Wang Zongxian

Wang Zongxian

Nathan Wang, a famous Chinese American composer in Hollywood, won the Emmy best music award.

It's a light of Asia and a color of China, which is different from Hollywood sounders, either Europe or the United States and Japan. When it comes to his international influence, apart from his 100 film and television soundtracks, it is worth mentioning his cooperation with three "film and television giants": Jackie Chan, Spielberg and Hans Zimmer. Since Jackie Chan's first work, rumble in the Bronx, which opened the door to Hollywood movies in a real sense, he has composed scores for Jackie Chan's films, including police story 4: first strike, who am I, and myth. Over the past ten years, Nathan Wang has witnessed and improved Jackie Chan's film and television journey of "going west and returning East". To some extent, Nathan Wang is an important witness and guarantee of Jackie Chan's international status. As a well-known Chinese American composer in Hollywood, Wang's success is also reflected in his cooperation with three World War II documentaries produced by Steven Spielberg: the last days, the price for peace and the lost children of Berlin. Among them, "the last days", a collaboration between Nathan Wang and Hans Zimmer, winner of the Oscar for best original music and Grammy for best film soundtrack album, and director of Hollywood soundtrack, won the 71st Academy Award for best documentary. In 2011, Wang Zongxian independently completed the music of the documentary "the legend of Pancho Barnes and the happy bottom Riding Club" and won the Emmy Award for best music.

Personal experience

Nathan Wang is one of the most successful composers in Hollywood and Asia. He has been a prolific and versatile composer of Jackie Chan's films and Stephen Spielberg's documentaries, cartoons, operas and symphonies. Nathan Wang is a well-known Chinese American composer and film sounder in Hollywood. His soundtracks include television, film, opera and drama. Wang Zongxian is one of the few film score masters who are active in Hollywood and Chinese film market at the same time. Professor Wang has cooperated with many Chinese filmmakers and musicians, such as Ang Lee, Tang Jili, Jackie Chan, Zhang Ziyi, Wang Leehom, Nicholas Tse, Tam Yonglin, Faye Wong, Jackie Cheung, Na Ying, Zhang Xinzhe, and has a great influence in the Chinese film and television music industry. Professor Nathan Wang has won the best music and sound effects award of dramalogue awards seven times, and has been nominated by dramalogue Circle Awards and ovation awards almost every year for his outstanding contribution in drama. In 2011, Nathan Wang won the Emmy Award for best music for his documentary The Legend of Pancho Barnes and the happy bottom reading club. Nathan Wang's musical journey began with classical music. At the age of 3, with the encouragement of his mother, he began to learn piano. "My love for music may be innate," says Nathan Wang with a smile. His mother is a musician and plays the piano well. "When I was very young, I took a bath in the bathtub, and my mother would deliberately miss a few notes, and then I would climb out of the bathtub." He said that this was his mother's other musical enlightenment to him. Soon, Nathan Wang's father introduced him to a jazz artist. He was a scientist. Just as he inherited his mother's musical talent, Wang also inherited his "scientific talent" from his father. At the age of 9, he studied composition with Morten lauridsen, a famous composer at the University of Southern California. At the age of 18, he graduated from the Music Department of Southern California, Wang Zongxian, who had nothing to do with himself, was admitted to Oxford University and studied medicine until he got a doctor's degree. "At that time, there were two paths waiting for me. One was to engage in music, and the other was to be a great doctor in the future," says Nathan Wang. But after seriously "asking" himself, Nathan Wang did not choose to be a doctor, even though the door of Harvard Medical School was open to him. He laughs, "if I were a surgeon, I might leave scissors in your stomach or other things in your internal organs after the operation. Then I think I'm too unprofessional." "My heart belongs to music and art." "Music is a smart cat." Wang Zongxian thinks that music has various forms, like cats in life, sometimes docile and sometimes playful. "We use all kinds of music to express all kinds of human emotions, including happiness, anger, sadness and music." Nathan Wang received a general education at Pomona College instead of going to music school. After that, he won the Fulbright scholarship and continued to study in the music graduate school of Oxford University. In foreign countries, he is good at music composition and piano performance. After returning home, the young pianist began to play piano in bars of five-star hotels. Here, one of his fans is the producer of the TV show "China Beach". A door opened to him and he eventually became the composer of the TV show. Since then, he has composed music for Fox's eek! The cat, DreamWorks Animation's magic clock tower, TV series bill and Ted's wonderful journey, and many of Spielberg's works. In 1999, his film "the last days" with Hans Zimmer won the Oscar for best documentary. He was also commissioned to write operas for the Los Angeles Opera House, which was first performed by art director Domingo in 2000. He also won an Emmy Award for best arranger for the TV show reefer madness. Since then, Professor Nathan Wang has been working in the TV and film industry, working with top directors Andy Fickman (DreamWorks "football monster", "Disney movie" game plan "," how are you again ") and Kevin Murphy (TV series" Valentine "and" cheerleading girl "). He has played for the following award-winning films: one six right, the legend of Pancho Barnes and the happy bottom riding club, and the Spanish film maktub. In 2004, he also won the favor of John Williams to score John Kerry's documentary at the Democratic National Convention. Nathan Wang has also made great achievements in the field of musicals. He has won seven dramalogue awards for best music and sound effects. In 2005, he wrote the musical "Imelda" based on the life of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos, which was shown at the Phelan Huang theater in Los Angeles before it was performed as a non Broadway play in New York. Prior to that, Wang Zongxian was commissioned by two national arts foundations to write musicals: "the Canton jazz club" at East West players theater (which still holds the record for the longest release time of original plays) and "Cathayian pirate", a play about Asian Americans fighting during the American Civil War. Today, he works with Andy Fickman and Kevin Murphy to create the musical Dennis the menace, which features hank Ketchum's comic series. Nathan Wang also devoted himself to the Chinese film industry, becoming Jackie Chan's "Royal" Composer: "Hongfan district", "Police Story 4: simple task", "who am I", "myth". He was invited to compose for Leehom Wang's film "love notice", Ziyi Zhang's film "perfect" and Guo Fucheng's film "SWAT new human". At the same time, Nathan Wang also wrote songs for some recording artists, such as Faye Wong, who is known as Madonna of Asia. His popular song "I do" won the second Singapore Golden Melody Award in 1994. The award has opened many doors for him. Professor Wang Zongxian is favored by many other Chinese singers, such as Zhang Yu's who loves who, Chen Jieyi's wait for me to say I love you, Han Hong's silver armour, Liu Ruoying's April day, etc

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