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cinemediapromo
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Tue Oct 02, 2012 9:52 pm Post subject: Penka Kouneva "A Warrior's Odyssey" |
 
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Penka Kouneva "A Warrior's Odyssey", available on October 2nd.
ABOUT THE ALBUM:
An Instrumental Album with 18 action, drama and fantasy themes in modern cinematic style.
The music features live orchestra and choir, top Hollywood musicians and modern arrangements (percussion grooves and electronics). It is recorded, mixed and mastered by veteran film & game engineer John Rodd. The production values are at the level of top soundtracks such as Gears of War 3 and Modern Warfare 3 or the post-rock soundtrack to Moon.
Link to streaming excerpts of album: http://soundcloud.com/penka_kouneva/sets/a-warriors-odyssey-previews/
ABOUT PENKA KOUNEVA
Penka Kouneva is a Hollywood film and game composer. Working alongside Steve Jablonsky she composed interactive music for Ubisoft's PRINCE OF PERSIA: FORGOTTEN SANDS and Activision's TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN games. Penka has scored 12 independent features (MIDNIGHT MOVIE), 4 television films (ICE SPIDERS) and episodic TV shows (FORENSIC FILES, MODERN MARVELS).
Penka is also a Lead Orchestrator on films: TRANSFORMERS 1, 2, 3, PIRATES 3, Tim Burton's "9", SHERLOCK HOLMES, ANGELS AND DEMONS, the hit TV shows TRUE BLOOD (HBO), REVENGE (ABC), etc.
She has orchestrated on the games GEARS OF WAR 2, 3, SIMS 3, TRANSFORMERS, WORLD OF WARCRAFT, STARCRAFT II, DIABLO III, DRAGON AGE 2, LOTR: WAR IN THE NORTH, etc.
As an extraordinary Mentor, Lead orchestrator and consultant Penka has been instrumental in nurturing the careers of rising talents iZLER ("Revenge") and Philip Klein, among many others in film, game and TV scoring.
AWARDS: Aaron Copland Award, SUNDANCE Composer Fellowship, two Ovation Awards, Composer fellowships & GRAND PRIX at the Tokyo Young Composers Competition.
BACKSTORY: In 1990 Penka ventured out of post-communist Bulgaria with $150 in her pocket and a Duke University Graduate fellowship. At Duke she studied with Stephen Jaffe and Scott Lindroth. In 1997 Penka made history at Duke by receiving the first-ever Doctorate in Composition.
In 1999 she came to Hollywood with one keyboard, Mac Performa and a few hundred dollars of venture capital. A decade later, she has built a singular career, working in a creative and leadership capacity on films & games grossing worldwide $9 billion.
While still struggling to get established, she brought her entire family over to Los Angeles, put her two sisters through school (including a Pepperdine MBA program for her younger sister) and gave them a chance at the American Dream.
For more information contact: cinemediapromo@yahoo.com or @cinemediapromo on Twitter |
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