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Craig Armstrong
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Craig Armstrong, OBE (born 29 April 1959) is a Scottish composer of modern orchestral music, electronica and film scores. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in 1981, and has since written music for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta. Armstrong's score for Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet earned him a BAFTA for Achievement in Film Music and an Ivor Novello. He would collaborate with Luhrmann again on his next two films, Moulin Rouge! and The Great Gatsby. His score for the former earned him the 2001 American Film Institute's composer of the Year award, a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and a BAFTA. Armstrong was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Original Score in 2004 for the biopic Ray. His other feature film scoring credits include Love Actually, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and The Incredible Hulk. Armstrong was born in Shettleston, Glasgow, Scotland. He studied musical composition, violin and piano at the Royal Academy of Music from 1977 to 1981, where his teachers included Cornelius Cardew and Malcolm MacDonald. He was awarded the Charles Lucas prize and the Harvey Lohr scholarship for composition, the FTCL Fellowship in composition, and also won the GLAA Young Jazz Musician of the Year in 1982. Upon completing his studies, Armstrong served as music and dance specialist at the Strathclyde Regional Council in 1984. In 1985 Armstrong toured with Midge Ure on his G
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albums
The Space Between Us
The Orchestral Score From Baz Luhrmann's Film The Great Gatsby
Far from the Madding Crowd (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
As If To Nothing
Piano Works
Love Actually (Original Motion Picture Score)
Me Before You (Original Motion Picture Score)
The Incredible Hulk
plunkett & macleane
Cruel Intentions
Ray - Original Motion Picture Score
Plunkett And Macleane