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Composer (Music Score) Born: New York, NY Biography:Versatile musician "Mark Isham" is both a Grammy award-winning recording artist and one of the most noteworthy film composers of the 1980s and beyond. Born in New York to a violinist and a music teacher, Isham studied trumpet, violin, and piano as a child, and began his professional career as a classical and jazz trumpeter in California. Adding synthesizers to his repertoire, he worked as a jazz, rock, and New Age musician throughout the 1980s and 1990s, winning a Grammy award for his 1990 CD Mark Isham.
Isham began his parallel career as a film composer in the 1980s, providing the scores for the Arctic adventure "Never Cry Wolf" (1983) and the "Mel Gibson"-"Diane Keaton" period romance "Mrs. Soffel" (1984). Forging a fruitful collaboration with iconoclastic director "Alan Rudolph", Isham scored "Trouble in Mind" (1985), "Mortal Thoughts" (1991), "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle" (1994),... Full Biography
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