Jonathan Elias

A New York-born composer with a Jewish-Hungarian heritage began piano lessons at six and was writing music by twelve; formal studies at the Eastman School of Music and Bennington College prepared him for a career that started in movie-trailer scoring for titles such as Alien, Blade Runner, Gandhi and Back to the Future. In 1981 he and his brother founded Elias Music, later collaborating with John… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources