Christopher Young (b. 1957) is an award-winning composer of music for film and television. Born on 28th April 1957 in Redbank, New Jersey, Young graduated from Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts in music, and then did postgraduate work at North Texas State University. In 1980 he moved to Los Angeles. A jazz drummer at first, hearing some of
Bernard Herrmann's works convinced him to be a film composer. At the UCLA Film School, he studied under
David Raskin. He teaches at the Thornton School of Music of the University of Southern California. Many of his m…
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