Brad Ira Fiedel is an American composer] of scores for film and television. Fiedel is best known for his collaborations with director James Cameron on The Terminator and its critically acclaimed sequel . On these scores he used a synthesizer heavy approach, but also composed a number for scores utilizing various acoustic instruments including full orchestra.. He retired from scoring films in the late 90's and now focuses primarily on creating original musicals. Though he did a lot of work in the film genres of science fiction, action, and horror, his filmography includes Fright Night and its sequel, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Blue Steel, True Lies, and Johnny Mnemonic. He also scored a number of scores for comedy, "Compromising Positions", " Fraternity Vacation", and drama, " The Accused", "Rasputin" and others.
Biography
Raised in Bayville, New York on Long Island, Fiedel graduated from The Barlow School. After college, he became a popular and progressive composer. In the 1980s, he worked on several successful movies, predominantly in the action and thriller genres, and pioneered the use of electronic instruments and synthesizers in soundtracks. However, he almost disappeared from the mainstream at the end of the 1990s. In the early 70's Fiedel was signed as a songwriter to Paul Simon's DeShufflin' Music. In the mid 70's he spent six months as the keyboardist for Hall and Oates. He began his career in film in the mid 1970s, and wrote extensively for television films including Playing for Time written by Arthur Miller starring Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander, and some independant cinema releases, until director James Cameron hired him to score the science fiction filmThe Terminator in 1984, setting the wheels in motion for a successful career. Since then, Fiedel has scored many popular and successful movies, including Fright Night and its sequel Fright Night Part 2, The Big Easy, The Serpent and the Rainbow, The Accused, Blue Steel, ', Blink, and True Lies. He also composed the Lightstorm Entertainment logo jingle. In recent years, Fiedel moved on to other creative areas, writing original musicals, and designing and building a surf resort in La Saladita, Mexico. His last major theatrical score was in 1995, and although he enjoyed a brief period of renewed interest following the release of ' in 2003, when Marco Beltrami wrote an orchestral arrangement of his theme, he shows no sign of returning to the film music field. He recently released an audio version of his original musical Full Circle.
