Christopher Gunning

Christopher Gunning

Nacimiento : 1944-08-05, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

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Christopher Gunning (born 5 August 1944) is an English composer of concert works and music for films and television. Gunning was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. He studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where his tutors included Edmund Rubbra and Richard Rodney Bennett. Gunning's film and TV compositions have received many awards, including the 2007 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music for La Vie en Rose, as well as three additional awards for Agatha Christie's Poirot, Middlemarch, and Porterhouse Blue. He has also won three Ivor Novello Awards, for the TV miniseries Rebecca, and the film scores for Under Suspicion (1991), and Firelight (1997). His other film scores include Goodbye Gemini (1970), Hands of the Ripper (1971), Ooh... You Are Awful (1972), the film version of Man About the House (1974), In Celebration (1975), Rogue Male (1976), Charlie Muffin (1979), Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981), Knights of God (1987), When the Whales Came (1989), Lighthouse Hill (2004) and Grace of Monaco (2014). In the 1970s and 1980s, Gunning collaborated with rock musician Colin Blunstone and was responsible for the distinctive string arrangement on Blunstone's 1972 hit "Say You Don't Mind". He also provided the haunting string arrangements on "Won't Somebody Dance With Me", the Ivor Novello award-winning song written and performed by Lynsey De Paul as well as another of de Paul's hit singles "My Man and Me" and her 1974 album "Taste Me... Don't Waste Me". Gunning's scores for The Big Battalions, Wild Africa, Cold Lazarus and When the Whales Came also received nominations for BAFTA and Ivor Novello Awards, and his music for the Martini advertising campaign, heard around the world for thirty years, won three Clio Awards. Gunning composed the music for nearly all of the Poirot TV films starring David Suchet, and worked on all three series of Rosemary and Thyme featuring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris. In addition to performances of his television and film scores, Gunning's Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra and The Lobster have been performed at various venues including London's Southbank Centre. The Saxophone Concerto, played by John Harle with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, has been released by Sanctuary Classics, The Lobster is available on the Meridian label, and the Piano Concerto, Symphony No. 1 and Storm have been released by Albany Records. Recent works include concertos for the oboe and clarinet and the CD Skylines. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra performed the premiere of Symphonies No.3 and No.4, coupled with Concerto for Oboe and String Orchestra. This has been released by Chandos Records. Gunning has now completed twelve symphonies, several of which have been recorded by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer and released on Signum Classics. In recognition of Gunning's unique contribution to music, he received a BASCA Gold Badge Award 19 October 2011. Gunning has four daughters and lives in Hertfordshire. One of his daughters is a professional oboist. Another runs the travel blog wanderlustchloe.com. Source: Article "Christopher Gunning" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Christopher Gunning

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Grace de Mónaco
Grace de Mónaco
Music
A los 33 años, Grace Kelly, una gran estrella de Hollywood, renunció a su carrera como actriz para casarse en 1956 con el príncipe Rainiero III y convertirse en Su Alteza Serenísima la Princesa Gracia de Mónaco. La historia se ambienta en plena crisis política y económica entre Francia y Mónaco, crisis en la que la actriz americana estuvo involucrada.
La vida en rosa (Edith Piaf)
La vida en rosa (Edith Piaf)
Orchestra conductor
Biografía de la famosa cantante francesa Edith Piaf (1915-1963): su infancia, su adolescencia y su ascensión a la gloria. De los barrios bajos de París al éxito de Nueva York, la vida de Edith Piaf fue una lucha por sobrevivir y amar. Creció en medio de la pobreza, pero su voz mágica y sus apasionados romances y amistades con las grandes personalidades de la época (Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan) hicieron de ella una estrella mundial.
La vida en rosa (Edith Piaf)
La vida en rosa (Edith Piaf)
Original Music Composer
Biografía de la famosa cantante francesa Edith Piaf (1915-1963): su infancia, su adolescencia y su ascensión a la gloria. De los barrios bajos de París al éxito de Nueva York, la vida de Edith Piaf fue una lucha por sobrevivir y amar. Creció en medio de la pobreza, pero su voz mágica y sus apasionados romances y amistades con las grandes personalidades de la época (Yves Montand, Jean Cocteau, Charles Aznavour, Marlene Dietrich, Marcel Cerdan) hicieron de ella una estrella mundial.
Lighthouse Hill
Lighthouse Hill
Original Music Composer
After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than they should.
A la luz del fuego
A la luz del fuego
Original Music Composer
Inglaterra, 1838. Para poder pagar las cuantiosas deudas de su padre, una hermosa institutriz acepta ser madre de alquiler y dar a luz al hijo de un anónimo hacendado inglés. Según lo acordado, nada más nacer da al niño en adopción. Siete años más tarde es contratada como institutriz de una niña en un remoto paraje de Sussex. El padre de la niña, Charles Godwin, resulta ser el anónimo terrateniente.
El silencio de la sospecha
El silencio de la sospecha
Original Music Composer
Tony Aaron es un policía que ha caído en desgracia y se ha visto obligado a convertirse en detective privado. Se encarga de casos de divorcios y otro tipo de tareas rutinarias. Pero un día asesinan a su mujer y él se convierte en uno de los principales sospechosos. Entonces, luchará para limpiar su nombre y el de otra joven también implicada en el crimen.
Cuando vuelvan las ballenas
Cuando vuelvan las ballenas
Music
Un par de niños traba amistad con un anciano solitario que vive aislado en un extremo de la isla donde habitan. El anciano conoce un secreto terrible sobre la isla y sobre los narvales que acuden a ella cada cierto tiempo. Mientras tanto, en Europa tiene lugar la I Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). (FILMAFFINITY)
The Alamut Ambush
The Alamut Ambush
Music
This British espionage thriller stars Terence Stamp as David Audley, former Oxford professor turned intelligence agent.
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Original Music Composer
The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
Running Blind
Running Blind
Music
Cold War thriller set in Iceland – a British agent and his Icelandic fiancee try to protect an electronic device from falling into the clutches of the KGB.
Rogue Male
Rogue Male
Original Music Composer
Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and left for dead, Sir Robert makes his way back to England where he discovers the Gestapo has followed him. Knowing that his government would turn him over to German authorities, Sir Robert goes underground in his battle with his pursuers.
In Celebration
In Celebration
Music
En una ciudad minera de Yorkshire, tres hermanos universitarios vuelven a casa de sus padres proletarios para celebrar su 40 aniversario de boda, pero oscuros secretos les aguardan...
Un hombre en casa
Un hombre en casa
Original Music Composer
Un promotor inmobiliario sin escrúpulos quiere aplanar la calle para dar paso a nuevos edificios. El casero George Roper está feliz de tomar el dinero ofrecido, pero su esposa Mildred y sus inquilinos se unen a otros residentes para tomar una posición y mantener las cosas como son.
Tatuajes indiscretos
Tatuajes indiscretos
Original Music Composer
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him which Bank when he is killed by Sid Sabbath's gang whose girlfriend Reggie had an affair with. The only lead is four tattoos that is on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail. But Sabbath is on Charlie's trail to kill him and the Italians contract the mob - to find the money and then kill him.....
Las manos del Destripador
Las manos del Destripador
Original Music Composer
Londres, finales del siglo XIX. La hija de Jack el Destripador continúa la estela de su padre. Cuando se da cuenta de que la influencia de su padre la está llevando a cometer una serie de salvajes crímenes, busca la ayuda de un psiquiatra.
Goodbye Gemini
Goodbye Gemini
Music
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.