Frank Ilfman
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Frank Ilfman and wife Susana at the Sitges Fantastic Film Festival 2014
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| Birth name | Haim Frank Ilfman |
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18 March 1970 Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Occupation(s) | Film composer |
| Website | frankilfman.com |
Frank Haim Ilfman (born March 18, 1970) is an Israeli/ German composer based in London and Los Angeles.
He studied trombone and piano at the Jaffa Conservatorium of Music in Tel Aviv and as a young teenager was playing lead trombone with the Tel Aviv Dixieland Band. The young composer became frustrated and bored with the structured methods of the Conservatorium and was eventually asked to leave for playing truant – Ilfman wanted to be more imaginative with how he created music, so went it alone. In 1984, during a visit to Berlin, Ilfman got introduced to German composer Klaus Doldinger, who happened to be scoring The NeverEnding Story at that time. A visit to the film’s recording sessions made Ilfman fall deeper in love with the art of film music and commit fully to his ambition. He worked on his first television production, when he was just 17 years old, with composer Jan Hammer on the acclaimed television series The Chancer, starring Clive Owen, and since then has scored more than forty films and numerous television shows.
Among his many talents is his ability to diagnose how music can best contribute to a film; from brooding melancholy to playful joviality, his work covers a wide spectrum of genres and has gained him much respect in the field.
Frank Ifman’s most known scores include the award-winning films Big Bad Wolves and Cupcakes, with scores performed by The London Metropolitan Orchestra at the legendary Air Studios.
He has also scored: May I Kill U?, a dark comedy, directed by BAFTA award winner Stuart Urban and starring Kevin Bishop; Mercenaries, directed by Paris Leonti, starring Robert Fucilla and Billy Zane; the three-part documentaries The Iraq War and Putin, Russia and the West for BBC and the internationally acclaimed heartbreaking film Bitter Seeds, directed by Micha Peled.
On 28 January 2014, the album for the Big Bad Wolves Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released by MovieMediaScores / Kronos Records.
Frank Ilfman's latest works includes "Ghost Stories" directed by Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman and starring Martin Freeman, Alex Lawther and Andy Nyman. "68 Kill" directed by Trent Haaga and starring Matthew Gray Gubler , AnnaLynne McCord; the danish thriller "Robin " and the film adaptation of the book " The Etruscan Smile", directed by Oscar nominated filmmakers Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis and produced by 6 time Oscar winner Artur Cohn. It stars actor Brian Cox, Thora Birch, JJ Feild, Treat Williams, Rosanna Arquette and Peter Coyote. The film's score was recorded at Air Studios in London and was performed by the The London Metropolitan Orchestra.
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