Geoff Zanelli

Geoff Zanelli

Geoff Zanelli (born September 28 1974) is an Emmy winning composer working primarily in the medium of film music. His early career was notable for scoring additional music on roughly 30 film scores written by Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, Klaus Badelt and Steve Jablonsky including each film in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy, "The Last Samurai", "Pearl Harbor", "Equilibrium" and "Hannibal". He has since moved on to more solo work, including his 2006 Emmy-winning score for Steven Spielberg's miniseries "Into The West", as well as the films "Secret Window", "House of D", "Disturbia", "Delgo", "Hitman", "Outlander", and "Ghost Town".

He is from Westminster, California, is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, currently writes at Hans Zimmer's Remote Control Productions, and has worked with filmmakers including Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Jerry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Edward Zwick, David Koepp and David Duchovny.

Aside from film and television scores, Zanelli has also worked with recording artists, writing string arrangements for the bands Mest, Story of the Year, and for Robbie Williams. He has also been credited as a guitarist/bassist/synthsist on the song "I'm Not Dead" from recording artist P!nk.

Biography

Zanelli began his musical career as a guitar player for numerous bands in California. While attending the prestigious Berklee College of Music on scholarship, Zanelli dual majored in Film Scoring and Music Production/Engineering. He was the recipient of both the Doug Timm Award in recognition of his film scoring work and the Music Production and Engineering Scholar Award prior to graduating Magna Cum Laude.

Zanelli then met Academy Award-winning film composer Hans Zimmer in 1994 and moved to Los Angeles to join Zimmer’s studio team. He became the assistant engineer on the debut album from Goldfinger, working with Grammy Award-winning producer Jay Rifkin for Media Ventures affiliate Mojo Records. His engineering background also proved valuable as an assistant engineer on Hans Zimmer's Academy Award-nominated score for "The Preacher's Wife".

Zanelli's experience led to working with British composer John Powell on his first Hollywood feature, "Face/Off", directed by John Woo. Throughout the following years, Zanelli was called on as a composer and arranger for Powell on many feature films, including "The Prince of Egypt" and "Forces of Nature". He later teamed with Harry Gregson-Williams and Powell to write additional music for "Antz" and "Chicken Run". This led to more collaborations, this time with Hans Zimmer on "Hannibal", the Golden Globe-nominated scores for "Pearl Harbor" and "The Last Samurai" and all three films in the "Pirates Of The Caribbean" trilogy.

He has since moved on to more solo work, scoring David Duchovny's feature directorial debut "House Of D", David Koepp’s "Secret Window" and Steven Spielberg's Golden Globe Nominated "Into The West" for Dreamworks/TNT, which also received 16 Emmy nominations. Zanelli won an Emmy for his score for "Into The West", one of two Emmy wins for the show.

Filmography (as principal composer)

2009
* "Game"2008
* "Ghost Town"
* "Outlander"
* "Delgo"2007
* "Hitman"
* "Disturbia"2005
* "Into the West" (miniseries) -- Emmy Award winning score2004
* "House of D"
* "Secret Window"2001
* "Feast"

External links

* [http://imdb.com/name/nm0952944/ Geoff Zanelli's imdb.com entry]
* [http://hans-zimmer.com/ Hans Zimmer fansite]
* [http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2006/082106-1.html?IsArchive=082106-1/ Article about Zanelli's Emmy win for "Into The West"]
* [http://soundtrack.net/news/article/?id=895 Soundtrack.net's coverage of the recording of Zanelli's score for Disturbia]


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