Bruce Broughton

Composer - Concerto for Piccolo and Chamber Orchestra Film: Silverado, Tombstone TV: JAG, Tiny Toons

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Bruce Broughton, a composer who works in many styles and eclectic venues, is best known for scores to films such as Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under, The Presidio, Miracle on 34th Street, the Homeward Bound adventures and Harry and The Hendersons, his television themes to JAG, Dinosaurs and Steven Spielberg's Tiny Toon Adventures, TV mini-series (Roughing It, The Blue and Gray), TV movies (Warm Springs, O Pioneers!), as well as countless episodes of TV series such as Dallas, Quincy, First Monday and Hawaii Five-O. He has been nominated for an Oscar, a Grammy and over 20 Emmys, and won the latter award ten times. He has composed music for many of the Disney theme park attractions, and wrote the first orchestral score for a CD-ROM game. Broughton's concert music includes numerous works for orchestra and chamber groups, performed by ensembles such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He is a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a Board member of ASCAP and a past president of The Society of Composers and Lyricists. He has lectured in music composition at UCLA and has taught film composition in the Advanced Film Music Studies program at USC.