Larry Groupé
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Lawrence Nash Groupé |
| Born | February 1957 (age 63–64) |
| Genres | Film score |
| Occupation(s) | Composer |
Lawrence Nash Groupé, born April 1957, best known as Larry Groupé, is an American film score composer who has composed, orchestrated and conducted music for dozens of films and television programs. His most popular works include scores for Rod Lurie's movies The Contender, The Outpost, Nothing But the Truth and Straw Dogs, as well as the ABC television series Commander in Chief, which starred Geena Davis as the United States' first female President, and The Mind of the Married Man for HBO. [1] Groupé has been nominated four times for an Emmy award, and won three. In 2004, he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for the best original score for the ABC TV series Line of Fire.[2] He later won Emmys for the score of the documentary film Jonas Salk: Personally Speaking; for the short subject film Residue, about the US early involvement in Cambodia; and for Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story.[3][4]
In 2001, Groupé composed and orchestrated music in a collaboration with the British progressive rock band Yes for their Magnification album. He also toured with Yes and conducted a 60-piece orchestra in various cities as part of the band's promotional tour for the album. [5]
Groupé is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific, and was the recipient of the ASCAP award for student composers. He received a Masters in Music Composition at the University of California, San Diego where he studied with Tōru Takemitsu, Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, and Pauline Oliveros. He also studied computer generated music at Stanford with John Chowning and Leland Smith. [6]
Groupé has composed, conducted and produced over eighty CD recordings, including two well known epic music genre CD’s, Excelsius and Dream Cinema, for Immediate Music's record label, Imperativa Records.[7][8]
His music has been performed by a number of symphony orchestras, including Water Unfolding, a fantasy for orchestra commissioned by the San Diego Symphony, Menagerie, a suite for solo organ, commissioned by the Spreckels Organ Society for its 85th birthday, and Prometheus Unwound, a string quartet celebrating the discoveries made by the Palomar Observatory.[9][10][11]
Groupé is co-founder, alongside composer Roger Neill, of the Palomar Film Music Workshop, which has convened yearly in the Pauma Valley in San Diego County, California since 2015.[12][13]
Beginning in the spring of 2016, Groupé became an associate professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he devised and directs the Music Scoring for Visual Media program.[14][15]
References[]
- ^ "IMDB".
- ^ "Primetime Emmys, 2004".
- ^ "IMDB".
- ^ "Monopolydocumentary.com".
- ^ "San Diego Reader". retrieved 2021-06-11
- ^ "Indiana University, Faculty web page".
- ^ "Dream Cinema, Imperativa Records".
- ^ "Excelsius, Imperativa Records".
- ^ "Larrygroupe.com".
- ^ "Soundtrack.net".
- ^ "The Daily Press, Composer has sky-high hopes for premiere".
- ^ "Palomar Film Workshop".
- ^ "Larry Groupé to Host Intensive Summer Workshop for Aspiring Composers". www.soundtrack.net. Retrieved 2020-02-14.
- ^ "Indiana University, Faculty web page".
- ^ "Award-winning composer designs music scoring program for Jacobs School". News at IU Bloomington. December 1, 2017. Retrieved June 19, 2021.
External links[]
- Official site
- Larry Groupé at IMDb
- Soundtrack Collector, Larry Groupé discography
- Jacobs School of Music, Music Scoring for Visual Media Program
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