Clifford Glen Eidelman (born December 5, 1964) is an American composer and conductor who has scored films including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Free Willy 3: The Rescue, and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.
Career Eidelman began his formal training in violin at the age of eight and continued with multi-instrument training ranging from piano and guitar in genres such as jazz to classic music in his youth.Biography at FilmTracks.com After studying music at Santa Monica College and the University of Southern California, he scored his first feature film Magdalene in 1989.
His breakthrough composition was the 1991 score to Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.Star Trek VI soundtrack review at FilmTracks.com
In the years after, Eidelman continued to compose dramatic and epic scores such as Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.Christopher Columbus: The Discovery soundtrack review at FilmTracks.com As Eidelman's style of composing changed towards more sentimental and minimalistic scores, so did the films for which he scored.
Eidelman currently resides in Santa Monica, California and continues to score movies.
Notable scores (concert music)
Symphony No. 2 First recording performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conducted by Cliff Eidelman (2024) Bridges: For solo Piano (2021)
The Five Tales for Solo Piano (2019) Night in the Gallery for Chamber Ensemble (released 2019) (performed and recorded by Members of the London Symphony Orchestra) Symphony for Orchestra and Two Pianos (released 2018) (performed and recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra) Wedding in the Night Garden (2000) (performed by the Los Angeles Master Chorale) The Tempest (1997) (recorded by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra) Year Title Director(s) Studio(s) Notes 1988 Magdalene TAT FILM GmbH 1989 Dead Man Out Richard Pearce HBO Television film To Die For Deran Sarafian Academy Entertainment Animal Behavior Kjehl RasmussenH. Anne Riley Millimeter Films Triumph of the Spirit Robert M. Young Triumph Films The Final Days Richard Pearce ABC Television mini-series about Watergate Scandal 1990 Strike It Rich James Scott Miramax Films Themes only; score by Shirley Walker Crazy People Tony Bill Paramount Pictures Judgment Tom Topor HBO Television film 1991 Delirious Tom Mankiewicz Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Nicholas Meyer Paramount Pictures Tales from the Crypt Elliot Silverstein HBO Episode: "The Reluctant Vampire" 1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery John Glen Warner Bros. Pictures Leap of Faith Richard Pearce Paramount Pictures 1993 Untamed Heart Tony Bill Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Meteor Man Robert Townsend Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 1994 My Girl 2 Howard Zieff Columbia Pictures A Simple Twist of Fate Gillies MacKinnon Touchstone Pictures1995 Now and Then Lesli Linka Glatter New Line Cinema1996 If These Walls Could Talk Nancy Savoca HBO Television film 1997 The Beautician and the Beast Ken Kwapis Paramount Pictures Free Willy 3: The Rescue Sam Pillsbury Warner Bros. Family Entertainment 1998 Montana Jennifer Leitzes Initial Entertainment Group One True Thing Carl Franklin Universal Pictures1999 Witness Protection Richard Pearce HBO Television film2000 Ocean Men Bob TalbotTheatrical IMAX Film2001 An American Rhapsody Éva Gárdos Paramount Classics 2002 Harrison's Flowers Elie Chouraqui Universal Pictures USA version 2003 The Lizzie McGuire Movie Jim Fall Walt Disney Pictures 2004 Sexual Life Ken Kwapis Showtime Independent Films 2005 The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Ken Kwapis Warner Bros. Pictures 2006 Open Window Mia Goldman Image Entertainment 2009 He's Just Not That into You Ken Kwapis New Line Cinema 2012 Big Miracle Ken Kwapis Universal Pictures 2018 Being Dolphin 4D Bob Talbot SimEx-Iwerks
References
External links
* Cliff Eidelman at Filmtracks.com Cliff Eidelman at SoundtrackNet