About
Jonathan Tunick
Overview
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).
Known for
Acting |
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| 1977 | A Little Night Music | Actor | Conductor | 58 Average |
Sound |
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| 2025 | Merrily We Roll Along | Sound | Orchestrator | 59 Average |
| 2025 | Little Shrew (Snowflake) | Sound | Orchestrator | 58 Average |
| 2023 | Celebrating 50 Years of Broadway's Best | Sound | Orchestrator | 58 Average |
| 2021 | Simply Sondheim | Sound | Orchestrator | N/A N/A |
| 2020 | Bombshell in Concert | Sound | Orchestrator | 59 Average |
| 2017 | National Theatre Live: Follies | Sound | Orchestrator | 58 Average |
| 2014 | Into the Woods | Sound | Orchestrator | 57 Average |
| 2014 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Sound | Orchestrator | 59 Average |
| 2013 | Merrily We Roll Along | Sound | Orchestrator | 59 Average |
| 2011 | Company | Sound | Orchestrator | 59 Average |
| 2006 | Find Me Guilty | Sound | Original Music Composer | 62 Fair |
| 2004 | Elaine Stritch at Liberty | Sound | Orchestrator | 59 Average |
| 2002 | A Little Night Music: Live from the Kennedy Center | Sound | Orchestrator | N/A N/A |
| 2001 | Putting It Together | Sound | Orchestrator | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Company | Sound | Orchestrator | 58 Average |
| 1996 | Passion | Sound | Orchestrator | 58 Average |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | Sound | Music Arranger | 66 Fair |
| 1996 | The Birdcage | Sound | Original Music Composer | 66 Fair |
| 1994 | The Last Good Time | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1991 | Into the Woods | Sound | Orchestrator | 60 Fair |
| 1990 | New York City Opera: A Little Night Music | Sound | Orchestrator | 59 Average |
| 1987 | You Ruined My Life | Sound | Music | 58 Average |
| 1985 | Brotherly Love | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1983 | I Am The Cheese | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1983 | Alice in Wonderland | Sound | Conductor | 58 Average |
| 1982 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Sound | Orchestrator | 60 Fair |
| 1982 | The Shady Hill Kidnapping | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1981 | Comedy of Horrors | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 1981 | Endless Love | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1981 | Fort Apache, the Bronx | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1980 | Blinded by the Light | Sound | Original Music Composer | 58 Average |
| 1980 | Sweeney Todd: Scenes from the Making of a Musical | Sound | Orchestrator | N/A N/A |
| 1980 | The Jilting of Granny Weatherall | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 1980 | Swan Song | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 1979 | The Five Forty-Eight | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1979 | O Youth and Beauty! | Sound | Music | 59 Average |
| 1979 | The Sorrows of Gin | Sound | Original Music Composer | 59 Average |
| 1979 | America 2100 | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 1979 | Rendezvous Hotel | Sound | Original Music Composer | N/A N/A |
| 1979 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Sound | Orchestrator | N/A N/A |
| 1978 | Flying High | Sound | Music | N/A N/A |
| 1976 | Pacific Overtures | Sound | Orchestrator | 59 Average |
| 1974 | Young Frankenstein | Sound | Orchestrator | 76 Good |
| 1974 | Blazing Saddles | Sound | Orchestrator | 69 Fair |
| Road Show | Sound | Music Arranger | N/A N/A |
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