Jonathan Tunick
Born: 1938-04-19 in New York, New York, U.S
Known For: Sound
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).
Filmography
2025
- Merrily We Roll Along ... (Orchestrator)
- Little Shrew (Snowflake) ... (Orchestrator)
2023
- Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best ... (Orchestrator)
2021
- Simply Sondheim ... (Orchestrator)
2020
- Bombshell in Concert with "Smash" Reunion ... (Orchestrator)
2017
- National Theatre Live: Follies ... (Orchestrator)
2014
- Into the Woods ... (Orchestrator)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ... (Orchestrator)
2013
- Merrily We Roll Along ... (Orchestrator)
2011
- Company ... (Orchestrator)
2006
- Find Me Guilty ... (Original Music Composer)
2004
- Elaine Stritch at Liberty ... (Orchestrator)
2002
- A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center ... (Orchestrator)
2001
- Putting It Together ... (Orchestrator)
1996
- The Birdcage ... (Original Music Composer)
- Passion ... (Orchestrator)
- Company ... (Orchestrator)
1994
- The Last Good Time ... (Original Music Composer)
1991
- Into the Woods ... (Orchestrator)
1990
- New York City Opera: A Little Night Music ... (Orchestrator)
1988
- Tattingers ... (Original Music Composer)
1987
- You Ruined My Life ... (Music)
1985
- Amazing Stories ... (Music)
- Brotherly Love ... (Original Music Composer)
1983
- Alice in Wonderland ... (Conductor)
- I Am The Cheese ... (Original Music Composer)
1982
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street ... (Orchestrator)
- The Shady Hill Kidnapping ... (Music)
1981
- Endless Love ... (Original Music Composer)
- Fort Apache, the Bronx ... (Original Music Composer)
- Comedy of Horrors ... (Original Music Composer)
1980
- Swan Song ... (Original Music Composer)
- Blinded by the Light ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Jilting of Granny Weatherall ... (Original Music Composer)
- Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical ... (Orchestrator)
1979
- America 2100 ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Sorrows of Gin ... (Original Music Composer)
- The Five Forty-Eight ... (Music)
- O Youth and Beauty! ... (Music)
- Rendezvous Hotel ... (Original Music Composer)
1978
- Flying High ... (Music)
1977
- A Little Night Music as Conductor
1976
- Pacific Overtures ... (Orchestrator)
1974
- Blazing Saddles ... (Orchestrator)
- Young Frankenstein ... (Orchestrator)
1956
- Tony Awards ... (Orchestrator)