Star Wars Film Concert Series Production Credits
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In a career spanning more than five decades,
John Williams has become one of America’s most
accomplished and successful composers for film
and for the concert stage, and he remains one of
our nation’s most distinguished and contributive
musical voices. He has composed the music
and served as music director for more than one
hundred films, including all nine Star Wars films,
the first three Harry Potter films, Superman, JFK,
Born on the Fourth of July, Memoirs of a Geisha, Far
and Away, The Accidental Tourist, Home Alone and
The Book Thief. His 45-year artistic partnership with
director Steven Spielberg has resulted in many of
Hollywood’s most acclaimed and successful films,
including Schindler’s List, E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,
Jaws, Jurassic Park, Close Encounters of the Third
Kind, the Indiana Jones films, Munich, Saving
Private Ryan, The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse,
Lincoln, The BFG and The Post. His contributions
to television music include scores for more than
200 television films for the groundbreaking, early
anthology series Alcoa Theatre, Kraft Television
Theatre, Chrysler Theatre and Playhouse 90, as well
as themes for NBC Nightly News (“The Mission”),
NBC’s Meet the Press, and the PBS arts showcase
Great Performances. He also composed themes
for the 1984, 1988, and 1996 Summer Olympic
Games, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games. He has
received five Academy Awards® and fifty-one
Oscar® nominations, making him the Academy’s
most-nominated living person and the secondmost
nominated person in the history of the
Oscars. He has received seven British Academy
Awards (BAFTA), twenty-four Grammys®, four
Golden Globes®, five Emmys®, and numerous
gold and platinum records. In 2003, he received
the Olympic Order (the IOC’s highest honor) for
his contributions to the Olympic movement. He
received the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors
in December of 2004. In 2009, Mr. Williams was
inducted into the American Academy of Arts &
Sciences, and he received the National Medal
of Arts, the highest award given to artists by the
U.S. Government. In 2016, he received the 44th
Life Achievement Award from the American Film
Institute – the first time in their history that this
honor was bestowed upon a composer.
In January 1980, Mr. Williams was named
nineteenth music director of the Boston Pops
Orchestra, succeeding the legendary Arthur
Fiedler. He currently holds the title of Boston
Pops Laureate Conductor which he assumed
following his retirement in December, 1993, after
fourteen highly successful seasons. He also holds
the title of Artist-in-Residence at Tanglewood. Mr.
Williams has composed numerous works for the
concert stage, among them two symphonies, and
concertos commissioned by several of the world’s
leading orchestras, including a cello concerto
for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, a bassoon
concerto for the New York Philharmonic, a trumpet
concerto for The Cleveland Orchestra, and a horn
concerto for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In
2009, Mr. Williams composed and arranged “Air
and Simple Gifts” especially for the first inaugural
ceremony of President Barack Obama, and in
September 2009, the Boston Symphony premiered
a new concerto for harp and orchestra entitled
“On Willows and Birches”.
John Williams
SVP/GM, Disney Concerts
Chip McLean
Supervising Technical Director
Alex Levy – Epilogue Media
Film Preparation
Ramiro Belgardt
Business Affairs, Lucasfilm
Rhonda Hjort
Chris Holm
Music Preparation
Mark Graham
Matthew Voogt
Joann Kane Music Service
Disney Music Library
Operations, Disney Concerts
Mae Crosby
Royd Haston
Business Affairs, Disney Concerts
Darryl Franklin
Meg Ross
Jesenia Gallegos
Non-Theatrical Sales, Twentieth
Century Fox
Julian Levin
Business Affairs, Warner-
Chappell
Scott McDowell
President, Disney Music Group
Ken Bunt