Jonathan Tunick

Personal Info

Know For

Sound

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-04-19 (87 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York, U.S

Jonathan Tunick

Biography

Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021. Tunick has won numerous awards and became the seventh person to win an EGOT in 1997. In film, he has worked mainly as an orchestrator, including for several of Mel Brooks' early films. He composed the scores for films such as Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), Endless Love (1981), The Birdcage (1996), and Find Me Guilty (2006).

Acting

1977

Production

1991

Into the Woods

as Orchestrator

2001

Putting It Together

as Orchestrator

2006

Find Me Guilty

as Original Music Composer

1976

Pacific Overtures

as Orchestrator

1996

Passion

as Orchestrator

1974

Blazing Saddles

as Orchestrator

2013

Merrily We Roll Along

as Orchestrator

1983

1978

Flying High

as Music

1996

Company

as Orchestrator

-

Road Show

as Music Arranger

1974

Young Frankenstein

as Orchestrator

1981

Endless Love

as Original Music Composer

1979

The Sorrows of Gin

as Original Music Composer

2014

Into the Woods

as Orchestrator

1987

1996

The Birdcage

as Original Music Composer

2011

Company

as Orchestrator

2025

Merrily We Roll Along

as Orchestrator

2004

2020

Bombshell in Concert

as Orchestrator

2021

Simply Sondheim

as Orchestrator

1996

The Birdcage

as Music Arranger

2025

1980

Blinded by the Light

as Original Music Composer

1980

The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

as Original Music Composer

1980

Swan Song

as Original Music Composer

1979

America 2100

as Original Music Composer

1979

Rendezvous Hotel

as Original Music Composer

1994

The Last Good Time

as Original Music Composer

1985

Brotherly Love

as Original Music Composer

1983

I Am The Cheese

as Original Music Composer

1981

Comedy of Horrors

as Original Music Composer

1981

Fort Apache, the Bronx

as Original Music Composer

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