Marcelo Zarvos
Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos is a Brazilian pianist and film composer.
Also recorded as Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos
Marcelo Zarvos
- Name
- Marcelo Zarvos
- Birth Name
- Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos
- Birthplace
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Occupation
- Composer, pianist
- Full name
- Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos.
- Born
- 1969. · São Paulo.
- Nationality
- Brazil.
- Fields
- music, film score, jazz and piano performance.
- Education
- Berklee College of Music.
- Languages
- Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and English.
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Key facts
• Name — Marcelo Zarvos • Birth Name — Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos • Birthplace — São Paulo, Brazil • Occupation — Composer, pianist • Genre — Film score, soundtrack, jazz, ambient, new-age, electronic • Instruments — Piano, keyboards Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos is a Brazilian pianist and film composer.
Early life
Early life
Zarvos was born in São Paulo. He began in classical music in his teens and studied at the Berklee College of Music. He later attended the California Institute of the Arts, and graduated with a BFA in Music in 1992.
Career
Career
He is known for his jazz compositions and had success with the album Dualism accompanied by saxophonist Peter Epstein. He has done several film scores including Kissing Jessica Stein, The Door in the Floor, Boynton Beach Club, The Air I Breathe, Sin Nombre, Beastly, The Beaver, Won't Back Down, The Words, American Ultra, The Choice, Wonder, A Journal for Jordan, Emancipation, Flamin' Hot, Big George Foreman, May December and KPop Demon Hunters. His music has been recorded a number of times by the string quartet Ethel.
Personal life
Personal life
He is married to Janel Moloney, and they have two children.
Television series
Television series
• Year — Title — Notes • 2009 — 30 for 30 — Episode: The Band That Wouldn't Die • 2010–2013 — The Big C — 39 episodes • 2013–2020 — Ray Donovan — 82 episodes • 2014 — Extant — 13 episodes • 2014 — The Affair — 53 episodes • 2015–2017 — Z: The Beginning of Everything — 10 episodes • One Mississippi — 12 episodes • 2019 — The Loudest Voice — 7 episodes • 2020 — FreeRayshawn — 15 episodes
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Marcelo Zarvos was recorded at birth as Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos. The authorities additionally record the heading Marcelo Uchoa Zarvos. His recorded languages were Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese and English. He married Janel Moloney.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1969
Marcelo Zarvos born at São Paulo.
Theatrical films
Theatrical films
• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 2000 — Tully — Hilary Birmingham • 2001 — Kissing Jessica Stein — Charles Herman-Wurmfeld • The Buffalo War — Matthew Testa • 2002 — 2wks, 1yr — Chris McKay • Xingu: Land of No Shame — Michael Engel • 2003 — The Mudge Boy — Michael Burke • 2004 — The Door in the Floor — Tod Williams • 2005 — Strangers with Candy — Paul Dinello • Our Brand Is Crisis — Rachel Boynton • Four Lane Highway — Dylan McCormick • Escape Artists — Michael Laurence • Boynton Beach Club — Susan Seidelman • 2006 — The Architect — Matt Tauber • Ira & Abby — Robert Cary • Hollywoodland — Allen Coulter • The Good Shepherd — Robert De Niro — Composed with Bruce Fowler • 2007 — You Kill Me — John Dahl • The Air I Breathe — Jieho Lee • Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot — Tod Harrison Williams • 2008 — What Just Happened — Barry Levinson • Winged Creatures — Rowan Woods • New York, I Love You — Joshua Marston — Joshua Marston segment • Last Stop 174 — Bruno Barreto • 2009 — Brooklyn's Finest — Antoine Fuqua • Sin Nombre — Cary Joji Fukunaga • 2010 — Please Give — Nicole Holofcener • Remember Me — Allen Coulter • 2011 — Beastly — Daniel Barnz • The Beaver — Jodie Foster • Friends with Kids — Jennifer Westfeldt • 2012 — The Words — Brian Klugman • The Bay — Barry Levinson • Won't Back Down — Daniel Barnz • 2013 — Reaching for the Moon — Bruno Barreto • The Hot Flashes — Susan Seidelman • Enough Said — Nicole Holofcener • The Face of Love — Arie Posin • 2014 — Little Accidents — Sara Colangelo • The Humbling — Barry Levinson • Adult Beginners — Ross Katz • 2015 — American Ultra — Nima Nourizadeh • Rock the Kasbah — Barry Levinson • 2016 — Our Kind of Traitor — Susanna White • Cell — Tod Williams • The Choice — Ross Katz • Fences — Denzel Washington • 2017 — Wonder — Stephen Chbosky • 2018 — The Land of Steady Habits — Nicole Holofcener • Mapplethorpe — Ondi Timoner • 2019 — The Best of Enemies — Robin Bissell • Breakthrough — Roxann Dawson • Otherhood — Cindy Chupack • Human Capital — Marc Meyers • Dark Waters — Todd Haynes • 2020 — Penguin Bloom — Glendyn Ivin • 2021 — The Guilty — Antoine Fuqua • A Journal for Jordan — Denzel Washington • 2022 — Deep Water — Adrian Lyne • Emancipation — Antoine Fuqua • 2023 — Flamin' Hot — Eva Longoria • Big George Foreman — George Tillman Jr. • May December — Todd Haynes — Adaptation and re-orchestration of Michel Legrand's score for The Go-Between • The Equalizer 3 — Antoine Fuqua • 2024 — The Front Room — Max Eggers Sam Eggers • 2025 — Nonnas — Stephen Chbosky • KPop Demon Hunters — Chris Appelhans, Maggie Kang — Original songs by Danny Chung, Ido, Vince, Kush, Ejae, Jenna Andrews, Stephen Kirk, Lindgren, Mark Sonnenblick, and Daniel Rojas • 2024 — Spacewoman — Hannah Berryman
Television films
Television films
• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 2009 — Taking Chance — Ross Katz • 2010 — You Don't Know Jack — Barry Levinson • 2011 — Too Big to Fail — Curtis Hanson • 2013 — Phil Spector — David Mamet • 2019 — What's My Name: Muhammad Ali — Antoine Fuqua • 2022 — Ray Donovan: The Movie — David Hollander
Short films
Short films
• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 1998 — Uma História de Futebol — Paulo Machline • 2000 — The Happy Prince — * Garcia Rivas Alba * Alba Enid Garcia • 2002 — Abbie Down East — Ellen-Alinda Verhoeff • Baseado em Estórias Reais — Gustavo Moraes • 2003 — La sexta sección — Alex Rivera • 2005 — The Foster Son — Ellen-Alinda Verhoeff • 2006 — Cosmic Collisions — Carter Emmart • 2008 — The Receiver — Anne Devereux • 2013 — Presque pareil — Élisabeth Desbiens
Primary material
Documents and archives
Institutional database
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1338827: Marcelo Zarvos
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reference work
- “Marcelo Zarvos”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Institutional database
Wikidata, structured authority record Q1338827: Marcelo ZarvosWikimedia Foundation
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