Class Task- Alan Silvestri

Alan Silvestri:

In over thirty years as a film composer, Alan Silvestri has blazed an innovative trail with his exciting and melodic scores, winning the applause of Hollywood and movie audiences the world over. Born in Manhattan in 1950, Alan was first drawn to music at an early age. Beginning as a drummer, his love for instruments quickly grew to include the bassoon, clarinet, saxophone and guitar. Writing his own music and forming numerous bands during his early school days, his musical life would lead him to the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he was to enroll as a composition major.

Alan wrote the music for Back To the Future, the films success helped propel his career as afterwards he went on to write hundreds of scores for successful films including Forrest Gump (for which he received an academy award nomination for best score). He often composes for films by director Robert Zemeckis.




Trivia

Lives in Carmel, Northern California.

Attended Berklee College of Music in Boston.
He was originally hired to score Mission: Impossible (1996) and had written roughly twenty-three minutes of music before he was replaced by Danny Elfman. Bootleg copies of his Mission: Impossible (1996) score are in circulation.
During the late 60s Silvestri went on the road as a guitarist with the band Wayne Cochran and the CC Riders.
Was nominated for Film Composer of the Year in 2004 by the International Film Music Critics Association (IFMCA).