Film and television composer Steven Price last year won the Academy Award for Best Original Score thanks to his tremendous Gravity composition. Relatively new to the game and having mainly worked other odd jobs in the music departments on films, finally reaching one of the top prizes in the field, how does one follow up the prestige? For Price, David Ayer's World War II drama Fury, starring Brad Pitt, was the next step, with early Oscar speculation already buzzing ahead of the movie's release date.
In our exclusive interview with the acclaimed composer, Price revealed that the pressures of following his Oscar-winning score for Gravity was not as stressful as one would think. He also opened up about Fury, working his way through the music departments on films, and what advice he has for aspiring composers trying to follow in his footsteps.
Music Times: How did you get into composing music for film and TV?
Steven Price: Well, that's a long time ago really. I've always wanted to do music, I've pretty much done nothing else from a very early age. There were instruments around my house and that's just been my thing. I really thought I was going to get into record production — that was in my head, that was what I was going to do — and I got through university, did all you needed to do there, and then started working in studio.
It wasn't quite what I expected it to be. And I remember thinking, "God, all I've done is music. Well, what am I going to do now?" It was at that point that I kind of got lucky with an answer in a music magazine for a film composer looking for an assistant. I was about 20, 21 then, and I got a job with a film composer, and basically it was like a light going on. I was in the studio and told to work out how to make the gear work and it all kind of added up really.
From youth all I ever did was write stories and play music, and film music is basically the combination of the two things. It kind of let me combine the two things I've been always interested in.
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