News and Updates
Following up on the success of their show last year with rapper Nas, the National Symphony Orchestra and the Kennedy Center have just announced an upcoming show for one night only with Kendrick Lamar and the NSO. I was asked to create new orchestral arrangements for Kendrick's tracks. Show is on October 20th.
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I just realized it has been a long time since I updated anything here. I have good reasons though! Where to start... Firstly, I just realized it has been 10 years since my first session in LA as a conductor and orchestrator. It was a TV show called Invasion. It was a great way to start as I had 22 chances to get it less wrong. I met some amazing musicians and over the years have learnt a lot from them. But how time flies!…
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After many years conducting in the recording studio I am finally being let loose on the concert stage. I will be filling in for my friend Susie Seiter, conducting some dates for the Pokemon Symphonic Evolutions Tour. I will be in Baltimore on July 1 and San Diego for Comicon on July 9. I am currently madly learning the scores, Susie told me in very strong words I was not allowed to just go in and sight read the show. I have recently finished work…
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Tim Davies Big Band Monday May 18, 8pm @ Typhoon, $10, FREE parking. Typhoon 3221 Donald Douglas Loop South (Santa Monica Airport) 310 390 6565
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I am pleased to announce a little career shift. I have always gone to great lengths to be clear that I am NOT a 'film' composer. I do everything but. However, I have also always said I would write my own score one day, just that I would never go out of my way to chase it. It seems that day has almost come. Last year Gustavo Santaolalla asked me to help him with the score to The Book of Life. It was the first…
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It is the 2nd week of the New Year, however I feel like I just finished 2014 yesterday. The last few months of 2014 were intense. I was called to write additional music for a rather famous director. More info once the release is closer in October. I have also been busy orchestrating Revenge and the new Fox show Empire. I just finished orchestrating The Moon and the Sun for Heitor Pereira. Next up I will attempt to finish my big band album before work…
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TD with Gustavo Santaolalla and director Jorge Gutierrez Book of Life is out! I worked with Gustavo Santaolalla on the score. Firstly arranging strings for his and Paul William's awesome songs, then I took those themes, and some more that he gave me (his demos will be on the score album) and arranged them into over an hour of underscore. We used a 90-piece orchestra and lots of guitar, ethnic flute and accordion. I even convinced them to let me record…
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Over the years I have developed a lot of tricks and shortcuts for orchestrating. Here is a screencast where I go from midi file to finished score and you can see my process and how I have tricked out my setup. I am back in the TV world, orchestrating season 4 of Revenge for Fil Eisler. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is out. I orchestrated and conducted the score for Chris Beck.
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I got right of the plane from Australia and jumped into work on The Simpsons Take the Bowl. I took cues and songs from the original TV scores by Alf Clausen and blew them up to full orchestra. It was a lot of fun seeing Alf and Dell Hake's original orchestrations. I also orchestrated a suite of music by Hans Zimmer and several new arrangements by Jim Dooley and of course a few versions of the iconic Danny Elfman theme.
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