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With a broad range of creative talent, composer and multi-instrumentalist Paul Henning enjoys a versatile music career in both film and live performance. He has worked on the score orchestrations for nearly 40 feature films, including Swordfish, Chocolat and The Day After Tomorrow. Paul is also emerging as a composer in his own right, recently scoring the documentary The Town That Was, which details the lives of the 11 remaining residents of a Pennsylvania town that has had a mine fire burning beneath it for over 40 years.
In addition to his film writing, Paul also works on orchestral arrangements that have received performances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, and Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. He has helped create concert suites from the film scores, Spider-Man, The Passion of the Christ, Peter Pan, as well as multiple works from the catalogs of Dimitri Tiomkin and Elmer Bernstein. Recently, he completed over 60 band arrangements for the NBC television show, "The Singing Bee."
An accomplished violinist and pianist, Paul plays regularly on both live orchestral concerts and recording sessions. He has played violin in the Hollywood Studio Symphony on the soundtracks to Hancock, The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Wanted, among others. He currently sits concertmaster of the Golden State Pops Orchestra and has also played violin for Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli and Smokey Robinson.
Paul grew up in Pullman, Washington. He studied music at Washington State University and the University of Southern California.
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