John Turner - Composer
John Turner's compositions for film, stage, television, and web span the full spectrum of style and genre. His score for the feature film thriller You Belong to Me (Wolfe Releasing, 2008) features strings by the powerhouse NYC string band ETHEL. John recently completed scores for the dramatic short film Dearly Departed (Santa Barbara International Film Festival, 2011) and the comedy Clara's Carma (BendFilm Festival, 2010)
Film scores additionally include (partial listing) the independent feature drama Alma Mater (Hamptons Film Festival and Austin Film Festival, Audience Award, 2002), the comedy short films Slo-Mo (Sundance, Telluride, HBO, 2002) and Passengers (Deauville Film Festival, Winner, Special Jury Prize, 2002, Deauville, France; Sundance Film Festival, 2002).
John played keyboards on Broadway for the hit show Jekyll & Hyde and composed and performed new music for the stage production of Berlin, produced by Kerry Barden at the Tribeca Playhouse, NYC. John's music, along with the music of Moby and other artists, was part of multi-media artist Romeo Alaeff's work for the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Chelsea Art Museum video installation, Crybaby. John's television scoring includes projects for Kraft Foods, The History Channel, Discovery Kids, The National Science Foundation, Worth Publishing, and NBC.
In 2008, John was named a finalist for the Sacatar Institute Artist Residency in Bahia, Brazil. In 2005 he was selected to serve as an artist in residency at La Napoule Art Foundation in southern France. John was named a finalist for the Ned Rorem Award for Song for the piece Up-Hill in January 2004. His piece for mixed chorus and orchestra, Not All, Only A Few Return, from the poem by the Pushcart Prize winning poet Agha Shahid Ali, was awarded a Jerome Foundation/American Composer's Forum/Vocal Essence reading in Minneapolis.
John is currently working on several theater projects including a musical based on the ending of apartheid in South Africa. John is a member of ASCAP, the American Music Center, the American Composer's Forum, and The Society of Composers and Lyricists.
Filmography
My NIght With Andrew Cunanan - 2011 - Drama
Clara's Carma - 2010 - Comedy
Stephen Tobolowsky, Alex Dawson
Dearly Departed - 2010 - Drama
Women on the Edge - 2009 - Documentary
You Belong To Me - 2007 - Thriller
Patti D'Arbanville, Daniel Sauli
Homeless Not Hopeless - 2007 - Documentary
The Maid of Honor - 2005 - Comedy
Superstore - 2004 - Dramedy
Clea Lewis
Alma Mater - 2002 - Drama
Alexander Chaplin, Cady McClain, Will Lyman
Passengers - 2002 - Comedy
James Urbaniak, Christina Kirk
Slo-Mo - 2001 - Comedy
Katherine Moennig, Jimmi Simpson
Gloria - 1999 - Drama
Sharon Stone, Howard Shore - Composer
"What really made the movie work for me, however, ...was composer John Turner's tense score, which held me in a Hermannesque grip."
Michael Guillen -
