The Screen Music of Trevor Jones

David Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. He has published extensively on film music (especially that of Bernard Herrmann, Trevor Jones and Michael Nyman), the music of Bela Bartok and the traditional music of Ireland. His outputs include volumes on Herrmann's scores for the films Vertigo and The Ghost and Mrs Muir; a major biography of Bartok and a study of the latter's Concerto for Orchestra; and the monograph The Musical Traditions of Northern Ireland and Its Diaspora. He was principal investigator of the AHRC-funded project 'The Professional Career and Output of Trevor Jones'.

Ian Sapiro is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Leeds. His monograph, Scoring the Score, is the first academic study of screen-music orchestration and orchestrators, and he has published on a range of screen-music and musical-theatre subjects. Outputs include a volume on Eshkeri's score for Stardust and publications on John Williams's orchestration, the film adaptations of Les Miserables and Annie, British 'rock operas' and Michael Nyman's Greenaway scores, and he is currently working on a critical edition of the Gershwin musical Girl Crazy. He was co-investigator on the AHRC-funded project 'The Professional Career and Output of Trevor Jones'.

Laura Anderson is an Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow at Maynooth University, where her project 'Disruptive Soundscapes' offers a new view of avant-garde post-war French film sound design by examining its relationship with wider cultural developments. Between 2013 and 2016, Laura was the Post-Doctoral Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project, 'The Professional Career and Output of Trevor Jones' at the University of Leeds. Other projects include publications on Jean Cocteau's engagement with music and sound in film; pre-existing music in Jean-Pierre Melville's Les Enfants terribles; John Williams's score for Angela's Ashes; and Brian Boydell's music for documentary film.