Jonathan Tunick
Biography
Jonathan Tunick (born April 19, 1938) is an American orchestrator, musical director, and composer. He is best known for orchestrating the works of Stephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 with Company and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021. Tunick has won numerous awards and became the seventh person to win an EGOT in 1997. In film, he has worked mainly as an orchestrator, including for several of Mel Brooks' early films. He composed the scores for films such as Fort Apache the Bronx (1981), Endless Love (1981), The Birdcage (1996), and Find Me Guilty (2006).
Personal Details
Movies (44)
Merrily We Roll Along
Orchestrator (Sound)
2025
Little Shrew (Snowflake)
Orchestrator (Sound)
2025
Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best
Orchestrator (Sound)
2023
Simply Sondheim
Orchestrator (Sound)
2021
Bombshell in Concert with "Smash" Reunion
Orchestrator (Sound)
2020
Road Show
Music Arranger (Sound)
2019
National Theatre Live: Follies
Orchestrator (Sound)
2017
Into the Woods
Orchestrator (Sound)
2014
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Orchestrator (Sound)
2014
Merrily We Roll Along
Orchestrator (Sound)
2013
Company
Orchestrator (Sound)
2011
Find Me Guilty
Original Music Composer (Sound)
2006
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Orchestrator (Sound)
2004
A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center
Orchestrator (Sound)
2002
Putting It Together
Orchestrator (Sound)
2001
Company
Orchestrator (Sound)
1996
Passion
Orchestrator (Sound)
1996
The Birdcage
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1996
The Last Good Time
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1994
Into the Woods
Orchestrator (Sound)
1991
New York City Opera: A Little Night Music
Orchestrator (Sound)
1990
You Ruined My Life
Music (Sound)
1987
Brotherly Love
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1985
I Am The Cheese
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1983
Alice in Wonderland
Conductor (Sound)
1983
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Orchestrator (Sound)
1982
The Shady Hill Kidnapping
Music (Sound)
1982
Comedy of Horrors
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1981
Endless Love
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1981
Fort Apache, the Bronx
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1981
Blinded by the Light
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1980
Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical
Orchestrator (Sound)
1980
The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1980
Swan Song
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1980
The Five Forty-Eight
Music (Sound)
1979
O Youth and Beauty!
Music (Sound)
1979
The Sorrows of Gin
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
America 2100
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Rendezvous Hotel
Original Music Composer (Sound)
1979
Flying High
Music (Sound)
1978
A Little Night Music
as Conductor
1977
Pacific Overtures
Orchestrator (Sound)
1976
Young Frankenstein
Orchestrator (Sound)
1974
Blazing Saddles
Orchestrator (Sound)
1974
