![]() ![]() I’m really curious myself.” – Ramin Djawadi tweet this “I’m just as curious as everybody else how this season is going to go down and how this show going to end. ![]() In addition to this extensive tour of America, he’s excited about composing music for the final season of Game of Thrones, which debuts in 2019. From the piano-based music Westworld to the piano-less music of Game of Thrones, he’s a composer who embraces classical music but practically every kind of music, from rhythm to atmosphere. His range of composing music is quite broad. “With my work schedule, I have to create some open space.”īorn in Germany to German and Iranian parents, Djawadi graduated from Berklee College of Music. Djawadi has even turned down projects in order to tour. Pulling off a tour like this requires a lot of work, and that includes finding time in his schedule. They specialize in those kinds of things.” The sound team that we have on board is absolutely spectacular. You really have to project the sound, and therefore you need to work with amplification. Normally, in an acoustic setting, the hall is designed to where you can hear everywhere. “It is very different and we work very hard on making it sound absolutely incredible,” Djawadi says. He’s aware of the difficulty in performing an arena like the AAC as compared with, say, Bass Hall. The only other orchestra that plays arenas of this scale is the Trans Siberian Orchestra. This is the second time in North America that Djawadi has presented a concert tour for Game of Thrones. This Sunday, he and his orchestra hit the American Airlines Center, performing the songs of Game of Thrones.ĭjawadi has scored films like Iron Man, Pacific Rim, Clash of the Titans and Warcraft, but he’s best known for the work he’s done for Game of Thrones, as well as the music for another HBO blockbuster, Westworld. Not concert halls or theaters - arenas where acts such as Adele, Rush and Garth Brooks play. ![]() He’s currently working on the Amazon series “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.Ramin Djawadi is in a rare spot for a TV and film composer: He’s currently on a tour of arenas across the country where an orchestra plays his music and he conducts. He has scored such films as “Iron Man” (2008), “Clash of the Titans” (2010), “Pacific Rim” (2013), and “A Wrinkle in Time” (2018). ![]() “We’ve very carefully established thematic content from season one on, and gradually expanded on that.” Because there’s a lot of characters and a lot of plots, “we were careful not to overfill it right away,” instead peppering it in over eight seasons.ĭjawadi won his first Emmy last year for his work on “Game of Thrones.” He competed an additional five times for “Prison Break” (2006), “Flashforward” (2010), “Game of Thrones” (2014), and “Westworld” (twice in 2017). “We’ve always treated the score as another character,” he explains. One of the things Djawadi did was use callback cues from previous episodes, almost like little easter eggs for fans. More than anything, the composer needed to “keep the tension” throughout. “It was the longest battle we’ve ever had,” which made it “very hard to structure and find the arc” through music. “It had more music than any other episode we’ve had of ‘Game of Thrones,'” Djawadi divulges. This installment of the HBO fantasy series featured the long-anticipated showdown between the army at Winterfell and the Night King, who brought his troop of undead soldiers to take over the world. Watch our exclusive video interview with Djawadi above. The event took place on Tuesday, May 28, at the Landmark Theater in Los Angeles. So “it was very rewarding to see that people really responded to the way we had decided to score” the episode “The Long Night.” Djawadi broke down the intricacies that went into composing that particular installment at Gold Derby’s Meet the Experts panel, moderated by managing editor Chris Beachum. “Game of Thrones” composer Ramin Djawadi reveals he “can’t think about what the audience’s reactions” might be while he’s working. Ramin Djawadi Interview: ‘Game of Thrones’ composer ![]()
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