Mychael Danna
Mychael Danna’s career in film and TV music has been defined by his distinctive fusion of classical orchestration with world music traditions, making him one of the most original voices in contemporary scoring. His Academy Award–winning work on Ang Lee’s Life of Pi stands beside acclaimed scores like The Ice Storm, Ride with the Devil, and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny (co-scored with his brother Jeff Danna). In television, his haunting music for Alias Grace and his Emmy-winning score for World Without End showed the same textural richness he brought to Atom Egoyan’s films such as The Sweet Hereafter and Exotica.
Danna’s versatility extends to more mainstream projects too, including Moneyball with Brad Pitt, Capote starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Little Miss Sunshine with Steve Carell, and animated features like Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur and Disney’s Onward, both collaborations with Jeff Danna. His style sits comfortably alongside fellow masters like Alexandre Desplat, Carter Burwell, and Thomas Newman, and his blending of sitar, bansuri, and tabla with Western symphonics recalls A. R. Rahman’s Slumdog Millionaire or Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
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