New Recording Spotlights Michael Giacchino’s Scores For These Beloved
Films
Performed by Pianists Mark Northam and Joohyun Park

(January 10, 2012) – BuySoundtrax Records is proud to announce the
release of Music From The Walt Disney/Pixar Films Up, Ratatouille, The
Incredibles For Solo Piano featuring piano performances by Joohyun
Park (The Incredibles) and Mark Northam (Up, Ratatouille) of Michael
Giacchino’s music from these beloved films.  The recording, which
features extensive liner notes by Jeff Bond, will be available
digitally on January 24th.

Michael Giacchino’s career included composing numerous videogames for
Walt Disney. In 2004, Giacchino, who had moved to TV as the composer
of Alias and Lost was hired to write music for his first feature film,
Walt Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles. -- an animated film about a
family of superheroes.  The Incredibles featured an upbeat jazz
orchestral sound and became both a critical and commercial success. In
2007, he teamed again with Incredibles director Brad Bird for the
animated film Ratatouille, which earned Giacchino his first Academy
Award™ nomination.  After tackling more adult fare, including
Cloverfield and Star Trek, Giacchino would once again be part of a
Disney/Pixar production, 2010’s Up, which would earn Giacchino his
first Oscar.

“I tried to focus on those tracks that both worked well without
picture, and presented Michael's excellent melodies in a way that
worked effectively with solo piano,” said Northam about his approach
to performing Up and Ratatouille for solo piano. “For both films, I
found that the more melodic and emotional cues were the best fit. One
aspect that was particularly challenging to do for some of these cues
was to reduce a dense orchestration—especially on faster, more action-
oriented cues, to something that worked well on solo piano and didn't
come off sounding like a piano trying to sound like an orchestra,
which of course it can't.”

Mark Northam started studying classical piano at age 4 with a focus on
jazz during his teenage years. After high school, mark toured the USA
with a number of jazz acts including his own jazz trio, and performed
with Bob Hope. After settling in Los Angeles, he attended the UCLA
Extension Film Scoring Program, was selected by ASCAP for the ASCAP
Fred Karlin Film Scoring Workshop, and went on to create Film Music
Magazine, the Film Music Network, and the Film Music Institute in Los
Angeles.

Pianist Joohyun Park was born in Kwang-Ju, South Korea.  She began
studying music at age 6. Park received both a Bachelor’s and Master’s
Degrees of Piano from Yon Sei Univeristy (Seoul, Korea) and a
Bachelor’s Degree of Contemporary Writing and Production from Boston’s
famed Berklee College of Music.  She has worked as a score
coordinator, pianist, orchestrator and assistant composer for movies
including Priest, The Informers, Drag Me To Hell, Creation, When in
Rome, The Black Tulip, and Love Happens.  She also recently performed
on the recent BuySoundtrax release Music from Battlestar Galactica for
Solo Piano.

"My starting point was the Hal Leonard's Disney's The Incredibles
piano book,” said Park. “The melodies seemed overly simplified for me.
 I created my own arrangements utilizing melodies from the original
soundtrack to round out the tracks.  I tried to stay very close to the
original sound, which was fun, bright, and upbeat."

“I come away from the project with an ever greater admiration for
Michael and his music,” Northam says. “It's been a long time since
I've seen a composer as gifted at writing melody as Michael Giacchino
is, and it was a pleasure and an honor to record his music."

Music From The Walt Disney/Pixar Films Up, Ratatouille, The
Incredibles For Solo Piano will be available digitally on January 24,
2012.

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