John Van Tongeren
Also known as	JVT
Genres	Film scores
Occupations	Composer, Music Producer, Songwriter
Years active	1980s–present
Website	www.johnvantongeren.net

John Van Tongeren is a music composer, mainly for films and television series.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Awards 3 Filmography 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

Van Tongeren began his career as one of the original members of Media Ventures (now Remote Control Productions). During his time at Media Ventures Van Tongeren worked on films such as Thelma and Louise, True Romance and Drop Zone with Hans Zimmer. He also collaborated with Mark Mancina on Speed, Moll Flanders, Fair Game, Assassins and Twister.

Van Tongeren then began to compose music for television series, including Poltergeist: The Legacy and the nineties revival of The Outer Limits, which he won awards for. Van Tongeren again collaborated with Mancina the the Speed sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control, and then he worked with Trevor Rabin on the 1998 film Armageddon.

Outside of film and television Van Tongeren was asked to work on three orchestrated interludes and production for the late Jazz drummer Tony Williams' 1996 album Wilderness. Van Tongeren has also worked with Chicago, Robbie Nevil, John Parr, Starship, Jeff Beck, Quincy Jones and Al Jarreau. Van Tongeren also owns The Blue Room, a recording studio in Los Angeles.

In the 2000s Van Tongeren continued working on film scores, such as xXx with Randy Edelman, The Passion of the Christ with John Debney, and the Disney film The Cheetah Girls. He also scored more sci-fi television series including The 4400, for which he won an award. His songwriting has led to platinum CDs for The Rhythm of The Pridelands - Disney and The Cheetah Girls soundtrack, as well as hit single for Starship, It's Not over, till It's Over and 3 songs on the Wall-E Inspired by CD.

[edit] Awards

Van Tongeren has won numerous awards, the most prestigious of which have been a BMI Award and two Gemini Awards.

In 2005 Van Tongeren won a BMI Cable Award for the television series The 4400; which he shared with Tim P., Stephen Phillips, George S. Clinton and Claude Foisy. In 2000 and 2001 Van Tongeren won the Gemini Award for Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series, for The Outer Limits; these were for the episodes "Tribunal" and "Simon Says" respectively.

[edit] Filmography

• The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
• Princess Protection Program
• Twitches Too
• Wargames: The Dead Code
• Christmas Is Here Again
• The 4400 (21 episodes, 2004-2007)
• The Initiation of Sarah
• Thief (6 episodes)
• Masters of Science Fiction (1 episode)
• Wanted (5 episodes)
• Twitches
• Empire
• Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous
• Son of the Mask (additional music)
• Jesus the Driver
• Van Helsing: The London Assignment
• The Five People You Meet in Heaven (additional music)
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series (1 episode)
• Don: Plain & Tall
• The Cheetah Girls
• Malibu's Most Wanted
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (various episodes)
• xXx (additional music)
• The Scorpion King (additional music)
• Disney's The Legend of Tarzan
• The Outer Limits (54 episodes, '95-'00)
• Red Letters
• Poltergeist: The Legacy (36 episodes, '96-'99)
• The Magnificent Seven (3 episodes, '98-'99)
• Creature
• Armageddon (additional music)
• Speed 2: Cruise Control (additional music)
• Dante's Peak (additional music)
• Metro (additional music)
• Twister (additional music)
• Assassins (additional music)
• Speed (additional music)
• Drop Zone (additional music)
• Monkey Trouble (additional music)
• Renaissance Man (additional music)
• True Romance (additional music)
• Thelma & Louise (additional music)
• The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers

[edit] References

• John Van Tongeren at Movie Music UK
• About John Van Tongeren

[edit] External links

• John Van Tongeren Official website
• John Van Tongeren at the Internet Movie Database
• John Van Tongeren at TV.com
• John Van Tongeren at Allmusic