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In 2009 he was inducted into Broadway’s Theatre Hall of Fame. He holds 11 Tony and 13 Drama Desk nominations. Previously holding the Emmy, Grammy and Academy Awards, in 1997 he was awarded the first Tony ever given for orchestration for Titanic, elevating him to “EGOT” status one of the very few persons to hold all four major awards. He has also composed extensively for voice, both solo and chorus. In recent years he has returned to serious composition, premiering his Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, Cheever Country suite for orchestra and Serenade For Strings. In 2002 he conducted Company at the Kennedy Center Sondheim Celebration, Washington, D.C. He has also served as arranger/ conductor of recordings for such artists as Bernadette Peters, Bette Midler, Judy Collins, Itzhak Perlman, Placido Domingo, Neil Diamond, Kate Bush, Barbra Streisand and Paul McCartney. Other film work includes Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, A Little Night Music, and The Fantasticks.

He has composed and conducted film scores for Mike Nichols (The Birdcage), Franco Zeffirelli (Endless Love), and Sidney Lumet (Find Me Guilty), as well as for such TV classics as Murder, She Wrote and Columbo. (He has orchestrated nearly all of Sondheim’s musicals.) Notable shows include Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, A Chorus Line, Sweeney Todd, Nine, Into The Woods, Passion, The Color Purple, Road Show, and A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder, plus the recent revivals of Carousel and West Side Story. His first major credit as an orchestrator was Promises, Promises (1968), which led to a long series of other Broadway musicals, notably those of Stephen Sondheim.

BIOGRAPHIES: Jonathan TunickĪ native New Yorker, Jonathan Tunick grew up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and attended the High School of Music and Art, Bard College (AB 1958) and Juilliard (MS 1960), where he studied composition under Vittorio Giannini. Moderated by composer, arranger, conductor Larry Blank joined by honored guest Mark Eden Horowitz (Tunick biographer and Senior Music Specialist for the Library of Congress). Long regarded as Broadway’s preeminent orchestrator, Jonathan Tunick’s credits extend beyond his legendary orchestrations of Stephen Sondheim's shows: as a composer he has written extensively for film, television and the concert hall, and has the rare distinction of “EGOT” status, holding all four major entertainment awards.Īn informal conversation with legendary orchestrator, composer and musical director Jonathan Tunick.