John Powell (movie composer)

John Powell (born September 18 1967) is a British American best known for his movie scores. He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over 70 feature films.

Influences

Powell stated composers such as John Williams, Joel McNeely, J.A.C. Redford, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Henry Mancini, Alfred Newman, Alan Menken, Bruce Broughton, Mychael Danna, Howard Shore, Michael Kamen, James Newton Howard, Buddy Baker, Ennio Morricone, Maurice Jarre, Lalo Schifrin, David Newman, Alexandre Desplat, Hans Zimmer, Trevor Jones, Stephen James Taylor, Oliver Wallace, George Bruns, Randy Edelman, Max Steiner, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Johan Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Joe Hisaishi, Thomas Newman, Richard Harvey, Mark Watters, Nino Rota, Basil Poledouris, Robert Folk, Alex North, Leonard Bernstein, Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Randy Newman, Alan Silvestri and James Horner as influences.