Into the Woods - 1997
• Titanic - 1997
• Saturday Night - 1999
• Minnelli on Minnelli - 1999
• Marie Christine - 1999
• Putting It Together - 1999
• Napoleon - 2000
• Follies (re-orchestrated) - 2001
• Into the Woods (re-orchestrated) - 2002
• Elaine Stritch At Liberty - 2001
• Nine - (re-orchestrated) 2003
• 110 in the Shade (re-orchestrated from Hershy Kay's originals) - 2003
• The Frogs (re-orchestrated & expanded) - 2004
• Pacific Overtures - (re-orchestrated) 2004
• The Color Purple - 2005
• A Chorus Line - (re-orchestrated) 2006
• The Apple Tree - (re-orchestrated from Eddie Sauter's originals) 2006
• 110 in the Shade - (re-orchestrated from Hershy Kay's originals) 2007
• Lovemusik - 2007
• A Catered Affair - 2008
• The Story of My Life - 2009
• Oklahoma! - (re-orchestrated from Robert Russell Bennett's originals) 2009
• Bye Bye Birdie - (re-orchestrated from Robert Ginzler's originals) 2009
• Paradise Found - 2010
• Some Lovers - 2011

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 Sorrows of Gin - 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, conductor
• 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. condutor
• 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

External links

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