Biography

Simon Franglen is a composer and producer of film, classical and contemporary music.

Franglen’s credits include three of the top four grossing films of all time and six of the top selling albums (Wikipedia). Signed to compose the avatar sequels, He recently finished the first, Avatar: The way of water, now the third on the all-time list, and will be commencing Avatar 3 in 2024. The ‘way of water’ soundtrack, including his collaboration with global star ‘The weeknd’ has already been streamed over 200 million times. He was nominated for a golden globe award for his work on ‘Avatar’ and won the ‘record of the year’ grammy as a producer on ‘my heart will go on’, sung by Celine dion for the film ‘ titanic’. Other collaborations have included multiple projects with Antoine fuqua and Terrence Mallick.

Upcoming work includeS a multi-year immersive and installation project in the USA, and a new orchestral and choral work to be premiered in 2024. he has been nominated for the 2023 Ivor Novello awards and recently won two of the international film music critics awards for AvataR: The Way of Water, following onto his win for best drama score (2021) for ‘Curse of turandot’. 2022 also included the score to Jean-jacques Annaud’s ‘nôtre-dame ON FIRE’, the dramatic re-enactment of the saving of the cathedral. He will be scoring the remarkable documentary by otto bell ‘The bad-ass librarians of timbuktu’ in 2023.

Franglen has over 400 album credits, including michael jackson, whitney houston, Celine dion. Franglen was A top line session musician and producer in Los Angeles for several years, with dozens of multi-platinum albums and singles. He started in films working for John Barry, initially on the soundtrack to 'Dances with Wolves' and then for many projects after. He created the gritty electronica for Howard Shore's score to David Fincher's 'Se7en' and David Cronenberg's 'Crash', produced the vocals for 'Moulin Rouge', programmed for the 'Bodyguard' soundtrack. He was well-known for his long time collaboration with James Horner as arranger and score producer on films such as 'Avatar', 'The Amazing Spider-Man', 'Titanic' and others. After Horner's tragic death in 2015, Franglen completed the score to The Magnificent Seven (2016), for which he received an ASCAP award and finished the composition and delivered the music to Lightstorm/Disney's 'Pandora, World of Avatar' - the groundbreaking theme park area in Florida.

Franglen has major 3D installations running the WORLD. Pink Floyd asked him to produce 3D audio mixes for "Their Mortal Remains"; this premiered at the VIctoria & Albert Museum, london before touring worldwide. Shanghai Tower commissioned him to compose a permanent installation for "The Highest Art Space In The World" (CNN), In 2019 he premiered a 90-minute orchestral and choral work "The Birth of Skies and Earth". in 2023 he will commence a 13 mile long, 2 mile wide music installation. Franglen will premiere a 17 minute suite for orchestra and choir from the Avatar: way of water score, played to picture at the Krakow International Film Music Festival in May 2023