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Alexander Paul Rudd (born 1981) is an English award-winning composer, songwriter and conductor working in film, television, theatre and the concert hall. At the age of 16, Rudd won the National Young Composer of the Year Award. He is a Fulbright Scholar〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet our Fulbrighters: Alexander Rudd )〕 and studied at Trinity College of Music and the University of Southern California.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television )〕 In 2009, Rudd received a UK Film Council Award,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=2009 Fulbright Scholars Announced )〕 enabling him to work and study in Los Angeles. His mentor is American composer and songwriter Randy Newman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Unknown Production Notes )〕 ==Early life== He was a student at Our Lady’s High School, Fulwood, Preston – although he also spent two years at Stonyhurst College, a Jesuit Catholic boarding school in the north of England. From the age of sixteen he worked as a pianist and singer entertainer in bars and clubs working all over the UK. He studied composition at Trinity College of Music with Alwynne Pritchard who introduced him to the works of contemporary composers such as Xenakis, Ligeti, Schoenberg and Messiaen. In the evenings he worked as the resident Jazz singer and pianist at The Dorchester, Claridges〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Piano Vocalists )〕 and The Savoy in London. He also taught the piano and worked as a Musical Director at James Allen Girls School in Dulwich. During this time he met composer Howard Blake who encouraged him to pursue a career as a film composer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alexander Rudd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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