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Jonathan Tunick

Known For
Sound

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
April 19, 1938 (88 years old)

Place of Birth
New York, New York, U.S

Jonathan Tunick

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

Sound

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

Acting

1977A Little Night Musicas Conductor