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John Charles (born 4 November 1940) is a New Zealand film composer, conductor, and orchestrator. He created a number of musical works for the New Zealand cinema of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, including compositions for films such as Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu, The Quiet Earth, A Soldier's Tale or Spooked. [1]
Composer, Director. Overview. Biography. Screenography. Awards. More Information. Photos. John Charles is best-known in New Zealand as one of the country’s first composers to make his mark on film, thanks to his varied and distinctive scores for classics Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth.
Feb 10, 2023 · John Charles has composed distinctive scores for some major New Zealand movies, including Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu, and The Quiet Earth. He’s an arranger, pianist, freelance composer – and was the pianist with BLERTA for a time.
John Charles was best-known in New Zealand as one of the country’s first composers to make his mark on film, thanks to his varied and distinctive scores for classics Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth. He also spent time working in television as a producer and executive.
John Charles. Composer: The Quiet Earth. Born in Wellington in 1940, New Zealand composer John Charles began as an arts degree student at Victoria University of Wellington at 18, but at the same time played regularly with the University Jazz Club.
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Feb 22, 2010 · Here's a suite from the superb score for the 1985 sci-fi thriller, "The Quiet Earth". John Charles is a composer who has otherwise done very little, though he did adapt the unforgettable...
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New Zealand composers have been creating music for locally-made movies since the 1930s, and one of the first composers to really put their mark on a string of hit films with his original music was John Charles.
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