Barr, Nathan Biography

Nathan Barr

Nathan Barr Trivia

• For both Cabin Fever and Briar Patch, he performed the entire scores playing more than 20 instruments and used no samplers or synthesizers.
• For Club Dread, he produced and arranged three of the Coconut Pete songs, and co-wrote the fourth song entitled Pinacoladaberg with Broken Lizard member Kevin Heffernan. Bill Paxton, who played Coconut Pete, sang the songs.
• Enlisted legendary guitarist Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top to play lead guitar on his score for The Dukes Of Hazzard.
• Played Glass Armonica on his score for Hostel.
• Composes and performs the score for True Blood, playing cello, guitar, piano, and prepared piano, among other instruments.

Nathan Barr Mini Biography

• Nathan Barr began studying music in Tokyo, Japan at the age of four. He grew up surrounded by eclectic music ranging from Kabuki Theater, to the sounds of his mother performing on the koto and piano, to his father playing the banjo, guitar, and shakuhachi. His interest in music was further influenced by extensive travels around the world, where he experienced music ranging from Bali's Kecak Orchestras to China's Beijing Opera. Several years later he moved to New York, where he chose to study the cello after falling in love with the Dvorak Cello Concerto. He also began playing guitar, and upon graduating from high school, received his first set of bagpipes. During the summer of 1993, he toured Italy and Switzerland with the Juilliard Cello Ensemble. Upon graduating from college, he joined the industrial alternative rock group V.A.S.T. (Elektra Records) for a short time, playing guitar and electric cello. Looking to explore a career in film music, he moved to Los Angeles in 1996, where he met Academy Award-winning film composer Hans Zimmer, who invited him to join him as his assistant. During his time with Hans, he worked on many projects ranging from the Jim Brooks hit comedy As Good As It Gets (1997) to 'Terrence Malick''s The Thin Red Line (1998). In 1998, Nathan struck out on his own after landing his first feature film entitled Hairshirt (1998), directed by Dean Paras, and starring 'Neve Campbell' and 'Rebecca Gayheart'. Since then he has scored more than ten films ranging from the critically acclaimed documentary Beyond The Mat (1999), directed by 'Barry Blaustein' for Universal Studios, to the 'Quentin Tarantino' produced Hangman's Daughter (2000) (V), for Miramax. He has also worked in television where he scored the CBS drama "Kate Brasher" (2001), starring 'Mary Stuart Masterson', produced by 'Danny DeVito' and 'Stephen Tolkin'. Nathan's latest project is the independent film Briar Patch (2001), directed by '#Zev Berman'. For this score, he performed all of the music playing more than thirteen instruments including cumbus, hurdy-gurdy, bul-bul, psaltery, and gender. Nathan is comfortable composing in many styles ranging from big band to orchestral to rock, among others.

Nathan Barr Movies

• Kate Brasher (2001) as ...
• Traveling Companion (1998) as ...
• Hairshirt (1998) as ...
• In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy (2008) as Himself
• Keep This Party Going (0) as ...
• I Don't Wanna Know (0) as ...
• The First Taste (0) as ...
• Nothing But the Blood (0) as ...
• Sparks Fly Out (0) as ...
• From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000) as ...
• Watching the Detectives (2007) as ...
• Beerfest (2006) as ...
• Going Greek (2001) as ...
• Venus and Mars (2001) as ...
• The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) as ...
• Beyond the Mat (1999) as ...
• Burning House of Love (0) as ...
• You'll Be the Death of Me (0) as ...
• Fear (2000) as ...
• Crazy Connected Thing (1999) as ...

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