Nathan Wang

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Nathan Wang
Born
Nathan Tsung-hsien Wang

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Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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GenresFilm score
Websitewww.nathanwang.com
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Nathan Tsung-hsien Wang (Template:Langx; born August 8, 1956) is an American film composer, who has worked extensively in both the United States and in Hong Kong.[1] He is best known internationally for his work with Jackie Chan, and with directors Benny Chan and Stanley Tong. He also scored the Detective Chinatown film series.

Early life and education

Wang was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents from Shanghai, China. He began playing the piano at age three.[2] He attended Pomona College, graduating in 1979,[3] and received an Ambassadorial Scholarship from Rotary International to study at Oxford University.

Career

Wang's first film score was for the comedy Screwball Hotel.

In 1995, Wang was hired by Hong Kong film studio Golden Harvest to score the Jackie Chan film Rumble in the Bronx. The film proved a hit and Chan's North American breakthrough. Wang has subsequently scored Chan's films Police Story 4: First Strike (1996), Who Am I? (1998),

He also worked with notable Chinese-language filmmakers like Stanley Tong, Benny Chan, Chen Sicheng (on the Detective Chinatown films)

Wang is also an associate professor of film scoring at Peking University.[3]

Composer

Music department

2000s 1990s 1980s

  • One Six Right (2005) (orchestrator)
  • Sabrina: The Animated Series (composer: additional music) (22 episodes, 1999)
  • ... a.k.a. "Sabrina" (USA: short title)
    • "Anywhere But Here" (1999) TV episode (composer: additional music)
  • Boogie Shoes (1999) TV episode (composer: additional music)
  • Boy Meets Bike (1999) TV episode (composer: additional music)
  • Extreme Harvey (1999) TV episode (composer: additional music)
  • Feats of Clay (1999) TV episode (composer: additional music)
  • The Last Days (1998) (associate composer) (orchestrator)
  • Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders (1989) (composer: additional music)
  • ... a.k.a. Flesh Gordon 2
  • Soundtrack:
  • Wo shi shei (1998) (writer: "Friendship")
  • ... a.k.a. Jackie Chan's Who Am I? (USA: cable TV title)
  • ... a.k.a. Who Am I?
  • Hung fan au (1995) (writer: "You Are The One")
  • ... a.k.a. Rumble in the Bronx (Hong Kong: English title) (USA)
  • ... a.k.a. Hong fan ou (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
  • ... a.k.a. Red Bronx
  • ... a.k.a. Zizanie dans le Bronx (Canada: French title)
  • Actor:
  • Who's Your Daddy? (2003/I) (V) .... The Arnold Horshack Experience

References

  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cheng, Scarlet (July 18, 1999). "Performing Arts; Bringing a Cat's Tale to Life; Composer Nathan Wang provides the music to Amy Tan's story of a feline mischief maker for a staged reading at the Bowl". Los Angeles Times. pp. 55–56. Retrieved August 10, 2009 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Eng, Dinah (March 19, 2006). "Movie-music writer draws inspiration from the ivories". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved August 10, 2009.
  3. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."2021 Blaisdell Distinguished Alumni Award Winners". Pomona College. March 2, 2021. Retrieved March 3, 2021.

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