Carmen Helena Téllez is a Venezuelan-American music conductor, "“a quiet force behind contemporary music in the United States today.” (Sequenza 21) Since the beginning of her professional career, she has concentrated in the relationship of music with other arts through her performances of contemporary works for chorus, orchestra and new opera in the United States, Europe, Israel and Latin America. After her tenure as Music Director of the National Chorus of Spain, …

Leopold Stokowski (born Antoni Stanisław Bolesławowicz was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s "Fantasia".

Walter Scharf (1 August 1910 - 24 February 2003) was an American film composer. Born in New York, he was the son of Yiddish theatre comic Bessie Zwerling. While in his 20s, he was one of the orchestrators for George Gershwin's Broadway musical "Girl Crazy", became singer Helen Morgan's accompanist, and later worked as pianist and arranger for singer Rudy Vallee. He began working in Hollywood in 1933, arranging for Al Jolson at Warner Bros., …

Alexandre Desplat (born August 23, 1961 in Paris, France) is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe Award-winning film composer. He most recently scored the music for the movie "Firewall", a primarily digital, synthesized soundtrack. Other scores include "The Luzhin Defence", "Girl with a Pearl Earring", "Syriana", "Birth", "Casanova" and "The Painted Veil", for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.

Dominic Frontiere (born June 17, 1931) is an American composer, arranger, and jazz accordionist. He is known for composing the theme to the television series "The Outer Limits".

Dario Marianelli is an Italian film composer born in Pisa, Italy. He has composed the soundtracks for "The Brothers Grimm" (2005) and "Pride & Prejudice". He received an Oscar nomination for Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score for "Pride & Prejudice".

Irwin Kostal (October 1, 1911-November 23, 1994) was an Academy Award winning musical arranger of films.

Born February 1929, Jerry Goldsmith studied piano with Jakob Gimpel and composition, theory, and counterpoint with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He also attended classes in film composition given by Miklós Rózsa at the Univeristy of Southern California. In 1950, he was employed as a clerk typist in the music department at CBS. There, he was given his first embryonic assignments as a composer for radio shows such as "Romance" and "CBS Radio Workshop." He wrote one score a week for...

Brother of composer Alfred Newman; 3 daughters: producer Carroll Newman, Deborah Sharpe and dancer Jenifer Newman; nephews: composer/songwriter Randy Newman, composer Thomas Newman & composer David Newman; grandson: composer Joey Newman, grand daughters: actresses Sarah Maria Newman and Jessica Frank; son-in-law: actor Gary Frank.

Came to England in 1946 and studied conducting

Has re-recorded many John Barry film scores, including 'Zulu', Walkabout', 'Raise The Titanic', 'The Lion In Winter', 'Robin & Marian' & 'The Last Valley'.

Studied under "Karel Ancert", and has been head of the Film Symphony Orchestra in Prague since 1956.