David Spear
- Music Department
- Composer
- Producer
David Spear is a composer and conductor. He began his career
orchestrating many film scores for Elmer Bernstein including Animal
House, Ghostbusters, Airplane and Heavy Metal. After his Broadway debut
as Music Director of Merlin, the Magical Musical, Spear scored three
Academy Award nominated films: Ballet Robotique, Rainbow War and The
Courage to Care. He also wrote the music for the Emmy Award winning
documentary, Surviving Everest, for National Geographic. He has led the
London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, the Vancouver Symphony and the
Munich Philharmonic in performances and recordings of his own works.
Last season he conducted the Indianapolis Symphony in the premiere of
Ron McCurdy's The Langston Hughes Project, featuring actor and rapper
Ice-T.
Professor Spear has served on the faculties of Berklee College of Music and the USC Thornton School of Music where, in 2005, he was awarded the Casden Institute Faculty Research Grant to re-score Samuel Goldwyn's 1922 Classic Yiddish Silent Film Hungry Hearts. The new score and restored print premiered at the 2007 New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition from UCLA and was the recipient of the Henry Mancini Scholarship.
Professor Spear has served on the faculties of Berklee College of Music and the USC Thornton School of Music where, in 2005, he was awarded the Casden Institute Faculty Research Grant to re-score Samuel Goldwyn's 1922 Classic Yiddish Silent Film Hungry Hearts. The new score and restored print premiered at the 2007 New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition from UCLA and was the recipient of the Henry Mancini Scholarship.
