Composers
Stewart Copeland
© Danny Clinch
Born: 1952
Recipient of the Hollywood Film Festival's first Outstanding Music in Film Visionary Award, a Grammy nominee for his 2005 CD "Orchestralli" and a 2003 inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stewart Copeland — the former drummer and founder of The Police — has been responsible for some of the film world's most innovative and groundbreaking scores. His career includes the sale of more than 60 million records worldwide, and numerous awards, including five Grammy awards.
Copeland moved beyond the rock arena in the mid-80s when he returned to his classical roots with creative pursuits in concert and film music. His numerous film scores include Oliver Stone's "Wall Street," the seminal score for the Golden Globe-nominated soundtrack for Francis Ford Coppola's "Rumble Fish," the score for Bruno Barreto's Oscar nominated "Four Days in September" and his Emmy nomination for the Showtime pilot and series "Dead Like Me." His work in television includes contributions to "The Equalizer," "Babylon V," and most recently "Desperate Housewives." The rise, subsequent success and ultimate demise of the Police over an eight year period were all recorded and kept as a video diary in 8mm film by Copeland. That diary became the film "Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out," which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and debuted on the Showtime network.
Copeland's concert works include the ballets “Lear” for the San Francisco Ballet (choreographed by Victoria Morgan) and “Prey” for Ballet Oklahoma, several orchestral works, including Arise Awake for chorus and orchestra for the Brighton Festival, and the operas Holy Blood and Crescent Moon for the Cleveland Opera, Horse Opera for Channel Four and the chamber opera The Cask of Amontillado (after Edgar Allan Poe's timeless tale). Celeste, for violin and piano, was commissioned by and premiered at the 2008 Savannah Music Festival with Daniel Hope, violin. La Jolla Summerfest commissioned Retail Therapy which was premiered as part of a Copeland portrait concert in August 2009. Forthcoming commissions include a concerto for percussion ensemble and orchestra to premiere in 2010.Copeland continues to perform having made his percussion solo debut with the Seattle Symphony in a concert with his own compositions, and tours with groups such as the percussion quartet Ensemble Bash and his 20-piece ensemble Orchestralli, which presents concert arrangements of his original scores.
— October 2009
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