Atli Örvarsson

Icelandic composer, Atli Örvarsson is rapidly joining the ranks of Hollywood's most dynamic young musical talents. Born into a famous music family, he has been immersed in music since an early age. By age twenty, he was already performing and writing with some of Iceland's preeminent pop and jazz ensembles. His work with the rock band Sálin hans Jóns míns won him three platinum and two gold albums in the 1990s.

Invited to attend the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, Atli moved to the United States to study film scoring and classical composition. He graduated Berklee Summa Cum Laude, and went on to receive a Master's degree in Film Music Composition from the North Carolina School of the Arts.

The winner of the renowned Pete Carpenter Fellowship for young composers, Atli moved to Los Angeles in 1998 to participate in the program directed by TV composing legend Mike Post. He was soon asked to join Mr. Post's team as a composer and orchestrator for several hit TV shows, including all three Law and Order series and NYPD Blue. In 2006, Hans Zimmer invited Atli to join his state-of-the-art musical "think tank" Remote Control Productions. There, he has collaborated with Mr. Zimmer on several scores, including Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Angels & Demons, The Simpsons Movie, and The Holiday.

In the past few years Atli has composed the scores for an number of feature films including Vantage Point, Babylon A.D., The Fourth Kind, The Code, and the upcoming films The Eagle and Season of the Witch, both slated for a 2011 release.

Source: Atlimusic.com