Jonathan Tunick
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- April 19, 1938 (age 88)
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, U.S
Biography
Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021. Tunick has won numerous awards and became the seventh person to win an EGOT in 1997. In film, he has worked mainly as an orchestrator, including for several of Mel Brooks' early films. He composed the scores for films such as Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), Endless Love (1981), The Birdcage (1996), and Find Me Guilty (2006).
Known For
Filmography
Merrily We Roll Along
Movie · Orchestrator
Little Shrew (Snowflake)
Movie · Orchestrator
Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best
Movie · Orchestrator
Simply Sondheim
Movie · Orchestrator
Bombshell in Concert
Movie · Orchestrator
National Theatre Live: Follies
Movie · Orchestrator
Into the Woods
Movie · Orchestrator
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert with the New York Philharmonic
Movie · Orchestrator
Merrily We Roll Along
Movie · Orchestrator
Company
Movie · Orchestrator
Find Me Guilty
Movie · Original Music Composer
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Movie · Orchestrator
A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center
Movie · Orchestrator
Putting It Together
Movie · Orchestrator
Passion
Movie · Orchestrator
Company
Movie · Orchestrator
The Birdcage
Movie · Original Music Composer, Music Arranger
The Last Good Time
Movie · Original Music Composer
Into the Woods
Movie · Orchestrator
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
Movie · Orchestrator
Tattingers
TV · Original Music Composer · 11 eps
You Ruined My Life
Movie · Music
Brotherly Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Amazing Stories
TV · Music · 1 ep
Alice in Wonderland
Movie · Conductor
I Am the Cheese
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Movie · Music
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie · Orchestrator
Endless Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Comedy of Horrors
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fort Apache, the Bronx
Movie · Original Music Composer
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Scenes from the Making of a Musical
Movie · Orchestrator
Blinded by the Light
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Movie · Original Music Composer
Swan Song
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Sorrows of Gin
Movie · Original Music Composer
O Youth and Beauty!
Movie · Music
America 2100
Movie · Original Music Composer
Rendezvous Hotel
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Five Forty-Eight
Movie · Original Music Composer
Flying High
Movie · Music
Pacific Overtures
Movie · Orchestrator
Blazing Saddles
Movie · Orchestrator
Young Frankenstein
Movie · Orchestrator
Tony Awards
TV · Orchestrator · 7 eps