Atli Örvarsson

Atli Örvarsson
Atli Örvarsson
	Atli Örvarsson in 2016
Background information
Born	7 July 1970 (age 54)
Origin	Akureyri, Iceland
Genres	Film scores
Occupation(s)	Composer, conductor, musician, songwriter
Instrument(s)	Percussion; keys
Years active	2000–present
Website	www.atlimusic.com

Atli Örvarsson (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈaʰtlɪ ˈœrvar̥sɔn]; born 7 July 1970) is an Icelandic film score composer. Atli's credits include composing and orchestrating music for some of Hollywood's biggest projects, including the Pirates of the Caribbean series, Angels & Demons, The Holiday, The Eagle, Vantage Point, Babylon A.D., Thick as Thieves, The Fourth Kind, and Season of the Witch. Atli's most recent credits include The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, A Single Shot, NBC series Chicago Fire, and together with Hans Zimmer contributed music to the Zack Snyder Superman reinstallment Man of Steel.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Originally from the small town of Akureyri, Atli became established in the local music scene at a young age. He earned three platinum and two gold records as a member of the Icelandic band Sálin hans Jóns míns before studying film composing at Berklee College of Music and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. He excelled in composing and was awarded the Pete Carpenter Fellowship, which brought him to Los Angeles. He began working alongside TV veteran Mike Post on NYPD Blue and three Law & Order brands. Atli soon caught the attention of composer Hans Zimmer, who extended an invitation to join his team at Remote Control Productions.

Filmography

Year	Title	Director	Notes
2005	Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild	Audu Paden
2007	The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams	A. Blaine Miller
2008	Vantage Point	Pete Travis
2008	Babylon A.D.	Mathieu Kassovitz
2009	Thick as Thieves	Mimi Leder
2009	The Fourth Kind	Olatunde Osunsanmi
2011	Season of the Witch	Dominic Sena
2011	The Eagle	Kevin Macdonald
2013	Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters	Tommy Wirkola
	The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones	Harald Zwart
	A Single Shot	David M. Rosenthal
2015	The Perfect Guy	David M. Rosenthal	Co-composed With David Fleming
2015	Rams	Grímur Hákonarson
2016	Bilal: A New Breed of Hero	Khurram H. Alavi Ayman Jamal
2017	The Edge of Seventeen	Kelly Fremon Craig
2017	The Hitman's Bodyguard	Patrick Hughes
2018	How It Ends	David M. Rosenthal
2019	Jacob's Ladder	David M. Rosenthal
2020	Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga	David Dobkin
2021	Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard	Patrick Hughes
2022	No Limit	David M. Rosenthal

Year	Title	Network	Notes
2002, 2005	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	NBC	Co-composed with Mike Post
2003-2004	L.A. Dragnet	ABC	Co-composed with Mike Post
2006	Six Degrees	ABC	Co-composed with Michael Giacchino & Adam Cohen
2010	Law & Order: Los Angeles	NBC	Theme music composed by Mike Post
2012–present	Chicago Fire^[4]
2014–present	Chicago P.D.
2015–present	Chicago Med^[5]
2017	Chicago Justice
2019–present	FBI	CBS
2020–present	FBI: Most Wanted	CBS
2020	Defending Jacob	Apple TV+	Theme music composed by Ólafur Arnalds
2022	Unprecedented	Discovery+
2023	Silo	Apple TV+

^ "Atli Örvarsson: Rising Star Composers". ASCAP. 1 September 2007. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ Florino, Rick (10 March 2011). "Atli Örvarsson Talks Scoring "The Eagle"". artistdirect.com. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ Levine, Sydney (18 February 2016). "'Rams' Composer Atli Örvarsson Wins Best Film Score at the 2016 HARPA Awards". IndieWire. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ "Credits". Chicago Fire. NBC. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
^ "Credits". Chicago Med. NBC. Retrieved 23 September 2016.

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