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Christopher Lennertz & Alan Menken
4+ albums
Soundtrackinstrumental
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Christopher Lennertz (born January 2, 1972) is a composer, arranger, producer and conducter of video games, films, television shows, and records. He was born in Boston, and moved to Easton, Pennsylvania at age 9, where he then began professional music training, learning to play the trumpet and the guitar. He studied composition, jazz arranging and theory in high school. He attended The University of Southern California's Thorton School of Music where he met Eric Kripke, the creator of the TV show Supernatural. He collaborated with Kripke on two short films, one of which won the Audience Award at the Slamdance film festival. He would later work with Kripke again on the score for Supernatural. He worked for composers Basil Poledouris and Michael Kamen after college. Alan Menken (born July 22, 1949 in New Rochelle, New York, United States) is an American musical theatre and film composer, and pianist. Menken has collaborated with several renowned lyricists including Howard Ashman (1950-1991), Tim Rice and Stephen Schwartz. For his work he has won eight Academy Awards as well as ten additional nominations User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
