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John Powell is British film score composer born on 18 September 1963, and currently based in Los Angeles.

Powell originally trained as a violinist as a child, before studying at London's Trinity College of Music. He later ventured into jazz and rock music, playing in a soul band "The Fabulistics". On leaving college, he composed music for commercials, which lead to a job as an assistant to the composer Patrick Doyle on several film productions, including Much Ado About Nothing.

In 1995 he co-founded the London-based commercial music house Independently Thinking Music, which produced scores for more than 100 British and French commercials and independent films.

Since moving to the U.S. in 1997, he has become a popular choice for comedy and action film scores, including Robots, The Italian Job, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Shrek, Chicken Run (co-composed with Harry Gregson-Williams), Endurance, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Face/Off.

Powell is one of the best known former members of the Remote Control team of film composers and has a scoring style that incorporates both traditional orchestral and more modern, synthesized elements.

He recently wrote the scores for X-Men: The Last Stand, United 93 and Happy Feet; and is working on the score for The Bourne Ultimatum.

Filmography

2008

• Horton Hears a Who!

2007

• The Bourne Ultimatum (film)

2006

• Ice Age: The Meltdown
• United 93
• X-Men: The Last Stand
• Happy Feet

2005

• Be Cool
• Mr & Mrs Smith
• Robots

2004

• Alfie
• Mr 3000
• The Bourne Supremacy

2003

• Agent Cody Banks
• Gigli
• Paycheck
• Stealing Sinatra
• The Italian Job

2002

• The Bourne Identity
• D-Tox
• Drumline
• Pluto Nash
• Two Weeks Notice

2001

• Evolution
• I Am Sam
• Just Visiting
• Rat Race
• Shrek (with Harry Gregson-Williams)

2000

• Chicken Run (with Harry Gregson-Williams)
• The Road to El Dorado (with Hans Zimmer)

1999

• Chill Factor
• Forces of Nature

1998

• Antz (with Harry Gregson-Williams)
• Endurance
• With Friends Like These…

1997

• Face/Off

1996

• High Incident
• Human Bomb

1994

• The Wild Heels

1990

• Stay Lucky

External links

• The Unofficial John Powell Website
• SoundtrackNet - John Powell Biography

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