Epic Movies is a powerful and epic collection of cinematic audio-snapshots. Reach dramatic peaks on an intense journey of orchestral soundscapes. Climb musical mountains with driving percussion and dark, dramatic choral scores. Behold the immense builds that relentlessly rise to huge climactic endings. Epic Movies is an action-packed, dark choral orchestral soundtrack with huge impact-driven endings.

 

CONTRIBUTING COMPOSERS:

------Jane Cornish-----

Jane Antonia Cornish is a British Academy Award-winning composer. She has written the scores for numerous films, including the 2011 drama Fireflies in the Garden, starring Julia Roberts, Ryan Reynolds and Willem Dafoe, Highland Park starring Danny Glover, and Solstice, a thriller directed by the Blair Witch Project’s Dan Myrick. Jane has also worked extensively in Hollywood as an orchestrator. Her credits include Kung Fu Panda, Horton Hears a Who! and Hancock.

As well as the British Academy Award garnered for her soundtrack to Jim Henson’s Five Children and It, Jane was nominated for Breakthrough Composer 2007 by the International Film Music Critics Association for her score to Island of Lost Souls. The film also received a Danish Academy Award nomination and a Movie Music UK Award. In 2005 Jane was honoured by the UK Film Council with a Breakthrough Brit in Hollywood award.

Jane’s concert works include her Symphony, which was awarded a Special Distinction by the ASCAP Foundation’s Rudolph Nissim Prize jury. Her piano trio Duende premiered at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York in 2010. The piece was commissioned by the Lee Trio, who have been described by Strad magazine as ‘…one of the premiere chamber ensembles on the international stage’. Jane was also Composer-in-Residence at the Chelsea Music Festival.

At the age of 17, Jane was a finalist in the BBC Young Composer of the Year competition. She was made a Major Scholar while studying at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she received its Composition Prize and was a recipient of the Associated Board’s Most Outstanding Scholar of the Year award. She went on to complete her postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Music, London. Jane now lives in Los Angeles.

------Daniel Heath------

Having worked on The Fashion Show, Launch My Line, Top Chef Masters, Kell on Earth, Real Housewives of Orange County and Just Deserts, Daniel Heath has been immersed in creating many different styles of music.

From DJing raves to playing classical piano recitals while growing up, Daniel went to Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied Composition and Film Scoring. Immediately afterwards he landed a job in Los Angeles assisting Hans Zimmer at Remote Control Productions. While there he was part of the music team for Pirates of the Caribbean, The Holiday and The Da Vinci Code. He was also introduced to Blake Neely and started to do additional music and sound design for many of Blake’s projects, including The Mentalist, Traveler and Elvis and Anabelle.

Daniel composed the music for Guinness’s 250th-year-anniversary ad campaign. Recent advertising credits include MF Global, Hewlett-Packard, Participant Media Logo and Fairy.

Daniel also recently worked with rising star, Lana del Rey, and co-wrote her song "Blue Jeans."

 

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