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Graham Eric Reynolds Born March 5 1971 Is An American Composer Bandleader And Improviser. Based In Austin Texas He Holds A Creative Capital Award An Independent Music Award Two Frederick R. Loewe Music Theatre Awards Nine Austin Critics Table Awards The John Bustin Award Multiple Austin Chronicle Best Composer Wins And A B. Iden Payne Award. Reynolds’ Regular Performance And Recording Vehicle Golden Arm Trio Is A Band In Name Only Featuring Reynolds As The Only Consistent Member. Golden Arm Trio Has Performed All Over The US And Has Released Three CDs In Addition To Featuring On The Soundtrack Of The Warner Brothers’ Film A Scanner Darkly. In The Early 1990s Some Of Reynolds's Most Personal Works In The Realm Of Concert Music Struggled To Line Up With The Right Spaces Presenters And Funding. Alongside Peter Stopschinski Another Composer-Bandleader That Was A Part Of The Burgeoning Rock And Punk Scene Of Austin Reynolds Began To Apply The Collective Creation And Self-Production Methods Of The Rock Scene To The World Of Classical Music. Golden Hornet Formed Starting With Six Pieces For String Quartet 1999 Performed By Tosca String Quartet. Collaborations With Austin Lyric Opera Glenn Kotche Local High School Orchestras And Many Others Followed Ranging From Percussion Pieces To Shostakovich. Reynolds And Stopschinski Produced Curated And Commissioned All Of The Works Including Mozart Requiem Undead 2014 Resulting In Over 150 Artists Performing With Contributions From DJ Spooky Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer Caroline Shaw And Many Others. In 2008 Golden Hornet Received Official 501 C 3 Designation And Has Since Grown In Capacity As Well As Become More Clarified In Mission One Of Commissioning New Music Fostering Young And Emerging Composers And Presenting Adventurous Works In Non-Traditional Settings. Reynolds Continues As Golden Hornet's Artistic Director Today. The Organization Has Reached Over 1500 Audience Members Contracted Over Eighteen Local Musicians Commissioned Work From Seven Celebrated Composers And Fostered The Commissioning Of Five New Works. Upcoming Endeavor The Sound Of Science Features Works From The Likes Of Paola Prestini Yuka Honda Maja S.K. Ratjke Felipe Pérez Santiago And Foday Musa Suso. After Many Experimental Shorts And Several Live Scores For Silent Films Reynolds's First Feature Film Score Was The Journeyman 2001 A Grim Sergio Leone-Inspired Western Featuring Willie Nelson. His Relationship With Iconic Independent Film Director Richard Linklater Slacker Dazed And Confused School Of Rock Started With A Simple Piano Score For The Documentary Short “Live From Shiva’s Dance Floor” In 2003. Not Long After Linklater Asked Reynolds To Score A Scanner Darkly 2006 Which Linklater Was Adapting From The Philip K. Dick Novel. Keanu Reeves Robert Downey Jr. Woody Harrelson And Winona Ryder Starred In The Rotoscoped Film. The Score Which Featured Acoustic Instruments And Electric Guitar Processed Through Computer Effects Was Declared “Best Soundtrack Of The Decade” By Cinema Retro Magazine. Completing And Releasing A Scanner Darkly Changed Reynolds's Life Propelling His Musical Career Forward. A Consistent Number Of Collaborations With Linklater Have Followed Bernie 2011 Starring Jack Black Which Required Totally Different Music - Hymns Strings Country Up To Speed 2012 Starring Speed Levitch And Broadcast By Hulu Before Midnight 2013 The Third Of Linklater's Romantic Trilogy Featuring Julie Delpy And Ethan Hawke Which Premiered At Sundance. Reynolds Has Also Continued Work With A Variety Of Other Collaborators Apart From Linklater Including The Diplomat 2015 For HBO And Rooster Teeth's Series Day 5 2016-2017 . Beyond His Scoring Work With Major Collaborators Reynolds Has Composed And Performed Several Live Scores For Silent Films Including Battleship Potemkin 1925 Nosferatu 1922 Wings 1927 Metropolis 1927 And Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger 1927 . Reynolds' Output Includes Five Symphonies Two Operas String Quartets And Numerous Chamber Music Pieces In Addition To The Work With Golden Arm Trio And In Film Dance And Theater.

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