Alex Mansour

Alex Mansour

Historia

Alexander Mansour is a composer, pianist, and cellist from Los Angeles California. As a composer, Alex is passionate about writing for both the concert hall and the screen. Most recently, he scored an AFI Feature Documentary selection, "Hesburgh" (dir. Patrick Creadon), which just finished its theatrical distribution. His chamber music has been performed at the Bowdoin and Atlantic Music Festivals. He will study and premier a new commission at the Yale School of Music this summer (2020) for the Norfolk New Music Festival. A recent orchestral work (Fantasy Noir) was premiered by USC's Thornton Symphony in February 2020, and a prior orchestral work (Across the Sea) was commissioned and performed by the Notre Dame Symphony Orchestra in 2018. His music for media has been featured on NBC Broadcasts and Netflix original content. Over the years, he has been recognized twice an ASCAP Finalist in the Morton Gould Young Composer Competition and the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. Alex is very grateful to join the USC Thornton School of Music where he studies with Professor Donald Crockett in pursuit of the Masters in Music degree. He previously studied with John Liberatore at the University of Notre Dame, where he double majored in cello performance and film studies. As a pianist, Alex arranged and played for Arturo Sandoval's Christmas album, performing with him at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018. He attended the 2019 BANFF International Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music, a program helmed by Vijay Iyer and Tyshawn Sorey and is the pianist of the USC Jazz Honors Combo.. As a cellist, Alex serves as principal of American Youth Symphony, and has joined the New York String Orchestra Seminar for their Christmas concerts at Carnegie Hall. He has also appeared on NPR's "From the Top". He has studied with Katinka Kleijn (CSO) and during an exchange in London, Richard Lester (Royal College of Music).

Perfil

Alex Mansour

Películas

Swept Under
Music
After receiving a housewarming rug from his sister, a Cambodian adoptee discovers a dark history hidden underneath its surface.
We Are Like Waves
Music
An intimate look into how surfing changes Sanu’s life, documenting the struggles and breakthroughs of becoming one of the first female Sri Lankan surfers.
Kurt Vonnengut. A través del tiempo
Original Music Composer
A documentary 33 years in the making, director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archives to create the first film featuring the revolutionary late writer.
You Missed a Spot
Music
In a world where every single person is a clown, a mime escapes a cabin massacre and must find his voice to save the girl of his dreams.
Cutioner.exe
Music
When searching for a human connection in an AI-dominated world, a lonely tech worker will go to any cost to find companionship.
Hesburgh
Music
He counseled presidents and popes, served on corporate boards and infuriated Richard Nixon. He was one of the only friends to whom Ann Landers turned for advice. During his 35 years as president of the University of Notre Dame, Theodore Hesburgh became one of the most influential and inspiring people of the 20th century.
Providence
Music
A young woman with mystical abilities faces a fatal test when she invites love into her life.