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Jonathan Tunick

Jonathan Tunick

Born April 19, 1938 · New York, New York, U.S

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Biography

Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021. Tunick has won numerous awards and became the seventh person to win an EGOT in 1997. In film, he has worked mainly as an orchestrator, including for several of Mel Brooks' early films. He composed the scores for films such as Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), Endless Love (1981), The Birdcage (1996), and Find Me Guilty (2006).

Sound 42

2020s

  1. 2025

    Merrily We Roll Along

    Orchestrator

    78

  2. Little Shrew (Snowflake)

    Orchestrator

  3. 2023

    Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best

    Orchestrator

  4. 2021

    Simply Sondheim

    Orchestrator

  5. 2020

    Bombshell in Concert

    Orchestrator

2010s

  1. 2017

    National Theatre Live: Follies

    Orchestrator

  2. 2014

    Into the Woods

    Orchestrator

    63

  3. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – In Concert with the New York Philharmonic

    Orchestrator

  4. 2013

    Merrily We Roll Along

    Orchestrator

  5. 2011

    Company

    Orchestrator

2000s

  1. 2006

    Find Me Guilty

    Original Music Composer

    67
  2. 2004

    Elaine Stritch at Liberty

    Orchestrator

  3. 2002

    A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center

    Orchestrator

  4. 2001

    Putting It Together

    Orchestrator

1990s

  1. 1996

    Company

    Orchestrator

  2. Passion

    Orchestrator

  3. The Birdcage

    Original Music Composer, Music Arranger

    75
  4. 1994

    The Last Good Time

    Original Music Composer

  5. 1991

    Into the Woods

    Orchestrator

  6. 1990

    New York City Opera: A Little Night Music

    Orchestrator

1980s

  1. 1987

    You Ruined My Life

    Music

  2. 1985

    Amazing Stories

    Music

    74

  3. Brotherly Love

    Original Music Composer

  4. 1983

    I Am the Cheese

    Original Music Composer

  5. Alice in Wonderland

    Conductor

  6. 1982

    Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

    Orchestrator

  7. The Shady Hill Kidnapping

    Music

  8. 1981

    Endless Love

    Original Music Composer

    41

  9. Fort Apache, the Bronx

    Original Music Composer

    66
  10. 1980

    Blinded by the Light

    Original Music Composer

  11. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street – Scenes from the Making of a Musical

    Orchestrator

  12. The Jilting of Granny Weatherall

    Original Music Composer

  13. Swan Song

    Original Music Composer

1970s

  1. 1979

    The Five Forty-Eight

    Original Music Composer

  2. O Youth and Beauty!

    Music

  3. The Sorrows of Gin

    Original Music Composer

  4. America 2100

    Original Music Composer

  5. 1978

    Flying High

    Music

  6. 1976

    Pacific Overtures

    Orchestrator

  7. 1974

    Young Frankenstein

    Orchestrator

    84

  8. Blazing Saddles

    Orchestrator

    78

Acted in 1

1970s

  1. 1977

    A Little Night Music

    Conductor