Alan Lazar - composer for more than 30 feature films... -
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Alan is a film composer living in Los Angeles, California.
Recently Alan scored "An American Crime", starring Academy Award nominees Ellen Page, Catherine Keener and James Franco, directed by Tommy O'Haver.
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Alan also recently scored 'Jerusalema', for director Ralph ZIman (CNN clip).
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The first wildlife film Alan has scored, "Swamp Troop" for National Geographic, recently won Best Newcomer award at Jackson Hole, the world's premiere wildlife film festival.
Alan Lazar has written music for more than 30 feature films and TV programs, including festival successes like "Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss", and Emmy award winning "Sex and the City".
His diverse composing projects include work from HBO, Miramax, Columbia Tristar, Time Inc, PBS, National Geographic, Coca Cola and Fox.
Alan writes theme music for e.tv and their 24 hour new network, which recently celebrated their 10th anniversary.
Alan also moonlights as a director.
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Born in South Africa, Alan was a child prodigy who wrote arrangements for and conducted the National Symphony Orchestra.
He enjoyed enormous success with the multiracial group, Mango Groove.
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Alan penned the 1996 South African Song of the Year, "African Dream", also a hit in Europe, recently performed at the inauguration of South Africa's second democratic president.
The song is referred to as the 'unofficial national anthem' by the South African press, and was nominated for 'Song of the Decade'.
Leaving the band in 1994, he completed an MFA at USC Film School as a Fulbright scholar, and won a Cine Eagle award.
Alan is a graduate of Trinity College of Music and the USC School of Cinema Television.
He has degrees in computer science, political studies and film-making.
He works in a digital studio in West Los Angeles, complete with live room.
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