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Biography
Jonathan Price is an American composer of new opera, musical theatre, film and concert
works. His most recent musical Lao Jiu:
The Musical, featuring a libretto in Mandarin
and Chinese dialects, inaugurated The New
Drama Centre in Singapore to packed houses and
overwhelmingly rave reviews. His latest
film scores are for the feature Cyber Wars,
released by New Line, and Necrosis, released
by American World Pictures. His opera The Lion
and the Wood Nymph was a winner of New Opera
Works' OIAM competition.
Jonathan's music for
television has been heard on Showtime, The Discovery Channel, TLC, Oxygen, MTV, PAX, PBS, and Fox.
With playwright/lyricist Jeff Goode (The Eight: Reindeer
Monologues), he composed the song "The Hubba
Hubba Hula" for The Disney Channel's American
Dragon: Jake Long as well as the musical
Marley's Christmas, which was a finalist in the
Search for New Voices in American Musical Theatre.
Their children's musical Rumpelstiltskin is
published by Baker's Plays.
His music for film
includes the features Peace & Riot, Necrosis, Cyber Wars,
Rustin,
and Dark Woods. His work as a
soundtrack producer and synthesist can be heard in
An Unfinished Life, The Grudge,
Runaway Jury, Shade, The Core,
The Country Bears, The Shipping News, and
Bandits.
He is currently composing the pentaptych opera ÆSOPERA,
with libretti by Jeff Goode, Jan Michael Alejandro and the composer,
to be presented in October 2011 by Social Arts at The Blinn House,
Pasadena, directed by Kirk Smith. This event is
supported in part through Subito, the quick advancement grant
program of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American
Composers Forum. He is also composing the holiday opera
The Christmas Ogre with librettist Jeff Goode, to be produced at The
Sierra Madre Playhouse in December 2012. |
