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Robert Townson
Robert Townson is the most prolific producer of film music in the world. He has been averaging one new album release a week for the last thirty years! Robert has been described as “the living embodiment of the history of film music.” His lifelong passion for film and classical music has made him one of the world’s great film music scholars and educators, inspiring others through his lectures, writings, concerts and recordings. In July of 2010, Townson celebrated the release of his 1000th album (Alex North’s Spartacus). and currently has over 1400 to his credit.
Townson founded his first record label, Masters Film Music, in Canada in October of 1985. His first album release was Jerry Goldsmith’s The Final Conflict, and the string of successes has continued, uninterrupted, ever since. Townson and Goldsmith would end up doing over 80 albums together. His complete discography of original soundtracks, restorations of classics and new recordings is impossible to even summarize briefly. It overflows with blockbuster and Academy Award-winning films, iconic and Emmy-winning television productions, as well as Grammy-nominated and -winning recordings.
2013 saw Townson produce and host China’s very first film music concert on the stage of the Venetian Resort Hotel featuring the Macau Orchestra and Choir and flute soloist Sara Andon. California’s Golden State Pops Orchestra dedicated their entire 2013 season to the celebration of Varèse Sarabande’s 35th Anniversary. This included a show on May 11 that brought together an unprecedented assembly of film composers — Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Powell, Michael Giacchino and Brian Tyler among them. Robert was presented with the prestigious Ambassador Award at the Krakow Film Music Festival’s 10th Anniversary Gala in May 2017. Robert reunited with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in November 2018, producing and hosting concerts in Edinburgh and Glasgow which celebrated the Varèse Sarabande 40th Anniversary and looked back over his 30-year career with the label and his 40-album series of recordings with the RSNO. Robert Townson continues his soundtrack and concert production activities bringing great film music, live and recorded, to audiences all over the world.
Robert Townson
Producer of nearly 1500 album recordings featuring the Hollywood Studio Symphony, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Seattle Symphony Orchestra etc. etc.
Producer of over 100 international orchestral and jazz concerts including:
- Abbey Road Studios 80th Anniversary Gala, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Universal Pictures 100th Anniversary, Tenerife Symphony Orchestra
- Jerry Goldsmith’s 70th birthday concert tour, RSNO and LSO
- Elmer Bernstein’s 75th and 80th birthday concerts, RSNO
- Lalo Schifrin’s 85th birthday concert, L.A. All-star big hand
- Varèse Sarabande 35th and 40th anniversary concerts, tributes to Henry Mancini,
Alex North, Bernard Herrmann etc.
Long-standing friendships working with legendary composers Jerry Goldsmith, Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, Georges Delerue, Michael Kamen, Maurice Jarre, James Horner, Basil Poledouris as well as contemporary composers Hans Zimmer, James Newton Howard, Michael Giacchino, Brian Tyler, John Powell, Alexandre Desplat, Mychael Danna, Carter Burwell, Dave Grusin, Lalo Schifrin, Danny Elfman, John Debney, Ramin Djawadi, Howard Shore etc.
Produced and directed the feature documentary “Conversation on Alex North’s Spartacus: The Celebration of a Masterpiece” (2010) with John Williams, David Newman, Lalo Schifrin, Christopher Young, Brian Tyler, Mark Isham and Alexander Desplat.
Authored, co-authored and interviewed for over twenty books on music
Countless international awards for work
