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Laura Karpman
Birth nameLaura Anne Karpman
Born (1959-03-01) March 1, 1959 (age 65)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
OccupationFilm Composer
Years active1994–present
Website

Laura Anne Karpman (born March 1, 1959) is an American composer, whose work has included music for film, television, video games, theater, and the concert hall. She has won five[1] Emmy Awards for her work. Karpman was trained at The Juilliard School, where she played jazz, and honed her skills scatting in bars.

Education

Born in Los Angeles, Karpman worked with John Harbison at the Tanglewood Music Center, and attended Aspen Music School and the Ecole des Arts Americaines, where she worked with Nadia Boulanger.[citation needed] She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, where she graduated magna cum laude, studying with William Bolcom and Leslie Bassett. She received both her Doctorate and master's degree in Music Composition at The Juilliard School, where her principal teacher was Milton Babbitt.[citation needed]

Career

Compositions by Karpman have been commissioned by Tonya Pinkins, Los Angeles Opera, American Composers Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, The Juilliard Choral Union, Pacific Serenades,[2] and percussionist Evelyn Glennie. They have been performed internationally.[3]

Karpman's theater catalog includes three musicals for Los Angeles's "A Noise Within" theater company, as well as underscores for dozens of classic plays.[citation needed] Among her media music credits are Steven Spielberg's Emmy-winning, 20-hour TV miniseries, Taken; and PBS's series The Living Edens (for which she received nine Emmy nominations). She has scored numerous films, television programs and video games (including music for Halo 3 and her award-winning score for EverQuest II).[citation needed] Karpman received an Annie Award nomination for A Monkey's Tale, a short film commissioned by the Chinese government, which later premiered in the US and was performed by the Detroit Symphony.

Karpman's Grammy-winning Ask Your Mama[4] premiered at Carnegie Hall on March 16, 2009, with performances by Jessye Norman, Cassandra Wilson, The Roots, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's conducted by George Manahan. With Langston Hughes's epic poem for a libretto, Karpman's work exhibited an eclectic musical mix. Using Hughes' own voice at the core of the work, this musical includes passages from Louis Armstrong, Big Maybelle, Pigmeat Markham and Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, integrated with projected images by Rico Gatson and additional archival video, as well as Hughes's own poetry. Annie Dorsen directed it.[citation needed] Ask Your Mama was released by Avie Records in July 2016.

Later, Karpman created "The 110 Project", a work commissioned by the L.A. Opera as a paean to the city's first freeway, I-110, which turned 70 in 2009.[citation needed]

In 2014, Karpman co-founded the Alliance for Women Film Composers with Lolita Ritmanis and Miriam Cutler.[5] The organization provides visibility and advocacy for women composers.[6]

In 2016, Karpman became the first woman elected to the music branch of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors.[7]

In 2020, Karpman was hired to compose the score for the Marvel Studios animated anthology series What If...?.[8]

In January 2022, Karpman was hired to compose the score for the upcoming superhero film The Marvels.[9]

In May 2022, Karpman was set to compose the score for her third Marvel Studios outing, with the streaming series Ms. Marvel.[10]

Personal life

Karpman is married to fellow composer Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum. They live in Playa del Rey, California, with their son.[11]

Filmography

Films

2020s

Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes
2023 The Marvels Nia DaCosta Marvel Studios —
2022 Epic Bill Quinnolyn Benson-Yates Red Wrap Productions —
2021 Resort to Love Steven Tsuchida AK Worldwide
The Malina Yarn Company
Story Ink 		—
2020 Pray Away Kristine Stolakis Artemis Rising Foundation
Blumhouse Productions
Chicken And Egg Pictures 		—
2020 Senior Moment Giorgio Serafini Goff Productions —
2020 Love Is Love Is Love Eleanor Coppola American Zoetrope —
2020 Paper Children Alexandra Codina CineMia —

2010s

Year Title Director Studio(s) Notes
2019 Sid & Judy Stephen Kijak Passion Pictures —
2018 Phil's Camino: So Far, So Good Annie O'Neil —
2018 Set It Up Claire Scanlon Treehouse Pictures —
2018 Inventing Tomorrow Laura Nix Fishbowl Films
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios 		—
2017 Step Amanda Lipitz Artemis Rising Foundation —
2016 Paris Can Wait Eleanor Coppola Lifetime Films
American Zoetrope 		—
2016 The Cinema Travellers Shirley Abraham
Amit Madheshiya 		—
2015 The State of Marriage Jeff Kaufman —
2015 Code: Debugging the Gender Gap Robin Hauser —
2014 States of Grace Helen Cohen
Mark Lipman 		—
2014 Regarding Susan Sontag Nancy Kates —
2013 Black Nativity Kasi Lemmons —
2013 The Galapagos Affair Dayna Goldfine
Daniel Geller 		—
2011 Something Ventured Dayna Goldfine
Daniel Geller 		—
2010 Nothing Special Angela Garcia Combs —

Television

Year Title Produced By Notes
2022 Ms. Marvel Marvel Studios 6 Episodes
2022 61st Street AMC

BBC Studios

16 Episodes
2022 From Scratch Netflix 8 Episodes
2021 - 2022 What If...? Marvel Studios 9 Episodes
2020 Lovecraft Country Warner Bros. Television Studios
Monkeypaw Productions
Bad Robot Productions 		10 Episodes
2019 Why We Hate Amblin Television 6 Episodes
Won - Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Documentary Series or Special
2019 L.A.'s Finest Sony Pictures Television
Jerry Bruckheimer Television 		13 Episodes
2016 - 2017 Underground Sony Pictures Television 20 Episodes
2007 - 2022 Craft in America 18 Episodes
2002 - 2003 Odyssey 5 19 Episodes
2002 Taken 10 Episodes
1997 - 2003 The Living Edens 24 Episodes

Video Games

Year Title Notes
2014 Project Spark
2012 Guardians of Middle-earth
2011 Kung Fu Panda 2
2007 EverQuest: The Buried Sea
2006 EverQuest: Prophecy of Ro
2006 Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom
2006 EverQuest II: The Fallen Dynasty
2006 Field Commander
2006 EverQuest II: Kingdom of Sky
2005 EverQuest II: The Splitpaw Saga
2004 EverQuest II

Awards and nominations

Primetime Emmy Awards

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

  • 2015 Membership Induction

Annie Awards

  • 2007 nomination, "Best Music in an Animated Feature Production" for A Monkey's Tale

BMI Film & TV Awards

  • 2003 won, "BMI Cable Mini-Series Award" for Taken

G.A.N.G. Awards

  • 2004 won, "Best Arrangement of a Non-Original Score" for Everquest II
  • 2004 nomination, "Best Music of the Year" for Everquest II

The Charles Ives Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters

  • 1984 won

News & Documentary Emmy Awards

  • 2008 nomination, "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music and Sound" for Craft in America
  • 2003 nomination, "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music and Sound" for The Living Edens for "Big Sur: California's Wild Coast". Nomination shared with Nancy Severinsen, Clifford Hoelscher, Mark Linden, and Tara Paul.
  • 2001 nomination, "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft – Music" for The Living Edens episode "Kamchatka: Siberia's Forbidden Wilderness".
  • 2000 nominations, "Outstanding Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming – Music"
    • for The Living Edens episode "Costa Rica: Land of Pure Life"
    • for The Living Edens episode "Palau: Paradise of the Pacific"
  • 1999 won, "Outstanding Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming – Music" for The Living Edens episode "Madagascar: A World Apart".
  • 1998 won "Outstanding Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming – Music" for The Living Edens episodes "Denali: Alaska's Great Wilderness", "Manu: Peru's Hidden Rain Forest", "Patagonia: Life at the End of the Earth".

References

  1. ^ "Composer".
  2. ^ "Premieres – Pacific Serenades".
  3. ^ "Composer". Laura Karpman. Retrieved 2022-03-18.
  4. ^ "MAMA". AskYourMama.com.
  5. ^ Burlingame, Jon (2019-03-03). "Starr Parodi Named President of the Alliance for Women Film Composers". Variety. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  6. ^ Greiving, Tim (2019-01-10). "Female Composers Are Trying to Break Film's Sound Barrier". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  7. ^ "Academy Elects Steven Spielberg, Laura Dern to Board of Governors". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-07-03.
  8. ^ Garrett, Diane (2020-10-28). "Variety's L.A. Women's Impact Report 2020". Variety. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
  9. ^ Tangcay, Jazz (2022-01-13). "'The Marvels' Lands Laura Karpman From 'What If…?' as Composer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  10. ^ Tangcay, Jazz (2022-05-16). "'The Marvels' Composer Laura Karpman Scores 'Ms. Marvel' on Disney+ (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-05-16.
  11. ^ Womack, Carolyn (2019-08-21). "History forgot these female composers. An L.A. music writer is helping us remember". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  12. ^ a b c d e "Laura Karpman". Television Academy. Retrieved 2022-03-18.

Further reading

  • Vivien Lejeune, "Laura Karpman Taken by Steven Spielberg", Cinefonia, No. 2, November 2003.
  • Jeff Bond, "Taken With Her Music", Film Score Monthly, July 2003.
  • Jon Burlingame, "Women in Showbiz: TV, Film Composer Not Confined to Any One Medium", Daily Variety, November 14, 2001.
  • Jon Burlingame, "Women in Showbiz: Composers Curry Kudos", Daily Variety, November 8, 1999.
  • "Fast Track—Composers Worth Listening to: Laura Karpman", The Hollywood Reporter, January 26, 1998.
  • Michael Kamensky, "Spotlight: Laura Karpman", The Hollywood Reporter, January 26, 1995.
  • Fred Karlin, On The Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring, 2nd edn, Routledge, 2004.
  • "Composer Laura Karpman Receives 4 Emmy Nominations", Pro Sound News, 1998.
  • Rudy Kopl, "Taken With Her Music", Film Score Monthly, June 1997.
  • Jennifer Seidel, "Keeping Score", Electronic Musician, November 1995.
  • Curt Schleier, "Composer Can't Help but Make Her Music Sound Jewish", The Jewish Transcript, June 25, 1999.
  • Curt Schleier, "East of Eden", The Jewish Week, April 23, 1999.
  • "Laura Karpman", The Advocate, May 2, 1995.
  • K. Robert Schwartz, "A Woman of Independent Themes", Out, November 1995.
  • David G. Taylor, "Duet for the Emmys", The Advocate, September 30, 2003.

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