Joe Kraemer (composer)
Joe Kraemer | |
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Born |
1971 (age 47) Buffalo, New York, United States |
Genres | Film score |
Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
Years active | 1986-present |
Website | http://www.joekraemer.com/ |
Joe Kraemer (born 1971) is an American composer. His film scores include The Way of the Gun (2000), Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead (2008), and Jack Reacher (2012), as well as Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015).
Biography
Kraemer was born in Buffalo, New York and raised in Albany, New York. His father and uncle were both musicians, and Kraemer began taking piano lessons at an early age. In high school he befriended an older boy named Scott Storm, who became a professional filmmaker. Kraemer's first film score was for a Super-8 film written and directed by Storm, called Chiming Hour. Kraemer, who also acted in the film, was 15 at the time.[1] Storm later introduced Kraemer to filmmakers Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie.[1]
While attending Berklee School of Music in Boston, Kraemer decided he wanted to be a film composer. Through contacts such as Singer and McQuarrie, he was able to obtain work first as a sound (and occasionally music) editor, before eventually crossing over into television and film composing.[1]
Kraemer's first feature film score was the 2000 film The Way of the Gun, a modern-day western written and directed by Oscar-winner Christopher McQuarrie. The film starred Benicio del Toro, Ryan Phillippe, and James Caan. Though the film performed poorly at the box office, it became something of a cult classic, and some industry insiders began to expect great things from Kraemer. [Note 1]
Over the next few years, Kraemer scored music for the hit Cinemax series, Femme Fatales, the docudrama Emerald Cowboy (2003); in 2006 he teamed up with his old classmate Scott Storm for the low-budget crime thriller Ten 'til Noon, which won awards at the film festival level; and in 2008 he scored the direct-to-video thriller Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead, written by J. J. Abrams.
In 2012, Kraemer got his chance, composing the score for the Tom Cruise action thriller Jack Reacher. Directed by McQuarrie, the film grossed more than $200 million worldwide, making it by far the most high-profile project in Kraemer's portfolio. His score was nominated in the Best Original Score - Feature Film category at the 2012 Hollywood Music In Media Awards.[3] His credits also include the 2014 film Dawn Patrol, starring Scott Eastwood.[4]
On the strength of this success, Kraemer was hired to score the fifth film in Cruise's mega-successful Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015).[5]
In 2016, Kraemer was commissioned by the Dallas Chamber Symphony to write new music for F.W. Murnau's Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.[6]
In 2017, Kraemer composed the score for the teen anthology series Creeped Out on CBBC.
Filmography
Films
Year | Title | Director | Notes |
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1998 | Burn | Scott Storm | First Collaboration with Scott Storm |
1999 | Chi Girl | Heidi Van Lier | Also executive producer |
2000 | The Way of the Gun | Christopher McQuarrie | First Collaboration with Christopher McQuarrie Also conductor |
Slammed | Michael Gene Brown | ||
2004 | Open House | Dan Mirvish | Co-composed with Andrew Melton |
Somewhere | Thomas Whelan | ||
Dynamite | Walter Baltzer | ||
2005 | All Souls Day | Jeremy Kasten | |
My Big Fat Independent Movie | Philip Zlotorynski | Co-composed with Jeremy Sweet | |
2006 | Monday | Heidi Van Lier | Also producer and actor; The Loser |
Ten 'til Noon | Scott Storm | Second Collaboration with Scott Storm | |
Room 6 | Michael Hurst | ||
Grand Junction | Freddy F. Hakimi | ||
The Thirst | Jeremy Kasten | ||
The Darkroom | Michael Hurst | ||
2008 | Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead | Louis Morneau | Direct-to-Video |
2010 | Confession of a Gangster | Kenneth Castillo | |
2012 | Jack Reacher | Christopher McQuarrie | BMI Film Music Award for Best Film Music Second Collaboration with Christopher McQuarrie Also conductor |
2013 | Favor | Paul Osborne | |
2014 | Dawn Patrol | Daniel Petrie Jr. | |
2015 | Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | Christopher McQuarrie | IFMCA Award for Best Original Score for an Action/Adventure/Thriller Film World Soundtrack Award for Discovery of the Year Third Collaboration with Christopher McQuarrie Also conductor |
Boned | Laura Lee Bahr | Co-composed with Jeremy Broomfield | |
2016 | Blood Moon | Kenneth Kokin | |
2018 | The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot | Robert D. Krzykowski | |
TBA | Cruel Hearts | Paul Osborne | Co-composed with Ian Arber and John Massari |
Faunutland and the Lost Magic | Marcus Ovnell | ||
Television
Year | Title | Studio | Episode(s) |
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1997 | Cartoon Sushi | MTV Teletoon |
1 |
2009 | Misadventures in Matchmaking | N/A | 5 |
2011 | Femme Fatales | Cinemax | 8 |
2017 | Comrade Detective | Amazon Video | 6 |
Creeped Out | CBBC Family Channel |
13 | |
Notes
References
- 1 2 3 Caschetto, Maurizio (4 February 2013). "Reaching Back to the Classic Film Score: Interview with Joe Kraemer". ColonneSonore. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ↑ Broxton, Jonathan (January 15, 2013). "Jack Reacher - Joe Kraemer". Movie Music UK. WordPress.com. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ↑ Goldwasser, Dan (16 January 2013). "Joe Kraemer scores Jack Reacher". Scoring Sessions. Warm Butter Design. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ↑ Jonman492000 (29 September 2016). "AN INTERVIEW WITH COMPOSER JOE KRAEMER". Wordpress. Retrieved 2 August 2018.
- ↑ Frog, George E. (19 September 2014). "Joe Kraemer to Score 'Mission: Impossible 5". Film Music Reporter. eFrog. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
- ↑ "SUNRISE: A Song of Two Humans with new score by Joe Kraemer, premieres Oct. 18th". Dallas Chamber Symphony. 22 September 2016. Retrieved 2 August 2018.