Biography

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

Franglen’s credits include four of the top grossing films of all time and six of the top selling albums (Wikipedia). 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’. Upcoming work include the avatar sequels, avatar: Way of Water to be released in 2022, avatar 3 to be released in 2024, a multi-year immersive and installation project in the USA, and a new orchestral and choral work to be premiered in 2023. he recently won the international film music critics award for best drama score (2021) for ‘Curse of turandot’, and composed the score to Jean-jacques Annaud’s 2022 film, ‘nôtre-dame ON FIRE’, the dramatic re-enactment of the saving of the cathedral.

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), this required recording four interlocking 60 piece orchestras to give a true 3D experience within an array of 240 loudspeakers - 2000ft up on the 126th floor. In 2019 he premiered a 90-minute orchestral and choral work "The Birth of Skies and Earth".