Christopher Gunning

Christopher Gunning

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

História

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.

Perfil

Christopher Gunning

Filmes

Grace de Mônaco
Grace de Mônaco
Music
O casamento de Grace Kelly (Nicole Kidman) e o príncipe Rainier III (Tim Roth) foi considerado um conto de fadas na vida real quando aconteceu, em 1956. Entretanto, cinco anos mais tarde e com dois filhos, a verdade é que Grace está insatisfeita com a vida no palácio e o distanciamento do marido. A chance de novamente sentir-se útil surge quando seu velho amigo, o diretor Alfred Hitchcock (Roger Ashton-Griffiths), a convida para retornar ao cinema como protagonista de seu próximo filme: "Marnie - Confissões de uma Ladra". O problema é que Rainier é terminantemente contra e, ainda por cima, está envolvido com uma ameaça vinda do presidente francês Charles de Gaule (André Penvern): caso Mônaco não pague impostos à França e acabe com o paraíso fiscal existente, o principado será invadido em seis meses. Em meio às inevitáveis tensões, Grace e Rainier buscam resolver seus problemas tentando evitar que eles causem o divórcio.
Piaf: Um Hino ao Amor
Piaf: Um Hino ao Amor
Orchestra conductor
A vida de Edith Piaf foi sempre uma batalha. Abandonada pela mãe, foi criada pela avó, dona de um bordel na Normandia. Dos 3 aos 7 anos de idade fica cega, recuperando-se milagrosamente. Mais tarde vive com o pai alcoólatra, a quem abandona aos 15 anos para cantar nas ruas de Paris. Em 1935 é descoberta por um dono de boate e neste mesmo ano grava seu primeiro disco. A vida sofrida é coroada com o sucesso internacional. Fama, dinheiro, amizades, mas também a constante vigilância da opinião pública.
Piaf: Um Hino ao Amor
Piaf: Um Hino ao Amor
Original Music Composer
A vida de Edith Piaf foi sempre uma batalha. Abandonada pela mãe, foi criada pela avó, dona de um bordel na Normandia. Dos 3 aos 7 anos de idade fica cega, recuperando-se milagrosamente. Mais tarde vive com o pai alcoólatra, a quem abandona aos 15 anos para cantar nas ruas de Paris. Em 1935 é descoberta por um dono de boate e neste mesmo ano grava seu primeiro disco. A vida sofrida é coroada com o sucesso internacional. Fama, dinheiro, amizades, mas também a constante vigilância da opinião pública.
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.
À Luz do Fogo
À Luz do Fogo
Original Music Composer
No século 19, Elisabeth Laurier se torna a governanta da filha que ela deu sete anos antes a Charles Godwin, proprietário e aristocrata inglês.
Sob Suspeita
Sob Suspeita
Original Music Composer
In the late 1950s, British police officer Tony Aaron resigns from the force after sleeping with Hazel, wife of the man whose house he was supposed to guard. In his new job as a fake private investigator, he helps couples get divorces by photographing Hazel having "affairs" with the husband. When she is murdered during a job, Tony begins having an affair with the dead man's mistress, Angeline, while trying to prove his innocence.
When the Whales Came
When the Whales Came
Music
A pair of children befriend an eccentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the whales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.
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
No início de 1939 Sir Robert Hunter (Peter O'Toole) mirou em Adolf Hitler (Michael Sheard) com um rifle de alta potência, mas o tiro errou o alvo. Capturado e torturado pela Gestapo e deixado para morrer, Sir Robert faz o caminho de volta para a Inglaterra, onde descobre que a Gestapo o seguiu. Sabendo que seu governo o entregaria às autoridades alemãs, Sir Robert vai à clandestinidade em sua batalha contra seus perseguidores. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
In Celebration
In Celebration
Music
In a Yorkshire mining town, three educated brothers return to their blue-collar home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their parents, but dark secrets come to the fore.
Man About the House
Man About the House
Original Music Composer
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings.Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are, finally winning the day
Ooh... You Are Awful
Ooh... You Are Awful
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.....
As Mãos do Estripador
As Mãos do Estripador
Original Music Composer
Uma série de homicídios semelhantes aos do Estripador de Whitechapel são cometidos. O Dr.Pritchard, através das suas experiências com psicanálise, descobre uma violência mortal numa das suas pacientes. Enquanto explora a sua mente ele descobre que Anna é possuída pelo espírito do seu pai morto. Mas a revelação mais arrepiante é a identidade do seu pai. O próprio Jack o Estripador.
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.