Genres Film score Role Film Score Composer | Name Hummie Mann Website www.hummiemann.com | |
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Born October 29, 1955 (age 68)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada ( 1955-10-29 ) Occupation(s) Composer, conductor, Orchestrator Albums Thomas and the Magic Railroad, Robin Hood - Men In Tights, Year of the Comet, Sticks And Stones Music director Thomas and the Magic Ra, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Dracula: Dead and Loving It, Year of the Comet, First Do No Harm | ||
Education Berklee College of Music | ||
Wiseman Music Studios Session with PNW Film Scoring School
Hummie Mann (Born October 29, 1955 in Montreal, Quebec) is an American film score composer. He is best known for his scores to the Mel Brooks films Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It. Mann was awarded an Emmy for arranging Billy Crystal's opening number for the 1992 Academy Awards and another Emmy in 1996 for an episode of Showtime's miniseries Picture Windows called "Language of the Heart". He was nominated for two more for arrangements on the series Moonlighting.
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In addition to composing for television and film, Mann has orchestrated several film scores including Addams Family Values, Sister Act, Georgia Rule and Thomas and the Magic Railroad.
In 1997, Mann established the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program in Seattle, Washington to instruct students in film scoring, music technology, songwriting for film, and video game audio. This program merged with the Seattle Film Institute in 2011 and became accredited to confer a Masters of Music degree in Film Composition. In 2010 Mann was cited as one of the top 10 Leaders in Learning by Variety magazine.