Nathan Barr
Nathan Barr (born February 9, 1973; also known as Nate Barr) is an American film and television composer and musician. His television scores include True Blood, The Americans, Carnival Row, and The Great. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2020 for his work on the miniseries Hollywood.
Nathan Barr
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- Born
- 1973. · New York City.
- Nationality
- United States.
- Occupation
- composer, cellist and musician.
- Fields
- film score and music.
- Education
- Juilliard School and Skidmore College.
- Languages
- English.
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Nathan Barr (born February 9, 1973; also known as Nate Barr) is an American film and television composer and musician. His television scores include True Blood, The Americans, Carnival Row, and The Great. He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music in 2020 for his work on the miniseries Hollywood.
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Early life
Early life
Barr started studying music in Tokyo, Japan at the age of four. He studied cello and English literature at Skidmore College.
Career
Career
In 1996, Barr moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in composing film and television scores. One of his first jobs was working under the tutelage of Hans Zimmer on the films As Good as It Gets and The Prince of Egypt. After 8 months with Zimmer, Barr landed an agent and branched out on his own. Since then, Barr has scored a large array of feature films and TV series, including all episodes of HBO's series True Blood. In 2009, Barr co-wrote and produced a song with Pete Townshend for FX's The Americans called "It Must Be Done" and in 2005 Barr hired Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top to play guitar on his score for The Dukes Of Hazzard.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q111777: Nathan Barr
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- “Nathan Barr”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Nathan Barr, The Music of Film, 2022
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Awards
2010 BMI Award for Original Score for True Blood Season 2 (HBO) 2009 Hollywood Media in Music Award for Best Score for True Blood (HBO) 2009 BMI Award for Original Score for True Blood (HBO) 2006 BMI Award for Music for Film: The Dukes of Hazzard
Nathan Barr and Alan Ball working on True Blood season 2
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- 1.Sobol, Gianna. Q&A with Composer Nathan Barr. Inside True Blood Blog.
- 2.BMI. 2010 BMI Film/TV Awards Winners. Broadcast Music Incorporated.
- 3.BMI. BMI Film & Television Awards Tout Composers of Year's Top Film, Television, & Cable Music. Broadcast Music Incorporated.
- 4.BMI. 2006 BMI Film & Television Awards.
- 5.Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Nathan W. Barr. Emmys.com.
- 6.Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Nathan Barr. Emmys.com.
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