Christopher Young
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Christopher Young (b. 1957) is an award-winning composer of music for film and television.Born on 28th April 1957 in Redbank, New Jersey, Young graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music, and then did postgraduate work at North Texas State University.
In 1980 he moved to Los Angeles. A jazz drummer at first, hearing some of Bernard Herrmann's works convinced him to be a film composer. At the UCLA Film School, he studied under David Raksin.He composed the scores to more than seventy films, including Hellraiser, Swordfish, The Shipping News, and Species.
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