Ilan Eshkeri
“Discovery Of The Year” - World Soundtrack Awards for Layer Cake
“Breakthrough Composer of 2007” - The Film
Music Critics Awards
Early 2009 feature films include Kick Ass; another collaboration with Matthew Vaughn, starring Nicolas Cage and Ninja Assassin directed by James McTeigue for Joel Silver at Warner Bros starring Naomie Harris, Sung Kang, Rick Yune and Rain and Julian Fellowes From Time To Time starring Carice Van Houten, Maggie Smith, Timothy Spall and Pauline Collins for Fragile Films / Lionhead Productions.
His credits include scoring Jean-Marc Vallée's The Young Victoria (starring Emily Blunt, Jim Broadbent, Paul Bettany, Rupert Friend and Miranda Richardson), Nick Moran’s Telstar starring Kevin Spacey and Paramount Pictures Stardust, Matthew Vaughn’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman's fantasy adventure, whose cast includes Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfieffer, Claire Danes, Sir Ian McKellan, Peter O’Toole, Rupert Everett and Ricky Gervais! He also worked with Take That on the end title song "Rule The World" specifically written for the movie.
Ilan’s
relationship with Vaughn began with the box office hit Layer
Cake starring Daniel Craig for which he was later nominated
in the category of “Discovery Of The Year” at the
World Soundtrack Awards..
Ilan also scored the movie Hannibal Rising, based on the novel by Hannibal’s creator Thomas Harris. Peter Webber (Girl With The Pearl Earring) directed and the film stars Gaspard Ulliel as the young ‘Hannibal Lecter’ and Gong Li as ‘Lady Murasaki’, produced by Dino De Laurentiis for The Weinstein Company.
Other
movie credits include Straightheads
directed by Dan Reed and starring Gillian Anderson and The
Virgin Territory directed by David Leland, starring Hayden
Christensen, Mischa Barton and Tim Roth and Strength
& Honour starring Michael Madsen and Richard Chamberlain.
Ilan began his career in 1997 and has worked on many features including The Count Of Monte Cristo, Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, Reign Of Fire, Wallace & Gromit and arranging music for Michael Kamen on Kevin Costner’s Open Range.
Working with Kamen, led to Ilan’s first major compositional role in completing Michael’s posthumous score for the animated adventure Back To Gaya (aka Boo, Zino & The Snurks). With a team of Michael's colleagues and friends, Ilan used existing themes and composed original music to create a detailed symphonic score true to Kamen's style.
Ilan
has also worked with various prestigious songwriters. Most recently he’s
been working with the legendary Annie Lennox
for two months, on her live and exclusive concert at the
Mermaid Theatre, London (25 August 2007) for BBC Radio 2, arranging some
of Annie’s classic songs including Sweet Dreams and Walking On Broken
Glass for 50 piece orchestra and band. He wrote string arrangements for
Badly Drawn Boy’s
songs in Something’s Gotta Give
and has programmed and arranged strings on David
Gilmour’s hit solo album On
An Island.
Ilan is based at North Pole studios in London where he works with Grammy
Award winning Producer Steve McLaughlin.
Steve has produced, recorded and mixed the scores for over 90 major feature
films including the Die Hard
series, the Lethal Weapon
series and the Academy Award nominated scores for Interview
With A Vampire and Michael
Collins. Steve was also the architect and producer of
Badly Drawn Boy’s highly regarded score for Chris and
Paul Weitz ’s About A Boy.
For over 15 years, Steve was the producer of the respected film composer Michael Kamen. Steve produced Kamen’s score for Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves and the soundtrack album went on to sell over 3.5 million copies. Notable films Steve has mixed include Michael Mann’s Heat, Don Juan De Marco, Batman Forever, Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant (Winner of an Annie award for Best Music) and X-Men. Steve won a Grammy in 1996 for his work on Tom Petty’s Wildflowers album. He produced the hit single It’s Probably Me for Sting. Steve has two Golden Reel awards for Best Mixer and four further Golden Reel nominations.
For further information please visit: www.filmmusicproducers.com
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Recording Hannibal Rising at Abbey Road Studios…
Hannibal Rising directed by Peter Webber
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Steve McLaughlin and Ilan Eshkeri
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Steve McLaughlin
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Dino De Laurentiis (Producer) with Ilan
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Ilan Eshkeri (Composer)
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Peter Webber (Director)
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“Discovery Of The Year” - World Soundtrack Awards for Layer Cake
