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Aaron Zigman

Composer Aaron Zigman may be best known for his more than 70 film scores, but his other music, in both classical and pop genres, has also been widely heard, sometimes by listeners unaware of his contributions. Zigman has written songs for some of the biggest stars in pop music history, sometimes co-writing with the artists, and he has a long record of success as a studio musician and arranger. On the classical side, a recording of Zigman's oratorio Émigré appeared in 2024. Zigman was born on January 6, 1963, in San Diego. His mother was a pianist and harpist. She gave him his first lessons, and he also studied both classical music and jazz in the San Diego area. Zigman graduated from San Diego's Point Loma High School and went on to the University of California, Los Angeles. Zigman was something of a child prodigy, and he made his recording debut as early as 1974 as a keyboardist on the album Acuerdate de mi by Latin American artist Bertín Osborne. In his late teens, he also did studio work for pop singer Boz Scaggs. When he was in his third year at UCLA, he was offered a contract by the Almo/Irving publishing firm, and he threw himself wholeheartedly into a musical career. He began taking lessons with composer and arranger George Bassman, also his cousin, who had done orchestrations on the film The Wizard of Oz. While still in college, Zigman wrote several songs for the pop group The Jets, worked for producer Clive Davis, and did production work for Aretha Franklin and Natalie Cole, among others. In the 1980s, Zigman wrote songs for major stars of the day, including Tina Turner, The Pointer Sisters, Huey Lewis, Patti LaBelle, and many others. In the 1990s, he added film score work to his résumé, with his keyboards and production work being featured on such major films as Mulan, What's Love Got to Do with It?, and Pocahontas. By the early 2000s, Zigman was ready for the challenge of writing a full-scale film score. For his first one, 2002's John Q., he received a BMI Film Music Award. His 2004 score for The Notebook won multiple awards, and he went on to score major releases, such as The Proposal, Sex & the City, and Escape from Planet Earth. In parallel to his film work, Zigman pursued a career in classical music. He has written chamber works, including a viola sonata, the tone poem Rabin: An Orchestral Work in Five Movements, which has been performed multiple times in the Los Angeles Area, and Jewish religious music. In 2016, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performed on Zigman's score for the film Wakefield, and the two went on to work together on the project "Tango Manos." Zigman's oratorio Émigré, based on the experiences of Jewish refugees from Nazism in Shanghai, China, was premiered by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra under conductor Long Yu and released on an album by the Deutsche Grammophon label in 2024.
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