Jonathan Tunick
Tunick receivingTony Award for Best Orchestrations 2024
Born	New York City, New York, United States
Education	Bard College,Juilliard School
Occupations	Orchestrator musical director composer
Spouse	Leigh Beery
Awards	EGOT

Jonathan Tunick is an Americanorchestrator,musical director, andcomposer. He is best known for orchestrating the works ofStephen Sondheim, their collaboration starting in 1970 withCompany and continuing until Sondheim's death in 2021.

Jonathan Tunick graduated from Hunter College Elementary School, and theLaGuardia Performing Arts High School, and holds degrees fromBard College and theJuilliard School.^[1]

Tunick's principal instrument is theclarinet.^[2] Much of his work has arisen from his involvement in theatre, and he is associated especially with the musicals ofStephen Sondheim.^[3] Sondheim said "Tunick is a standout in his field not only because of his musicianship and imagination, but primarily because of his great sensitivity to theatrical atmosphere".^[4]

Tunick's band, "Broadway Moonlighters", played in 2008 withBarbara Cook as special guest,^[5] and played atBirdland jazz club in March 2012.^[2] He has also worked as an arranger and/or conductor on recordings withJudy Collins,Kiri Te Kanawa,Brian Asawa, SirNeville Mariner,Itzhak Perlman,Plácido Domingo,Johnny Mathis,Barbra Streisand,Paul McCartney, andBernadette Peters.^[6]

In his review of theBernadette Peters recordingBernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein (2002),John Kenrick wrote: "Jonathan Tunick provides the brilliant arrangements."^[7]

He has won all four major American show business awards: theEmmy,Grammy,Oscar, andTony, making him anEGOT.^[8][9] In 1978, Tunick won an Oscar forA Little Night Music (Best Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Adaptation Score).^[9] In 1982, he won an Emmy for his work on the variety television specialNight of 100 Stars (Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction),^[9] and in 1988, he won a Grammy for his work on the song "No One Is Alone" (Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)),^[9] and in 1997, he won the firstTony Award for Best Orchestrations for the musicalTitanic.^[10]

He has also won theDrama Desk Award for Outstanding Orchestrations four times and won aDrama Desk Special Award in 1982.^[11] Tunick was inducted into theAmerican Theatre Hall of Fame in January 2009.^[12]

Tunick is married to actress Leigh Beery^[1] (also known as "Lee Beery"), who appeared in the television soap operaDark Shadows in 1971.^[13]

Sources - AllMusic;^[14] Internet Broadway Database^[15]

Sources - AllMusic;^[14] Internet Movie Database^[27]

• The Twelve Chairs - 1970 - musical director, orchestrator
• Blazing Saddles - 1974 - orchestrator
• Young Frankenstein - 1974 - orchestrator
• The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother - 1975 - orchestrator
• A Little Night Music - 1977 - composer orchestrator, conductor (winner,Academy Award)
• Columbo: Murder Under Glass - 1978 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Flying High - 1978 - (television) - composer, conductor
• 3 by Cheever: "O Youth and Beauty", "The Sorrows of Gin" and3 by Cheever: The 5:48 - 1979 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Rendezvous Hotel - 1979 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Swan Song - 1980 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Blinded by the Light - 1980 - (television) - composer, conductor
• The Jilting of Granny Weatherall - 1980 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Fort Apache the Bronx - 1981 - composer, conductor
• Endless Love - 1981 - composer, conductor
• Reds - 1981 - orchestrator
• The Shady Hill Kidnapping - 1982 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Night of 100 Stars - 1982 - (television) - music arranger
• Sweeney Todd - 1982 - (television) - orchestrator
• Alice in Wonderland - 1983 - (television) - composer, conductor
• I Am the Cheese - 1983 - composer, conductor
• Murder, She Wrote - 1984 - (television) - series composer, conductor
• Concealed Enemies - 1984 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Brotherly Love - 1985 - (television) - composer, conductor^[28]
• Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories - 1985 - (television) - series composer, conductor
• The B.R.A.T. Patrol - 1986 - (television) - composer, conductor^[29]
• American Masters - 1986 - (television) - composer (theme only)
• You Ruined My Life - 1987 - (television) - composer, conductor
• Into the Woods - 1991 - (television) - orchestrator
• Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall - 1993 (televised) (concert in 1992) - (television) - orchestrator^[30]
• The Last Good Time - 1994 - composer, conductor
• The Birdcage - 1996 - music arranger and adapter, composer, conductor
• Hey, Mr. Producer! The Musical World of Cameron Mackintosh - 1998 - (television) - orchestrator
• The Fantasticks - 2000 - music adaptor and arranger, conductor
• Find Me Guilty - 2006 - composer, conductor
• Sweeney Todd(Tim Burton film) - 2007 - music adaptor and orchestrator
• Into the Woods - 2014 - orchestrator
• Beauty and the Beast - 2017 - orchestrator

• List of music arrangers

• Jonathan Tunick at theInternet Broadway Database
• Jonathan Tunick atIMDb
• Jonathan Tunick Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2021)

• Best Original Music Score Academy Award winners
• American male musicians
• Jewish American composers
• Bard College alumni
• Drama Desk Award winners
• Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni
• Grammy Award winners
• Juilliard School alumni
• Tony Award winners
• 1938 births
• Living people
• Musicians from New York City
• 21st-century American Jews

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