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Name
  
Cong Su


Role
  
Composer


Education
  
Central Conservatory of Music

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Original Music Score, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Nominations
  
BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, Golden Rooster Award for Best Music

Music director
  
The Last Emperor, Empire of Silver, Confucius, Jasmine Women, Miracles

Similar People
  
Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne, Mark Peploe, Gabriella Cristiani, Ferdinando Scarfiotti

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Cong Su (simplified Chinese: 苏聪; traditional Chinese: 蘇聰; pinyin: Sū Cōng; born 1957 in Tianjin, China) is a Chinese composer.

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He studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, then in Germany. He has lectured on music theory, music analysis, film music and ballet music at the Musikhochschule in Munich. Since 1991 he is professor of film and media composition at the newly founded State Film Academy in the Stuttgart area.

Together with Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Byrne, Su won the Best Original Score Academy Award for the Bernardo Bertolucci film The Last Emperor in 1987. He has scored other film soundtracks, mostly for Asian films.

Su divides his time between Beijing, Lake Constance and Lucca, Italy.

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Works

Film
  • The Last Emperor – Soundtrack (1987)
  • Green Tea (2002)
  • Jasmine Women (2004)
  • References

    Cong Su Wikipedia


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