Christopher Young, Honorary President of Soncinemad 2007
03/27/2007 Christopher Young will be the Honorary President of this year's Soncinemad Film Music Festival in Madrid.  Soncinemad 2007’s events will begin with a very special film music concert tribute to all their guests and with the orchestra performing suites from the Soncinemad 2007 panelists’ best works introduced and led by Christopher Young who will also present some of his music as part of an Extraordinary concert the 29th June. Pictures from last year's masterclass with Christopher Young can be found here. For more information about the festival please visit the official website: www.soncinemad.com
 
  Christopher Young on Ghost Rider
02/15/2007 ComicBookMovie.com just interviewed Christopher Young and talked with him about making music for the Ghost Rider soundtrack. Read the interview here.  
 
 

First Listen - Ghost Rider
 01/24/2007 I am pleased to offer an exlusive "First Listen" of Christopher Young's score to Ghost Rider which will be released February 13, 2007 on Varése Sarabande Records. In anticipation of that release you will find sound clips of selected tracks by clicking on the banner above. Enjoy!
 
  A Day With Composer Christopher Young
 10/21/2006 One of the latest webisodes on the production of The Grudge 2 takes you on a detailed tour with Christopher Young of his office and studio during the scoring process of "his latest opus in a long line of horror film music masterpieces" (Varése Sarabande). Check it out at Ghost House Pictures.
 

 

Something The Lord Made - Suite online
 8/25/2006 Once again I am proud to offer the readers of chrisyoung-filmmusic.info an exclusive chance to listen to Christopher Young's score for the HBO movie Something The Lord Made. The 2004 movie starring Alan Rickman, Mos Def and Mary Stuart Masterson was directed by Joseph Sargent. A suite of 3:41 min length is available here.

 

Masterclass in Madrid: Photo essay
 7/18/2006 The first Soncinemad Film Music Festival held in Madrid over the first weekend July was a great success. Jum-packed with two concerts and several seminars by famous composers, one of the highlights was the masterclass by Christopher Young on friday June 30th that I was honoured to announce. During the seminar at the Palacio de Congresos de Madrid Christopher Young talked about his passion for filmmusic, his life and the composition process in general. Besides this he showed the train sequence from Spider-Man 2 that featured his music and highlighted several key moments. He also used the seminar to present his score for Ghost Rider to the audience for the first time by showing the prologue and main titles sequence of the upcoming movie.
On saturday, a CD signing was arranged at the Yelmo Cineplex Ideal, Madrid where fans were able to get their favourite albums autographed by Christopher Young.  A small photo essay can be found here.

 

An Unfinished Life gets a CD-Club release
 6/26/2006 Varèse Sarabande will release Christopher Young's rejected score to An Unfinished Life on July 17, 2006. An Unfinished Life was supossed to be Young's second collaboration with director Lasse Halström after The Shipping News. Due to some editorial changes in the movie, the producers felt that the score should go in a different direction to what was originally recorded so Young's score was replaced in the final moment. Fortunately Varèse Sarabande was able to save that score for the fans of Young's music and will release it in their CD Club series. The CD contains 50 minutes of orchestral music that was recorded in London plus 30 minutes of used and unused themes for solo piano. As that release is limited to 1000 units order it now before it will be sold out.

 

 First time exclusive - Spider-Man 2
 6/13/2006 I am proud to offer the readers of chrisyoung-filmmusic.info an exclusive chance to listen to Christopher Young's contribution to Spider-Man 2 for the first time ever. After much creative differences between Sam Raimi and Danny Elfman during the post-production of the movie, Raimi brought in other composers to complete the unfinished score. One of those composers was Christopher Young who wrote two cues. Clips of the cues called "The Demonstration" and "Runaway Train" are available here. So check them out and enjoy!
 
  New assignments: Ghost Rider & The Grudge 2
 11/21/2005 After Spider-Man 3 Christopher Young will also score Ghost Rider and The Grudge 2. Ghost Rider tells the story of stunt motorcyclist Johnny Blaze (Nicholas Cage) who gives up his soul to become a hellblazing vigilante, to fight against power hungry Blackheart, the son of the devil himself.
The film based on a Marvel comic character is directed by Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil). Ghost Rider hits theatres July 14, 2006. The Grudge 2 is the sequel to one of the biggest blockbuster in 2004 produced by Sam Raimi, the movie is expected to hit the theaters October 20, 2006.
 

 

Young is going to spin the web
 11/17/2005 Hot of the press - Christopher Young has officially been signed to score Spider-Man 3. The second sequel of the popular franchise directed by Sam Raimi will be released May 2007.
 

 

Composer's Master Class
 11/04/2005 Fox Home Entertainment released the special edition DVD of The Fly II last october. The DVD includes a new interview (12:44 min) with Young where he discusses the mood he was trying to set with the film, and how he achieved his goals. There’s some talk of his other work, but this mostly concentrates on his score for The Fly II. In addition to the release of the DVD few clips from the score are now online.
 
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